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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Finally we get to: Peter Coffee , Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com His premise is that we should be beyond having to buy servers, software, or any other infrastructure. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. Third-Party Tools Will Embed Social Features in Websites. Third-party software companies will start to offer features to websites to actually drive social features. Social Networking Will Split Into Layers.

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

Tech Zulu Event

Co-founder and lead software developer Anil Kumar was a led software engineer for WebEx. Our client software is a true browser plug-in (no Flash) that’s based on Google’s WebRTC open source project. use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment.

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CrowdStrike Extends To AWS

socalTECH

CrowdStrike , the developer of endpoint protection software and cybersecurity tools with a big presence in Orange County, is extending its software to Amazon Web Services, the company said today. The company said its software provides a single agent running on a node, which protects all of the containers running on that node.

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One million HTTP RPS without load balancing is easy

TechEmpower

As we and our collaborators prepare Round 9 of our Framework Benchmarks project, we had an epiphany: With high-performance software, a single modern server processes over 1 million HTTP requests per second. Five months ago, Google talked about load-balancing to achieve 1 million requests per second. send(aByte); } }.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. Was it massively better software, better companies, better markets? Third-Party Tools Will Embed Social Features in Websites: Meebo. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).