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Signal Sciences: Protecting Web Apps In The Era Of DevOps, with Andrew Peterson

socalTECH

In today's world of web application development, speed is everything. Developers are now turning out code and releasing it live to the world in near real time--what is called DevOps and Agile development. With the rise of the cloud and Agile, it's really changed how developer are coding their websites.

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

This gives us a point of view about servers and modern web application development that isn't terribly common these days: each server in your cluster should be able to process a significant amount of user load. Imagine your prototyping is over, and you're building a production system. Easy stuff should be easy.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

Both Sides of the Table

Burstly, a Santa Monica based company, provides an open and free ad management platform that helps mobile application developers better monetize their inventory. As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing. I like that.

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Above the Cloud with Dave Linthicum | Shifting Perspectives on SaaS and Enterprise IT

Tech Zulu Event

In this role, Alex was responsible for developing HostPro’s shared, dedicated and managed businesses with 430 employees in sales, marketing, engineering, and product development. Additionally, he has extensive application development, web hosting, and data center build-out and management experience.

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Interview with Bruce Nash, OpusData

socalTECH

What I found out very quickly, is there is a tremendous demand among the independent production community for this information. It turned out that there was tremendous interest in getting financial information about the movie industry. We've found there is a big community of people who need access to our data.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

A healthy eco-system of application developers is required for any software or Internet company to be massively successful. And if they can monetize their follower base then they have an incentive to grow their base, Tweet more, engage more and write better quality Tweets. All of them are really sharp on product and market.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

Both Sides of the Table

First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter. It also means that the publisher (person writing the status update) can share in the monetization.