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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

About What we do Portfolio People Blog Contact. This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Simulating production environments. For this exercise, we aimed to configure every framework according to the best practices for production deployments gleaned from documentation and popular community opinion.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

“By the way, back then it was just Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and both ‘Elastic’ and ‘Cloud’ were candidate key terms. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later.

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

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. But the masses didn’t want to blog.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

blog comments powered by Disqus. More Products. Blog Software. =undefined){ OutbrainStart(); } else { var OB_demoMode = false; var OBITm = "1241825937"; var OB_Script = true; var OB_langJS = "[link] document.write (""); } //OBEND:do_NOT_remove_this_comment // -->. Advertise on VentureBeat. most popular. most shared. Headphones.

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

Both Sides of the Table

This blog post originally appeared in serialized form here on TechCrunch. Suddenly we were all creating blogs on Blogger.com, Typepad & WordPress. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs. But the masses didn’t want to blog. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).