TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances.

Framework 560

Framework EC2 PHP Java 560

TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Application performance can be directly mapped to hosting dollars, and for a start-up company in its infancy, hosting costs can be a pain point. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances.

Framework 544

Framework EC2 PHP Java 544

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL controlled the services, taxed companies to access users and decided what was good or bad. And then came AOL.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318