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Choosing a Programming Language and Framework for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Closely Aligned Functional Needs The most common reason that a language and platform is chosen is because there's an existing set of (often open source) functionality that you can tap into that aligns closely with your functional needs. For example, you might choose Sencha if you are building apps that run natively on several platforms (e.g.,

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. Facebook is a “platform cloud&# provider, too. Open source became a movement – a mentality.

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Down the Stack | How Low Do You Go?

Tech Zulu Event

How do you decide between a raw infrastructure provider or platform service, and how much work do you do yourself and how much should you rely on service providers? PaaS, on the other hand, will provide a development platform (as a service) to create new applications. Of course, no one service is correct for all use cases.

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Why.Net???

Alon Schwartz

I’m being asked this by technologies, of course, but also from other, non-tech people like private investors, VCs, SEO experts, marketing guys, potential hires, partners, and any random guests that just happen to stop by and say hi to Jason (of course…). This X can be PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, or even Java.

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Why.Net???

Alon Schwartz

I’m being asked this by technologies, of course, but also from other, non-tech people like private investors, VCs, SEO experts, marketing guys, potential hires, partners, and any random guests that just happen to stop by and say hi to Jason (of course…). This X can be PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, or even Java.

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Why.Net???

Alon Schwartz

I’m being asked this by technologies, of course, but also from other, non-tech people like private investors, VCs, SEO experts, marketing guys, potential hires, partners, and any random guests that just happen to stop by and say hi to Jason (of course…). This X can be PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, or even Java.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

Authors'' Note: We''re using the word "framework" loosely to refer to platforms, micro-frameworks, and full-stack frameworks. And let us simply draw the curtain of charity over the Cake PHP results. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2. The answer may surprise you.

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