TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. In preliminary tests, we experimented with more requests per pipeline but doing so caused socket write buffer overflows.

Framework 521

Framework Software Review Technical Review EC2 521

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

“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. From day one we focused on customers.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

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. I’ve written extensively on the topic , but in a nutshell it is: an RSS reader, a chat room, instant messaging, a marketing channel, a customer service department and increasingly a data mine.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers. Many of the biggest customers wanted to be able to physically walk through our data center – how could I give up something so strategic? At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343