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Frameworks Round 6

TechEmpower

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.

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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. From day one we focused on customers.

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

Both Sides of the Table

If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. So this combination of following people you found interesting who share links drove a sort of “news exchange&# that mimicked many of the features of RSS readers except that it was curated by other people!