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Frameworks Round 6

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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. By popular demand, Round 6 introduces a plaintext test that uses HTTP pipelining, implemented in 14 frameworks so far.

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One million HTTP RPS without load balancing is easy

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It''s possible even higher numbers would be reported had we tested a purpose-built static web server such as nginx. It just happens to be quite quick at HTTP. , you''ll be able to see the other test types on Peak''s hardware alongside our i7 workstations and the EC2 instances we''ve tested in all previous rounds.

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

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At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). AOL is in the process of rebuilding itself and emulating a little-known LA-based startup called Demand Media. Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. Social Networking (like the web) Will Split Into Layers: SimpleGeo, PlaceIQ.