Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). Social Networking in Web 1.0.

Social Network 297

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Web 297

TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Simulating production environments. For this exercise, we aimed to configure every framework according to the best practices for production deployments gleaned from documentation and popular community opinion. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. Since Vert.x

Framework 560

Framework EC2 PHP Java 560

TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Simulating production environments. For this exercise, we aimed to configure every framework according to the best practices for production deployments gleaned from documentation and popular community opinion. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. Since Vert.x

Framework 544

Framework EC2 PHP Java 544

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API. Don’t Stop Believing.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318