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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform. Some other points - LAMP,Net, Java - doesn't make much difference. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Server and client in Java.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

It was driven by the introduction of open-source software, most notably what was called the LAMP stack. They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing. Then they launched a simple database, management tools and so on.