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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. Take a look at the list of test ideas we have collected to date. Previously, the most fundamental test was JSON serialization of a very small object.

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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. Many people go back with lots of new ideas, experience, and energy.

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Interview with Neville Spiteri, TheBlu

socalTECH

It's been over ten years that we've been thinking about this idea of globally shared media. Back in 2000, we actually tried this--to build an online studio--but the idea was ahead of its time, and failed. It comes together pretty naturally because of the experiences we are creating. How did you decide to start all of this?

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

While Facebook was built on the idea that all our information was private and shared only between friend (before they changed this after the fact), Twitter was born under the idea that most of the information shared there was open and viewable by anybody. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

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

Both Sides of the Table

While Facebook was built on the idea that all our information was private and shared only between friend (before they changed this after the fact), Twitter was born under the idea that most of the information shared there was open and viewable by anybody. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2).

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

Tech Zulu Event

What inspired you to come up with the idea? use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment. Co-founder and Lead Architect Venkatesh Venkataraman led architecture for Cisco’s TelePresence Video Exchange where the first B2B interoperability TelePresence Exchange was built.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. NEA No one owns it Everyone can use it Anyone can improve it Introduces (adds to Levels above) idea of Level 4 Platform In his mind, the key ingredient is that the there needs to be multiple platform service providers. Will it survive as long as you need?