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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Some other points - LAMP,Net, Java - doesn't make much difference. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. PIM based on Java that would be up-to-date on all your devices.

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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. I’m just in awe of what they’ve enabled and baffled that the media doesn’t give this more focus.