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Web Framework Performance - Startup Founders Need to See These Numbers

SoCal CTO

I was also surprised by the performance improvement on dedicated hardware as compared to EC2 instances of roughly 10x. However, startup founders who are building applications that have: Large Audiences - consumer facing Complex Processing - examples: Matching , Social Network Analysis, Compatibility Scoring, etc.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. They also are VERY interesting for background processing tasks that take compute resources or from a storage cloud standpoint. His picture of all of the different elements you have to deal with infrastructure (network, storage, os, db, etc.),

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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. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2. Starting again with EC2. JSON serialization test.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2. Starting again with EC2. JSON serialization test.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Social networking. Matthew Jenusaitis is the CEO of OCTANe , an Orange County startup accelerator whose mission is to connect people and ideas with capital and resources. Streaming media. Streaming video. Smartphones. Windows Phone. Social media. Google Plus. Social games. Interviews. Guest Post. We came to play.

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

Tech Zulu Event

use Amazon’s EC2 for video/audio switching on commodity servers in a fully-virtualized environment. Today we run TenHands on a fungible QoS enabled network that we buy. TenHands experiences the typical challenges of a start-up business to include the desire to change the world overnight with limited resources.