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Framework Benchmarks Round 8

TechEmpower

Merry Christmas web framework performance aficionados! What better way to celebrate the holidays than by cheering on your favorites as they race through a variety of application fundamentals in the biggest web platform grudge match of the season? However, hhvm trails plain PHP in the Fortunes test presently. large instance.

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Frameworks Round 5

TechEmpower

We have posted Round 5 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. We''ve included Windows on EC2 results as a separate set of data within the results view but caution that the results should be considered preliminary. It also includes some updates such as Play 2.1.2-RC1 RC1 , Go 1.1

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

Both Sides of the Table

Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0

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Framework Benchmarks Round 10

TechEmpower

We retired our in-house i7-2600K hardware environment for Round 10, and we changed our Amazon EC2 environment to c3.large Go remains a strong performer in the smaller-server scenario as demonstrated by our EC2 c3.large For a bit of novelty, we are presently testing our benchmarks on a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B environment.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. We'll see where my opinion goes after hearing the presentations. Most likely, a Level 2 platform's apps also call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing.

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

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

dealing with how digital or analog signals are actually transmitted for point A to point B), the network layer in the middle that deals with routing packets of information, to the presentation and application layer at the top end. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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