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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

When we talk about cloud computing we have to be careful to differentiate between open cloud (services the are provided solely to for the economic purpose of building a cloud business) and the “platform cloud&# where certain service providers offer cloud services wrapped around their core product. These are very different.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Simulating production environments. For this exercise, we aimed to configure every framework according to the best practices for production deployments gleaned from documentation and popular community opinion. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. Since Vert.x

Framework 560
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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. Simulating production environments. For this exercise, we aimed to configure every framework according to the best practices for production deployments gleaned from documentation and popular community opinion. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. Since Vert.x

Framework 544
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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products.

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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. It’s free so all can access – other business tools charge $30 per user/month and more, Skype charges $8 per user/month for group calling. How would it work for a casual consumer?

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

Both Sides of the Table

Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. The one major thing that Twitter doesn’t seem to have figured out quite yet is that platform thing or at least how to encourage a bunch of 3rd-party developers to build meaningful add-on products.