TechEmpower

MAY 17, 2013

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. Additionally, we have added a new test type focused on writes, wherein a variable number of database updates are executed per request.

Framework 524

Framework EC2 Web Writing 524

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

“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.

Cloud Computing 188

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

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

Framework EC2 PHP Java 560

TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

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

Framework EC2 PHP Java 544

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

As I write these words I’m aware that I could practically change the words AOL and Facebook for much of this section and with a few factual tweaks it might not be noticeable to the reader which of the firms I was talking about. 18 months ago 25% of all pitches to me were ideas for how to build products around Twitter’s API.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Our chief architect, Ryan Lissack, wanted to store our data in Amazon’s new (at the time) storage product called S3 that enabled us to store all our data in their facility and we’d pay by the MBs uploaded / downloaded. At the time we viewed Amazon’s offering, EC2 as too nascent. I was dead set against it.

Startup 343

Startup Technical Review S3 Services 343