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Amazon EC2 Beginners Workshop

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, October 9, 2008 -- Amazon EC2 Beginners Workshop. San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group. See [link] (more).

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. For anyone from California, you know there are vast differences between the northern and southern parts of the state – so vast in fact that, to us, they could just as easily stand alone as two separate states. Social networking. Social games.

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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

socalTECH

Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise. We notice there are quite a few open source companies, like yourself, here in Southern California, and in the Los Angeles area. There''s more engineering talent in Southern California than most places in the world.

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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. In looking at these numbers, seeing Cake PHP at 500x slower, Ruby-Rails and Django at 50x slower really surprised me. Several of these are B2B applications with relatively smaller audiences.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Especially when there are things like: Amazon S3 / EC2 / AWS outage this morning. Amazon EC2 - uses it for natural language processing. Would never put a user request to an EC2 instance. A couple of the more interesting ones: Amazon EC2 Google App Engine Salesforce.com Force IBM’s Blue Cloud All about end-user requests.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

SoCal CTO

The focus was S3 - storage service, EC2 - their compute cloud, their queuing system, and their flexible payment system. The EC2 is very similar to having a Linux box in a colocation facility. This would seem to be a good case for us to separate off matching and making that a more scalable operation on EC2.

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