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Frameworks Round 6

TechEmpower

July marks the fourth month of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. We''ve just posted Round 6, which includes several more developer community-provided framework test implementations: Beego, Dart, Hapi, Jester, Luminus, Nancy, Yaf, Plack, Play-Slick, and Undertow.

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One million HTTP RPS without load balancing is easy

TechEmpower

As we and our collaborators prepare Round 9 of our Framework Benchmarks project, we had an epiphany: With high-performance software, a single modern server processes over 1 million HTTP requests per second. It''s possible even higher numbers would be reported had we tested a purpose-built static web server such as nginx.

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Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin

TechCrunch LA

Welcome back to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. This is where investigative reporting, enterprise pieces and analysis on transportation lives. This investment would give Uber ATG a valuation of between $5 billion and $10 billion, WSJ reported.

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. Theodore Schleifer at Recode reported a rare deep dive into the internal intrigue at a prominent VC firm, in this case Mithril Capital. We get at least a dozen at the TC offices every week, which is why we write about books so often around here these days.

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Nervana’s $400M+ Buyout Reflects Key Tech Trend in Machine Learning

Xconomy

In a blog post that recaps the Nervana story, Jurvetson writes that one of the pre-eminent engineers hired by Nervana figured out how to rework the undocumented firmware of Nvidia’s processors to run deep learning algorithms faster than off-the-shelf GPUs “or anything else Facebook could find.”.

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Startup Mantra: Hire Fast, Fire Fast

Both Sides of the Table

At the big consulting firms, investment banks and established large technology companies we’re taught to produce long reports, make sure that every document is perfect quality and that every possible bit of diligence has been done. They over think the decision framework. Check your legal framework. Good enough isn’t.

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

But a newly minted developer given access to Hacker News can develop ADD in a week's time, waste countless hours reading the opinions of professional and amateur technology opinion-makers, and nervously fidget about selecting the hippest framework and libraries to (briefly) avoid the scorn of hacker pop culture.

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