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Lessons Learned: Great open source scalability tools from Danga

Startup Lessons Learned

Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system. MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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Lessons Learned: Continuous deployment and continuous learning

Startup Lessons Learned

Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines). The longer you wait to find out about the problem, the more likely it is to have fallen out of the human-memory cache. Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto. On commit automatically run all tests. If the deploy succeeds, repeat.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. For example, you might notice that caching gets a lot easier if you have good metadat about which queries are associated with the same entity. This is a good summary and very useful data layer scaling approach.

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SXSW Startups: Molecula

Austin Startup

You now run Pilosa, what you describe as “an open source, distributed index designed to help analyze huge datasets at UI latency.” We are also in the process of building a world class management team and a distributed engineering team of the best developers no matter what time zone they reside in. How will it work with Molecula?

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. free, distributed source code control management system. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Agile eLearning.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

The next time you needed to handle that page, you could take advantage of caching for excellent performance. For most of its existence, PHP didnt have a standard package-distribution system or very good module support. This sounds like a good trade-off, but it turned out to be a classic sub-optimization. Expo SF (May.

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Digital Elite Camp 2019 Recap: Takeaways from Every Speaker

ConversionXL

André Morys: Why “Agile Teams” Fail (And You Might Be the Only Savior). Siemens spends $10 billion on customer experience—not well spent (they actually spent it on “agile” organization, and if agile teams produce s**t, you get agile s**t). Agile teams usually focus on efficiency. You feel how they feel.

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