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Creating an Impactful Web Presence: 5 Key Steps for Your Startup SiteĀ 

The Startup Magazine

Leverage browser caching : Caching stores web page resources on local computers, making subsequent visits quicker. Moreover, employing a Content Delivery Network (CDN) can distribute the load, reducing the server’s response time. Minify CSS, JavaScript, and HTML : This reduces file sizes and load times.

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Reduce Your Server Response Time for Happy Users, Higher Rankings

ConversionXL

Use a CDN (Content Delivery Network). A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a group of geographically distributed servers that work together to deliver online content faster. A CDN stores a cached version of your website in multiple locations all over the world. Use caching. An easy way to ensure that is with a CDN.

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Programmer Competency Matrix

www.starling-software.com

Understands how networks work, understanding of network protocols and socket level programming. Knowledge of distributed VCS systems. Code organization at a physical level closely matches design and looking at file names and folder distribution provides insights into design. Software Engineering.

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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.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

Writes stress a data store all the way to the disks, while read benchmarks may only exercise the in-memory cache. We use these for read intensive workloads to cache more data in memory. Both these instance types have a one Gbit/s network. units), 23GB RAM, two 800GB disks and a low latency 10Gbit network.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

4G/ LTE (Long Term Evolution) -the fourth generation of networks, enabling faster downloading in 4G phones (100 megabit per second compared to today’s 21 megabit/sec in 3G phones). Allot Service Gateway solutions for mobile broadband are compliant with 3G, 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness.

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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. Spray files across cheap disks on your network. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim.