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Frameworks Round 6

TechEmpower

The results web site has been improved with test-type and hardware-type navigation, allowing you to share links to a specific results chart, such as Round 6, Fortunes on EC2. By popular demand, Round 6 introduces a plaintext test that uses HTTP pipelining, implemented in 14 frameworks so far.

Framework 521
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Developer Focus: Dominic St Pierre, Focus Centric

YoungUpstarts

But he wanted to be able to scale his application fast in case of high demand, and didn’t want the hassle of maintaining too much hardware at the same time. When the proposal module comes online, though, the pricing will be revised – upwards – to reflect the new feature.

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Technical Signs Of A Well-Managed Business

YoungUpstarts

As businesses rely on technology more, the demand for tech proficiency and the effective implementation of solutions grows as well. You can run your databases on top of Oracle’s cloud service while keeping the computing parts of your application in AWS EC2. The use of a proxy server is another sign of a well-managed business.

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Do you believe in the Red Shift theory?

BeyondVC

Martin neatly summarizes Red Shift as defined by Sun’s Greg Papadopoulos to be: Red Shift refers to companies experiencing exponential growth in demand for raw computing power Red-shift companies tend to be Web 2.0 Think about Amazon’s S3 and EC2 which I have written about before as utility storage and processing for the masses.

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One million HTTP RPS without load balancing is easy

TechEmpower

, you''ll be able to see the other test types on Peak''s hardware alongside our i7 workstations and the EC2 instances we''ve tested in all previous rounds. Yes, on-demand capacity and all the usual upsides of cloud deployments are real. Spoiler: I feel bad for our workstations.

SEC 514
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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). AOL is in the process of rebuilding itself and emulating a little-known LA-based startup called Demand Media. Social Networking (like the web) Will Split Into Layers: SimpleGeo, PlaceIQ. I’m going to write a whole post on BothSid.es

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Do you believe in the Red Shift theory?

BeyondVC

Martin neatly summarizes Red Shift as defined by Sun’s Greg Papadopoulos to be: Red Shift refers to companies experiencing exponential growth in demand for raw computing power. Think about Amazon’s S3 and EC2 which I have written about before as utility storage and processing for the masses. appeared first on BeyondVC.