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Frameworks Round 5

TechEmpower

We''ve included Windows on EC2 results as a separate set of data within the results view but caution that the results should be considered preliminary. Additionally, we have added a new test type focused on writes, wherein a variable number of database updates are executed per request. View Round 5 results now.

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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. In preliminary tests, we experimented with more requests per pipeline but doing so caused socket write buffer overflows.

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Why Has Seed Investing Declined? And What Does this Mean for the Future?

Both Sides of the Table

What’s astonishing and few other than those who lived it as startups (I launched my second startup in this era) realize is how profound of an impact that rise of Amazon AWS (S3 & EC2) had on the startup market. The skills and networks inherent in making the early bet are consistent with the funds that play in this category.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

“By the way, back then it was just Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and both ‘Elastic’ and ‘Cloud’ were candidate key terms. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2. Starting again with EC2. JSON serialization test.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

This is an EC2 test run on a pair of Large instances. We ran each test on EC2 and our i7 hardware. First up is plain JSON serialization on Amazon EC2 large instances. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2. Starting again with EC2. JSON serialization test.

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

Both Sides of the Table

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).