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It's HighScalability Time:
- Quotable quotes:
- The unbearable cost of the cloud? @marcoarment: My experiment with Amazon CloudSearch was going very well until I imported half of subscribers' bookmarks and saw it would cost $10k/month.
- @JBossMike: Serious question: Do the Node.js hipsters enjoy not knowing WTF they're talking about when they talk about software scalability?
- @timoelliott: The #Fashion industry doesn't have #bigdata -- they call it size XXL data instead...
- Some steamy employee policies at Valve: no managers, 100% self-directed projects, crepe flat organizational structure, completely self owned.
- Good discussion on the advisability of early stage ventures developing APIs that must be supported forever. Charlie Kindel says Don’t Build APIs, unil you get more experience with your product you'll just get them wrong and be stuck with suppoprt. Pretty much everyone else disagrees, thinking the value of APIs outshines the risk. Insightful discussion on the Guerrilla Capacity Planning group.
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