We have released a new eBook through our sister website, LaunchAny.com, called Cloud Computing For Startups. The eBook is FREE and offers a simple and concise introduction to cloud computing and how startups can benefit.
The topics covered include:
What is cloud computing?
How your startup can take advantage of cloud computing to gain a competitive advantage
How to [...]
InfoQ has a 16 min video interview with Adam Wiggins from Heroku. In the interview, Adam discusses Ruby 1.9, the Heroku dyno solution, new add-on support, and how they support background jobs. He also talks a little about using Erlang to supplement their Ruby infrastructure. I really enjoyed the discussion on how they pre-compile, build/bundle [...]
A new survey by Forrester says that just 3% of companies use cloud storage. Read the stats from the more than 1,200 IT decision makers interviewed and our analysis.
On a recent project, I needed to be able to run a large number of background jobs. Each job would likely last between 30 seconds and 5 minutes, depending on the amount of work involved. We needed something that could do this heavy lifting, so we spent some time surveying the Ruby/Rails job processing landscape.
Many [...]
I recently launched a startup that required geofencing. For those not familiar with the term, geofencing is the finding of known locations within a specific area around a central point. An example of what geofencing looks like can be seen to right:
Here is what we needed to deliver for our project:
Track a list of known [...]
I’ve been using Slicehost for 2 years now, and as an anniversary present they have released 2 new features:
Slice cloning from running slices – You can now create a new slice from the image of a running slice. Previously backups were the only way to clone a slice
Bandwidth has been increased as well – [...]
Applications can get familiar and outdated. What worked for your first set of customers may not work for your current, less experienced ones. Or, perhaps your users are getting better at using your system and want some new ways to get the same work done with fewer clicks.
Auditing your application is an important step to [...]
I’ve had some recent discussions with some entrepreneurs about the cost and time it takes to launch a startup. These have been interesting discussions, as they have already realized that it takes more than just $10k and a month to build a startup by the time we sit down to chat.
Launching a startup requires [...]
Seth Godin recently posted an article titled “Is architect a verb?”:
Design carries a lot of baggage related to aesthetics. We say something is well-designed if it looks good. There are great designs that don’t look good, certainly, but it’s really easy to get caught up in a bauhaus, white space, font-driven, Ideo-envy way of thinking [...]
There is a great post at the 37signals blog about how they optimized Basecamp using New Relic. One thing I found most interesting:
MySQL optimizations: We’ve been working with a MySQL performance consultant to help us optimize our database calls and queries. We’re still early in the process but we’ve learned a lot so far.
As with [...]
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