The wow effect - Gabriel Weinberg's Blog: "There is a startup proverb that says you have to be 10x better than your competition to get people to switch. A related one is that you should concentrate on being a painkiller as opposed to a vitamin"
Redis: "Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets."
Puppet Labs: The Leading IT Automation Software Solution: "Puppet Enterprise 2.0 gives systems administrators the operational agility, efficiency, and insight they need to manage dynamic infrastructure, on-premise or in the cloud."
Apache Kafka: "Apache Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system"
Finagle, from Twitter: "Finagle is a network stack for the JVM that you can use to build asynchronous Remote Procedure Call (RPC) clients and servers in Java, Scala, or any JVM-hosted language. Finagle provides a rich set of protocol-independent tools."
Func: "Func is a secure, scriptable remote control framework and API. It is intended to replace SSH scripted infrastructure for a variety of datacenter automation tasks (such as taking hardware inventory, running queries, or executing remote commands) that are run against a large amount of systems at the same time. Func provides both a command line tool and a simple and powerful Python API. It is also intended to be very easy to integrate with your provisioning environment"
A VC: The Management Team - Guest Post From Joel Spolsky:
"The “management team” isn’t the “decision making” team. It’s a support function. You may want to call them administration instead of management, which will keep them from getting too big for their britches."
Why we are much smarter than we think we are « Leo starts up:
"Bravery is what I’m working on the most. It’s downright the hardest work we could ever do. ~ Chris Brogan
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