StartupDigest Reading List – February 17, 2012

17/02/2012

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What You Need to Read This Week

On Business Madness
By Alex Payne | More articles on leading

An engineer’s view on business by Alex, who was an engineer at Twitter and started Simple.

 

 

Caching Tutorial
By Mark Nottingham | More articles on coding

Caching is one of the best ways to speed up performance for a semi-static application, but actually implementing it well requires more than just plugging in a cache gem. Mark Nottingham of Rackspace walks through how to set up caching well in this detailed tutorial.

 

The Management Team
By Joel Spolsky | More articles on leading

Think of your management team as the support team for your company.

 

Post-Mortems For Ten Products I’ve Built
By Dana Levine | More articles on failing

A candid assessment on the failure of 10 early stage products. Good to get a glimpse into what failure looks like and what you learn from it.

 

If I were an Architect
By Brian Marick | More articles on coding

A lean startup builds features and iterates quickly, but a well architected system looks like it was built with the foresight of every feature and not a clock-cycle more. How does a good systems architect balance these two opposing priorities?

 

Between failure and Facebook
By Chris Dixon | More articles on attitudes

The best thing about startups is you get to work with great people on interesting projects even if the startup doesn’t turn into Facebook.

 

[Video] Ryan Dahl on Node.js
By Ryan Dahl | More startup videos

Ryan Dahl talks about the history of Node and why he created it.

 

[Video] Simon Sinek on Meaning
By Simon Sinek | More startup videos

People don’t buy what you do. They buy why you do it.

 

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StartupDigest Cloud – October 7, 2011

7/10/2011

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Cloud, the members-only guide to what you need to read in the cloud technology community every week.
 
This week’s edition focuses on Rackspace letting go of key components of the OpenStack Linux-for-the-cloud initiative it is helping to lead, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiling a public cloud service that will run its Fusion Applications and others, The Linux Foundation adding three new companies to its membership list, the release of an update for Micro Cloud Foundry with PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ, Red Hat buying Gluster and its open-source storage know-how, and vSphere 5. 
 
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What You Need to Read This Week

Rackspace spins up OpenStack Foundation
By Gavin Clarke, The Register

 

Creators of the OpenStack community decide to spin the trademarks and copyrights for project into a foundation.

 

Ellison unveils new Cloud, trashes Salesforce.com
By Chris Kanaracus, Computerworld

Ellison claims multi-tenancy is a bad idea. Not sure if he believes it, or if Oracle doesn’t want to lose license revenue when Enterprises move to the Cloud.

 

Cloud players move to strengthen the link between free open source software and the cloud.

 

Micro Cloud Foundry, the desktop developer version of VMware’s Cloud Foundry has a new version with additional services.

 

Open source leader Red Hat expands its footprint into the file system space.

 

I/O holds up the traffic in virtual systems
By Trevor Pott, The Register

Discussion on how virtualization is pushing the limits on storage.

 

 

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