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Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass

October 8, 2010 | Jason Cohen

Guest post by Jason Cohen. Every founder frets about competition from a big company, me included. We scoff at their inability to innovate and…

 

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One month with GlusterFS in production

October 6, 2010 | building43

Guest post by Major Hayden. As many of you might have noticed from my previous GlusterFS blog post and my various tweets, I’ve been…

 

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MySQL performance flow chart

September 29, 2010 | building43

Guest post by Major Hayden. As much as some people might disagree, optimizing MySQL isn’t rocket science. There are some basic steps that every…

 

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Why I feel like a fraud

September 27, 2010 | Jason Cohen

Guest post by Jason Cohen.

“I feel like a fraud. I’ve been at this for 16 years and I still feel like a fraud. …

 

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Crash course in dsh

September 24, 2010 | building43

Guest post by Major Hayden. Thanks to a recommendation from Michael and Florian, I’ve been using dsh with a lot of success for quite…

 

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Sunk Costs: An invisible, pervasive peril

September 22, 2010 | Jason Cohen

Guest post by Jason Cohen. Many of my mistakes can be traced back to a failure to recognize and appreciate “sunk cost.” The term…

 

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GlusterFS on the cheap with Rackspace’s Cloud Servers or Slicehost

September 15, 2010 | building43

Guest post from Major Hayden. High availability is certainly not a new concept, but if there’s one thing that frustrates me with high availability…

 

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How I got 6000 RSS subscribers in 12 months

September 13, 2010 | Jason Cohen

Guest post by Jason Cohen.

This isn’t a recipe.…

I’m not saying “If you do it my way, you’ll succeed too.”  These aren’t tricks.

 

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Best practices: iptables

September 9, 2010 | building43

Guest post from Major Hayden. Anyone who has used iptables before has locked themselves out of a remote server at least once. It’s easily…

 

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Solving the “marketplace” business model

August 31, 2010 | Jason Cohen

Guest post by Jason Cohen. A sizable percentage of Capital Factory startup submissions take the form of the “marketplace.” In fact, 3 of the…

 
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