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TechStars Pain Pattern

Image courtesy of Colin Sackett | Book design & publishing [http://www.colinsackett.co.uk/]. I recognize patterns; large and small; over short periods, and long. Remember those SAT questions to find patterns in obscure information? I owned those. After my 2nd year involved in TechStars [http://www.techstars.org/], a

Can't scale? Be Sure To Blame Your Code.

Can't scale? Be Sure To Blame Your Code.

Web app scale bottlenecks (software & hardware) have leapfrogged themselves a few times over the past 15 years, and I just came across a concise view of how software had to react once hardware/bandwidth reached a new speed/throughput tier back around the year 2000; http://www.kegel.com/

scaling an abstraction

The applicability of "long-tail" content applies beyond UGC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-generated_content], into applications and programming languages themselves. 37signals [http://37signals.com] has pushed the industries' thinking around building applications fast with Ruby on Rails [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_rails]. It

Selling out and crashing servers

The modern day version of major product success has become system crashes & overloads. Mainstream media associates high-demand and success with website failures. Today's "sold out due to high demand" equivalent is an HTTP 500 error, no server response at all, or "system down due

Complexity and web document delivery.

On the drive home from picking up our kids from my parent's house tonight, I recalled an exercise we went through at AOL a year-and-a-half ago or so. We were in the midst of an SEO fire-drill to ensure our dynamically generated web content was as crawlable and