AWS Outage

April 27th, 2011 | by Santo | tech |

The recent Amazon Web Services outage was one of the most severe ones. It lasted for upwards of 3 days from some companies/applications that were delivering on top of the same. Some of the prominent services / applications partially or fully affected by it were Quora (www.quora.com) Reddit (www.reddit.com) Heroku (www.heroku.com) Surprisingly services like Netflix [...]



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HTML5 : The new Frontier on Mobile Gaming and Web

April 23rd, 2011 | by Vinci | tech |

Brief History: HTML4 has been around since 1997, and sometime around 2009 the WHATWG decided it was time to upgrade, and so they started working on the specs for HTML5 by adding on a couple of new tags and focusing more on semantic etc. The major browsers like Opera, Firefox, Chrome etc. too started supporting [...]



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Measuring and driving a SaaS business

April 19th, 2011 | by Santo | info, tech |

For someone who is looking at building a profitable SaaS business this article is a treasure trove http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/saas-metrics/ . It is very precisely written and then progressively drills down in great detail how and which numbers matter and how you can address+assess them and use them to drive the business in the right direction. Some Key [...]



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