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I'm not sure "hardware and system management costs" are the biggest challenge a startup like OK Cupid faces. When you look at the cost of development for someth
by bradleyland 16y ago
I'm not sure "hardware and system management costs" are the biggest challenge a startup like OK Cupid faces. When you look at the cost of development for something like a web server, you really have to ask if that money wouldn't have been better spent acquiring customers while building your app on one of the myriad of excellent server/framework/language stacks available today.
- qaexl 16y agoWith their concept of "free-standing services" for each endpoint, it sounds like they took the idea of CGI scripts and compile the logic against an HTTP wrapper. It -could- work if the build process spits out separate binaries from a single source base. I think I'll stick with using elastic computing to scale horizontally and spend resources on customer acquisition instead.
- brown9-2 16y agoWikipedia says OKCupid launched in 2004 - are they still really a startup?