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andresdouglason Layer: the open communications layer for the internet

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andresdouglason Amazon ElastiCache - Now With a Dash of Redis

So basically we can now replace the painful SQS with hosted Redis! Yayy!

RE: Mongo. If you're using EC2 for MongoDB you're most likely doing it wrong. Not sure if there is much written about the Foursquare problem out there, maybe I'll get around to writing about it, one day. Pretty much the only company that I know off doing bullet-proof, scalable and fast Mongo hosting is http://objectrocket.com/. There's a reason Rackspace acquired them. Unless you're able to get placement of your SSD loaded servers in the same datacenters as Amazon, go with them. It's well worth your time to not muck around with Mongo.

andresdouglason Xv6 - Unix V6 rewritten in modern, ANSI C for MIT 6.828

Do students at MIT actually write an OS or do they just do bedtime source code reading?

andresdouglason Offer HN: create a collaborative tech blog?

As far as showing off nifty demos. www.HackerCache.com is coming soon.

andresdouglason Ask HN: Tips/secrets for partnering with large businesses?

great post man. Please turn it into a blog post.