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This is my favorite YC startup. I remember in college trying to design and build my computer. It was just awesome to have all the parts, data sheets, and price in one spot. Sure beets an excel sheet, keeping track of data sheets, and going everywhere to find every last part! Glad to hear they hung in there and are doing well!

While I do agree that you many not be able to handle a 2400% increase in under 43 seconds I don't think this is a realistic expectation.

I don't think that all products will have to deal with the 2400% or even a 100% increase in traffic. It really comes down to what the product is. Most products don't even reach such gains. So while there is a 0 chance they can take the increase, there is a low chance (probably under 10, maybe even under 1%) that the traffic will ever increase.

Basically: optimize later.

The Mises Daily (http://mises.org/daily/) is awesome. It is a welcome break to technical articles. It can get quite in depth though. The subject is interesting given the current economic climate, and this site has so much great content. Its not a light read, but well worth diving into.

Wow, someone went for alliteration!

Good point. Never thought of it that way. Even so there are a lot that seem to make it to the front page.

ah, another chat program on node.js

Um... fix it and keep moving. Is this really worth a blog post?

Don't business plans serve a different purpose then mock-ups? Are you sure you can just switch one with the other and call it the same thing. A mock-up may be contained within a business plan, but a mock-up can't replace a business plan.

I've been using Ruby 1.9.2 and the heroku gem for quite some time now. I don't think that the Heroku gem is the problem.

Awesome! I'm looking forward to this. I've started to migrate my ruby code to 1.9.2. Good to see others doing the same, especially Heroku

This is awesome! So much better then taking a USB or downloading a file. Will definitely be using this.

Aren't most people trying to go from wireframe to webpage? lol

This may be a little picky, but this statement just doesn't make sense: :He is fundamentally a rebel—She will not be happy unless"

Where did the she come from?

You mention that some of these solution could be used in the Financial industry. I would be cautious of using these, especially since some are eventually consistent. If you are just tracking data these may be fine though.

Did someone tell TechCrunch that Stanford isn't Ivy League?

This would mean more if it came from Dane. Saying "I said two words to Dane that changed him forever" isn't cutting it for me.

Use Upstart.

What! The spec are always right! Always.

usabilitycounts.com, your site is down. Seriously usability counts.

Interesting, but I would never use the JVM in a real time system, or embedded system for that matter.

again, I love namecheap. All domains are with them

I can't believe such a small library is getting so much attention.

Interesting, but won't ever use. It also seems that it is just wrapping typical queueing systems, which I would use anyways because this only supports the JVM.

Dude, that is sick

The add-on that I've built has the provisioning system and server management portion on Heroku.

Use Heroku is the simple answer. Unless you have specific needs for background processing or do some stuff that is not in Ruby, use Heroku. This is especially true if you have not set up a production system before.

This is awesome. I've been waiting for this for a while.

Great response. I would say that developing on Heroku and Google App Engine drives practices that lead to the ability to scale. This can be done with any hosting provider, as long as you are ready and know what to do.

I agree with most of this post except that you should build to scale. Scaling isn't what you should be focused on. If you focus on this you will loose sight of the product you should be developing and responding to user feedback.