January 2011
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Amazon SES
So after looking through a ton of 3rd party services to handle our transactional emails, I pretty much narrowed our options to SendGrid and Postmark.. with Postmark being slightly favored due to some great feedback from some friends / tech entrepreneurs.
But, as you may have already heard, Amazon recently released their own service, dubbed Simple Email Service (SES). The short of it is:
No...
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MongoDB in Production
Sailthru did a Case Study recently on their migration from MySQL to MongoDB. It was great to see a production-setting example on the “why” and especially “when” of their use of Mongo, rather than the typical “this is why Mongo is superior and perfect.” It helps us to analyze our specific use case, and decide if Mongo is the right choice for certain pieces (such...
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LinkedIn plans to IPO this year →
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Is fruit really that bad for you?
Yes it’s true that humans don’t need fruit all the time or year round. And yes, fruit contains fructose.
But, according to Tim Ferris, fructose is converted to glycerol phosphate. Glycerol phosphate -> triglycerides -> fat storage.
Therefore, fruit (excluding tomatoes and maybe avocado) makes you fat.
I understand fruit juice, but just fruit.. maybe once a day max?
Does...
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