InfrastructureChoices

From StartupCamp

Title: Infrastructure Choices

Discussion Leader: IanKallen

Description: Growing out of a server hanging off of the DSL line in the garage to horizontal scaling in the data center is a road littered with land mines. Choosing the right enabling technologies for the right time in the growth cycle is hardly a science, everyone makes mistakes along the way. How well you steer around the mines, recognize when you've hit one, recover from it and absorb the right lessons are often the deciding factors of long term success.

Topics:

• Taking the right tools off the bench

• Matching frameworks and languages with application goals and skill sets

• Recognizing excessive experimentation on the one hand and optimizing too early on the other

• Consiously choosing when to measure twice and cut once and when to hack

• Technical debt and agility