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You're bragging that your SaaS app, which serves hundreds of paying customers, runs on a single EC2 instance? lol

Solid advice all around. Most techies are scared of selling because they don't understand exactly what "sales" is. You're going to be awesome at sales precisely because you're not …

Ugh, who gives two weeks notice to someone that's getting fired? At every company I've worked at, you don't even to return to your desk once they drop the hammer on you.

This whole post reads like "How Not to Use AWS" instruction guide. If you're running anything important on a single EC2 instance, you're doing it wrong. If you're logging in and ma…

Great points. Thanks! There's more than one right answer and I certainly don't have them all. My blog post was just a reflection on what I've seen be most successful over the years…

Granted, it could just be my lack of LinkedIn savviness, but it's never been a source of actual business for me (I'm the author of this blog post). The only people who actually see…

LinkedIn is a pretty insignificant part of the article. I mentioned using it as a proxy to gauge the size of your professional network, and to find local interest groups. Overall, …

I'm the author of the blog. Using the model that I wrote about, you "downshift" from a full-time job that has you on the front line, doing billable work to someplace where you're s…

The TG, Pylons, and Zope guys all joined forces under the Pyramid banner a couple of years ago. There are still people developing in each of those three projects (and I think it's …