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Anti-adblock, can it be that simple?

Anti-adblock, can it be that simple?

I really hate today’s annoying ads, but one has to feel pity on ads-supported publishers trying to make a living. With ad blockers growing…
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Michael LugassyFeb 26
Debug your team!

Debug your team!

Cultivate Conference NY 2015 had a great lecture by Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick, authors of Team Geek, which they describe…
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Michael LugassyJan 29
Carry your big logs (and metrics) to the cloud with Amazon CloudWatch

Carry your big logs (and metrics) to the cloud with Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch is a logging, monitoring and alerting service for your application and the AWS resources that run it
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Michael LugassyJan 27
Startups
You can’t go wrong with lean

You can’t go wrong with lean

Lean startup allows you test your ideas quickly and inexpensively. This is important because changes to your initial plans are inevitable…
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Michael LugassyDec 12, 2015
Support your big idea

Support your big idea

If you have good product, strategy and business model getting money is easy, just a matter of asking persistently.
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Michael LugassyDec 12, 2015
Creating a business model (warning: long)

Creating a business model (warning: long)

A strategy by itself is just a slogan. You have to translate it into a thoughtful, sustainable action and business model that is consistent…
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Michael LugassyDec 12, 2015
What’s your big idea?

What’s your big idea?

I’ve recently completed an awesome coursera course by Prof. Buck Goldstein & Dr. Holden Thorp of the University of North Carolina at Chapel…
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Michael LugassyDec 11, 2015
Listen to your customers

Listen to your customers

All companies have customers and partners. Listen to them and ask for advice, they want to provide answers.
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Michael LugassyDec 11, 2015
Planning and developing your strategy

Planning and developing your strategy

To survive competitors and sustain your big idea you have to develop a strategy.
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Michael LugassyDec 11, 2015
Development
Mobile analytics is now a “buck a million”

Mobile analytics is now a “buck a million”

Amazon Mobile Analytics lets you collect, view and export app analytics and trends.
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Michael LugassyDec 18, 2015
Developing 100M-users app from your basement? use Amazon Cognito!

Developing 100M-users app from your basement? use Amazon Cognito!

Amazon Cognito is one of those serverless computing services that are so powerful but hard to grasp.
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Michael LugassyDec 16, 2015
Ops
Things to know about Amazon SQS

Things to know about Amazon SQS

Amazon Simple Queue Service is a fully managed job queue with messages reliably stored across multiple data centers
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Michael LugassyDec 12, 2015
Why should I care about Amazon VPC?

Why should I care about Amazon VPC?

Amazon VPC creates logically isolated virtual networks with complete control over IP ranges, subnets and routes
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Michael LugassyDec 12, 2015
Things you might not know about S3

Things you might not know about S3

“If you store 10,000 objects with us, on average we may lose one of them every 10 million years or so”
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Michael LugassyDec 12, 2015
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