Ask HN: what are the two best technical decisions you made for your startup? Looking back on your startup and its progress so far, what are the two best technical decisions you've made? Did you know they would have such a dramatic impact? I'll start the ball rolling: 1. Linode - its flexibility has helped us keep costs seriously low without sacrificing power or scalability. 2. Memcached - using it various places instead of database access helped us turn a beast of a ~12second algorithm into a sub-400ms beauty. I suspected they'd both be pretty cool but didn't realise quite how insanely fast memcache would be. |