Author Archives: Scott

How I learned to stop worrying and love the unicorn…

It’s been said before. Unicorn is awesome. Here at TeachStreet, we’ve had a pretty good web server setup since our launch 3 years ago, which is mongrel + nginx. When we first looked at the hosting options for rails, fastcgi … Continue reading

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How to use Amazon’s S3 web service for Scaling Image Hosting

Most startups have been there – you have a simple site, and you want to have users upload photos of themselves or something else to share.  We were there as well just a few years ago, when building out the … Continue reading

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