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What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

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# This is an annotated subset of the Nginx configuration from our Magento production platform @ www.hypernode.com
# See https://www.byte.nl/blog/magento-cacheleak-issue 

user app;
worker_processes 4;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections 768;
}

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/*
bolt      5000	    277963 ns/op
redis    30000	     48081 ns/op
pg       10000	    149691 ns/op

Yes, the Bolt transactions could be batched. But so too could the PG transactions, 
and the Redis work could be pipelined. And that isn't always a workable solution.
*/

import (

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <global>
        <skip_process_modules_updates>1</skip_process_modules_updates>
    </global>
</config>

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<?php
/**
 * Magento
 *
 * NOTICE OF LICENSE
 *
 * This source file is subject to the Open Software License (OSL 3.0)
 * that is bundled with this package in the file LICENSE.txt.
 * It is also available through the world-wide-web at this URL:
 * http://opensource.org/licenses/osl-3.0.php

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#!/bin/bash
# Patch apllying tool template
# v0.1.2
# (c) Copyright 2013. Magento Inc.
#
# DO NOT CHANGE ANY LINE IN THIS FILE.

# 1. Check required system tools
_check_installed_tools() {
    local missed=""

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Magento Enterprise 1.12 cluster

Scaling Magento presentation with 60 slides and notes, which was then reviewed by Alan Storm.

Table of Contents

• Summary
• August 2013 traffic
• Web hosts
• Performance