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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Early years: Fueled by innovation and community-mindedness Initially, the lines weren’t so blurred, and certainly, they weren’t muddied. MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Originally a punk hacker , Billy first worked as a web security researcher, innovating new ways to both attack and defend web applications. He has a keen interest in web technologies, performance tuning, security, and the practical use of technology. He’s also the author of HTTP/2 in Action , a complete guide to HTTP/2.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. In 2007, businesses had started to become more distributed; customers were using multiple devices to access their files and there was a need to make this experience as smooth as possible.