guybrush0

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.