GIGAOM
ALLAN LEINWAND
6 MAY 08
I have a major problem with many of the Web 2.0 companies that I meet in my job as a venture capitalist: They lack even the most basic understanding of Internet operations.
I realize that the Web 2.0 community generally views Internet operations and network engineering as router-hugging relics of the past century desperately clutching to their cryptic, SSH-enabled command line interfaces, but I have recently been reminded by some of my friends working on Web 2.0 applications that Internet operations can actually have a major impact on this century’s application performance and operating costs.
So all you agile programmers working on Ruby-on-Rails, Python and AJAX, pay attention: If you want more people to think your application loads faster than Google and do not want to pay more to those ancient phone companies providing your connectivity, learn about your host. It’s called the Internet.