FOSS In A Startup
or what to do when the boss says "do it quick, good and cheap"

Table of contents

• The Holy Triumvirate
• The Product
  • Infrastructural Needs
  • The Product's Architecture
    • The Product's Architecture (Cont.)
    • The Product's Architecture (Cont. 2)
  • How To Select An Infrastructure
  • The Grocery List
  • The Little ACE That Could
  • The MySQL Devil
  • When To Develop Infrastructure Software In-House
  • And When To Mix The Two Approaches?
  • The Development Environment
  • A Word About Software Licenses
• The Journey
  • The first step - learning ACE
  • ACE Communications control - The all-mighty Reactor
  • Writing The Process Manager
  • Writing The Process Manager (Cont.)
  • The Situation With FOSS Library Documentation
  • The Situation With FOSS Library Documentation (Cont.)
  • The Local Source Oracle
  • "Don't Install A DNS Server In My Network!"
  • Testing On A WAN Without A WAN
  • Automatic System Tests
• Epilogue - When a FOSS-Using Company Is Acquired By A Conglomerate
• References

Originally written by guy keren