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Steve Corona was the CTO of Twitpic where he grew it to 50 million visitors.
He then went on as head of Platform API at Life360 where he designed a REST API that had more request volume than WordPress and Wikipedia in 2013.
Today, he is the Principal Architect at BigCommerce where they power thousands of stores.
You may also know him as the author of Scaling PHP Applications, and author of the upcoming Nginx book for O'Reilly.
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1:40 - Steve's biggest mistake
6:35 - Internal struggles from dropping out of college
9:39 - Do you look at college degrees when hiring?
11:45 - How did you get involved with Twitpic?
16:56 - Did you have a lot of experience when you started at Twitpic?
20:33 - Does the LAMP stack scale?
22:27 - Do you just stick to Ubuntu?
23:43 - What is Nginx and why is it best?
27:10 - Why would people still use Apache?
28:54 - Steve's thoughts/tips on MySQL
48:56 - Would you recommend Amazon Web Services over other competitors?
50:02 - When is you new book being released? (September 2015)
50:09 - What content can readers expect from this book?
53:38 - Is there a waiting list that readers can put themselves on for the book?
54:48 - Any favorite books you could recommend?
54:54 - Steve's all time favorite book that is applicable to programmers
56:11 - What are you up to now at BigCommerce?
57:57 - Who would you suggest for interviewing next?
59:17 - How to reach out and contact Steve?
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