Hello, my name is Jim Barcelona.

I am a blogger, technologist and entrepreneur that advises early stage startups on making workable and sensible technology choices.

My experience and expertise lies in scalability and architecture issues. Is your application too slow? I can help make your application faster.

List of startups that I advise:

Warpshare - I suggested a new architecture and a scaling strategy to help them grow.
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Stuff I Built For You

sitebeagle let's you know if a web site is down or if it's been updated. It also has twitter notification. (Ready for mass consumption 03/18/2009.)

frostale let's you do Active Directory authentication via a Ruby gem that can be used for a Ruby script or Ruby on Rails project. (over 590 installs as of 03/09/2011)

My Most Popular Stuff

Codebelay updates you almost every day about technology that is new, edgy, and too cool for school. It's powered by WordPress.

How to Load Balance and Auto-scale with Amazon's EC2

Coders Who Don't Job Interview: Zed Shaw

Sites That I Helped Scale