During the last couple of years, a series of architectural patterns for web design software have consolidated and become popular through frameworks , which facilitate the development and maintenance of these systems. Simultaneously, servers had increased accessibility and reduced costs. Creating a web project became a far easier, faster and cheaper thing to do. However, for the project to succeed, there is still one obstacle that is not easy to overcome: scalability.

boo-box has successfully conquered this obstacle and currently has its infrastructure set up in layers capable of being interwoven horizontally, and that are sufficiently robust to serve thousands of requests per minute. Throughout this post we will present some of the practices currently in use to guarantee a good performance from Communications Systems for Social Media such as Ruby, MERB, CouchDB, Thin, Nginx, Beanstalkd.

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SAO PAULO, SP – BRAZIL (July, 2007) – boo-box, a contextual marketing company announced today a US$ 300k seed round financing deal lead by Monashees Capital, an early-stage Venture Capital firm. The funds will be used for expenses associated with the start up of the company and expansion of product line. boo-box is the first Brazilian web 2.0 internet venture with global ambitions to announce a seed round investment from a VC firm. Since the launch of its beta version in January boo-box has been featured as an innovative contextual marketing solution on several respected websites including a thumbs up appraisal by renowned technology blog TechCrunch.

About boo-box

boo-box intends to revolutionize the way publishers monetize their content, offering technological solutions that link websites content elements to marketing material and sales offers, using natural intelligence in the contextualization process.

boo-box team is composed of enthusiastic high level professionals lead by founder and CTO Marco Gomes and CEO Marcos Tanaka. Marco Gomes is an experienced programmer and former interface programming team leader for a global player in the internet advertising industy. Marcos Tanaka is a strategist having worked as a business consultant for the executive teams of some of the largest companies in Brazil.

Visit boo-box at: www.boo-box.com

About Monashees Capital

Monashees Capital (MC+) is an early-stage and growth Venture Capital firm focused on the creation of high-growth businesses, powered by innovative technologies, content or processes.With a particular interest in media & entertainment, education, life sciences and cleantech, MC+ works with long-term vision, autonomy, agility and focus on adding value to portfolio companies and its goal is to build companies that revolutionize markets, through long-term partnerships with outstanding entrepreneurs.