Guest post by Batista Harahap, an expert on scaling and virtualization, recently pointed as Chief Innovation Officer at Urbanesia. A big evangelist of Android phones, and the perfect guy to ask about anything Android. He talks about mobile programming, augmented reality, location based trends, scaling and virtualization and of course, Android apps. He blogs at Bango29 and tweets a lot.

A good friend of mine got chills everytime he heard the word Scale. WTF? In a sense, in just 1 word, it represents a very significant amount of time, thoughts, plans and most definitely efforts to enable any entity to expand and grow. That’s why that particular word is accompanied by 2 other words that I’m sure will help a lot easing my friend’s chills 🙂

The first word: Engage is the primary cause of the other 2 words. To scale and virtualize is the direct effect of it. Any website will want to engage their visitors and visitors to engage them right? Websites are more and more becoming a public service hosted and ran by private entities. Here in Indonesia with more than 15% of our population now online, it will take quite the effort to be able to engage that many visitors at any given time. The climate is favoring startups right now and it’s great to be part of one.

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