The Next Web Hack Battle….Here’s to the Winners!

May 9, 2012 – 12:58 pm

As part of the opening of our new Amsterdam data center, we sponsored The Next Web 2012, a really killer conference. So we did a bit of the corporate thing, sponsoring the networking lounge. But definitely the highlight of our trip was the Kings of Code Hack Battle. The TNW team ran the event and there were some amazing entrants. For the first through third place teams we offered a total of $9,000 in Joyent Cloud compute credits. And it was worth every penny, as the winners totally blew us away! Here’s the list:

1st Place – Covify. They created an amazing application that allows you to scan your CD covers and play them in Spotify. You can read more about their hack here http://hackbattle.thenextweb.com/index.php/Covify, or see them pitch at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQwfwl9dWsg&feature=plcp (as a bonus, an interview after they’ve just won http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJvtQYgwNxw&feature=plcp).

2nd Place – VersionBox. This is version control for Dropbox. You can read more about their hack here http://hackbattle.thenextweb.com/index.php/VersionBox, and see them pitch here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsZVoL9pRNk&feature=plcp. These guys stayed overnight, hacking away until the very next day. A well deserved second place and bonus points for using Node.js to power their app.

3rd Place – Electric Vampires. This is a gamified home energy savings app. You can read more here http://hackbattle.thenextweb.com/index.php/Electric_Vampires and see their pitch here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jSq9IWvshU&feature=plcp). The name is a play on the term “Vampire” appliances – sleeping or dormant appliances which remain moderately active and suck up $3 billion worth of electricity in the U.S. alone.

We also want to thank our fellow sponsors and partners for the Hack Battle. Facebook, KPN, Twilio, MailChimp, SendGrid, SkyDrive, Dropbox, Rijksmuseum, Tendril and Spotify. Free beer and pizza’s are provided by .me. A most excellent event all around. And congrats to all participants in the Hack Battle. We hope you all had a good time (and we gave you all $100 credits towards Joyent Cloud). See you all at the next event.

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Hellloooooo, Europe! We’re Live in Amsterdam, People!

April 19, 2012 – 3:11 pm


Just in case you missed our tweets and our press release (who reads them anymore?), here’s the scoop on Joyent Cloud Europe. We just lit up our first data center outside North America and its in Amsterdam! This is a Tier-4 facility with all the goodies you’ve come to expect from Joyent Cloud: all Nehalem / Westmere processors and 15k RPM HDs, all 10/40Gbps mesh network, and all the wonderful SmartOS traits (DTrace, Zones, ARC Cache, ZFS). Best of all, you can provision and manage virtual machines from the same unified customer portal or via our Joyent Cloud API.

We moved into Amsterdam in response to customer requests that we get them even closer to end users in the EMEA region. Since we are focused on helping customers deliver Real-Time Web apps in the cloud full production, any extra millisecond edge we can provide is critical. As we’ve previously announced, we’ll be expanding into Asia in the coming months for the same reasons. Customers or developers wishing to test or deploy apps with multi-DC architectures, fail-over strategies, and the like can easily do so. Pricing remains constant across all Joyent Cloud DCs and you get all the other price benefits such as the best user density per VM in the cloud, 20 TBs per month of free bandwidth (very nice if you are used to pushing data back and forth between zones), and 400% CPU bursting in real-time – at no extra charge – to get you over the hump when that big traffic spike hits.

Got questions? Ping our sales guys or our solutions architects. Many of our PaaS and SaaS partners will shortly be setting up shop in Amsterdam so very soon you can expect to, say, deploy a Nodejitsu or Cloudant or Firebase app in multiple Joyent Cloud DCs! Thanks for reading and feedback, as always, is welcome.

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DevCon5: Come See Joyent Founder Jason Hoffman Speak

April 17, 2012 – 9:13 am

Folks, just an FYI:

DevCon5 is an HTML5 Developer and Mobile Applications Conference will take place at The Network Meeting Center, April 25-26, 2012 in Santa Clara. This conference is for web developers, designers, architects as well as technology leaders and business strategists who want to learn how to use HTML5 to create dynamic user experiences and new mobile business models. The conference is a three track program comprised of a Gaming/Mobile Track, User Interface Track, and an Animation Track.  Attendees will learn everything from the implementation and execution of HTML5, to building new business models based on HTML5 Mobile, Cloud and ecommerce capabilities. Attendees will hear how HTML5 enables both the cloud and the mobile network to deliver ubiquitous applications and enterprise solutions. DevCon5 will highlight how to efficiently write code to optimize development time and deliver applications across multiple platforms. DevCon5 topics include; CSS3, HTML5, JTouch, PhoneGap, Node.js, Unity, Canvas, WebGL, building API’s for HTML5, and more

Joyent’s Founder and CTO, Jason Hoffman will kick off Wednesday’s program with a session aimed at providing attendees with an understanding of the Joyent business model and how they  are distributing data and applications to their customers.

Attention Joyent Community: Use discount code JOY to save 30% when you register here.

 

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dtrace conf: April 3 in Downtown SF. Trace that, people!

April 2, 2012 – 2:02 pm

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As with the inaugural dtrace.conf, this will be a technical conference for people who are using DTrace, expanding its boundaries, and contributing to its growth and health. This will be done in unconference style, so every attendee should come prepared to present or otherwise lead a discussion or session. Note that “just using DTrace” is more than sufficient for leading a discussion or session: if you’re ready to talk about what you found in technical detail – and how DTrace helped you (or didn’t!) – we would love for you to join us at dtrace.conf.

Register here. (Image courtesy of Brendan Gregg / DTrace.org).

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Joyent Cloud Meetup: Circonus’s Brian Clapper

March 14, 2012 – 10:32 pm

Note: This was a joint meetup with the illumos community, as well so thanks for your support!

Here’s video from our last Joyent Cloud Meetup with Circonus CTO Brian Clapper. Brian ran through how they integrated their sophisticated monitoring and alert tool (which covers cloud-centric compute services, marketing metrics, financial metrics and many other areas) with SmartOS and showed us some nice demos. We got a fabulous guest appearance from Voxer CTO and co-founder Matt Ranney (also a Joyent Cloud customer) running through why he uses / loves Circonus. In general, a good crowd focused on an excellent topic – monitoring. The next Joyent Cloud Meetup is April 17 and should be a good one with Quizlet CTO Andrew Sutherland discussing how he makes his Web apps run really fast (hint: with the help of New Relic and Joyent Cloud Analytics).

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Joyent Cloud Meetup: 10gen’s Jared Rosoff and MongoLab’s Todd Dampier

March 5, 2012 – 9:58 pm

Here’s videos of our latest Joyent Cloud Meetup featuring 10gen’s Director of Product Marketing and Customer Engagement Jared Rosoff and MongoLab CTO and Co-Founder Todd Dampier. Jared gives a great introduction to MongoDB on SmartOS and Joyent Cloud (10gen is the corporate steward of the MongoDB open source project). And Todd provides eye-opening findings on the performance of MongoDB on Joyent Cloud. There were tons of great questions from the audience, many of whom were actually SmartOS / illumos experts in their own right. Our next Meetup is on Wednesday and features the CTO of Circonus, Bryan Clapper, talking about monitoring SmartOS public and private cloud infrastructure. I’ll have a follow up post about the MongoLab portion of this Meetup coming shortly. Stay tuned and what do you think of these meetups? Useful? Please guide us on future events. Thanks!

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By Jackson West | Posted in Events, For Developers, Joyent Cloud, Media (Podcasts, Videos, Webinars), Meetup, SmartOS, Video | Leave a Comment

Meetups Galore: MongoDB & Node, Monitoring, and Making Quizlet Run Fast

February 27, 2012 – 11:14 am

Hey there. So we have some great meetups coming up at Joyent HQ. They’re a good opportunity to learn, compare notes and ask questions from the pros:

MONGODB + JOYENT CLOUD: THE MONGO/NODE.JS STACK WITH 10GEN AND MONGOLAB ON FEBRUARY 29 AT 6:00 PM

Join this Joyent Cloud User Group (JCUG) Meetup focused on Node.js and MongoDB. 10gen Director of Product Marketing Jared Rosoff and MongoLab CTO Todd Dampier will give presentations on building / scaling MongoDB + Node.js apps in Joyent Cloud and running a MongoDB-as-a-Service product on Joyent SmartOS and Joyent Cloud. Sign up here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2971069549

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Joyent Cloud Expands in the East: New Data Center Lights Up in VA

February 24, 2012 – 1:41 pm

Summary Greetings and happy Friday! We’re expanding eastwards with a new data center in the Mid-Atlantic. It’s live with customers and available for either API-based or portal-driven new provisioning of virtual compute resources.

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By alexsalkever | Posted in For Joyent Cloud Customers, For Sys Admins and Dev Ops, Infrastructure, Joyent, Joyent Cloud, News | Tags: | Leave a Comment

Making Joyent Cloud Even Easier to Use, Manage: Announcing Partnership with enStratus

February 22, 2012 – 9:57 am

One thing our customers have been asking for is technology to make it easier for them to scale and incorporate existing popular cloud orchestration and management tools. First we released our Cloud API to enable instantiation and management of cloud services from outside our portal. Next, Joyeur Kevin Chan built out a fog.io pull that made it even easier for developers and operations teams to manage cloud resources on Joyent Cloud (it’s pending merge into the fog libraries but likely to happy very soon). Today we are announcing a partnership with enStratus. They provide a cloud management and automation platform that makes it much easier to manage and quickly scale complex cloud deployments. Here’s what enStratus delivers to Joyent Cloud users:

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By alexsalkever | Posted in For Business, For Developers, For Joyent Cloud Customers, For Sys Admins and Dev Ops, Joyent, Joyent Cloud | Leave a Comment

See you at Mobile World Congress

February 20, 2012 – 2:00 am

We’ll see you next week in the pop-up city-within-a-city that is called Mobile World Congress, set for next Monday, February 27 to Thursday, March 1 in Barcelona.

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By Ginger Tulley | Posted in Events, Joyent, Joyent Cloud, Mobile | Tags: , , , , | Leave a Comment
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