Monthly Archives: March 2007

Joyent is looking for a couple of sysadmins

March 28, 2007 – 8:38 am

Joyent manages every operational component of a large architecture: systems, routers, switches, load balancers, anti-spam devices, and storage. We’re looking for junior systems administrators to learn what it is to manage large systems, to help support customers on this infrastructure, to assist with various systems migrations and to assist with the deployment, health and maintenance [...]

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Joyent Slingshot

March 22, 2007 – 5:34 am

Introducing Joyent Slingshot Joyent Slingshot allows developers to deploy Rails applications that work the same online and offline (with synchronization) and with drag into and out of the application just like a standard desktop application. We have Joyent Connector and a select group of third party applications working under Joyent Slingshot. Joyent plans to have [...]

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Discount passes to Under The Radar: "Why Office 2.0 Matters"

March 21, 2007 – 6:34 pm

Jason and I are headed to Mountain View on Friday, March 23rd, to represent Joyent as members of the Graduate Circle for the “Why Office 2.0 Matters” conference held by the folks over at DealMaker Media (AKA: Under The Radar). Mr. Hoffman will have the stage for a little bit to tout our upcoming Slingshot [...]

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ps pipe grep Episode 12 (Champion)

March 21, 2007 – 5:08 pm

Ben, Jason, Dave talk with special guest Niall Kennedy about the origin of Niall’s name, SXSW Interactive, Ian Murdock, people using Cafes for offices, and a wee mention of Joyent Slingshot (coming tomorrow). Here’s a direct link to the mp3. This week’s music: Art Brut. This week’s highlighted product: Marin French Cheese.

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A Twitter Novella

March 17, 2007 – 8:03 pm

The Twitter service is great. I’m using it to write a novella about “Heidi” where each “chapter” must be 140 characters or less. Feel free to follow along at http://twitter.com/davidpaulyoung. Here’s what you’ve missed so far (by twit-chapter, from the earliest down to the most recent): The hot sun beat down on the snow drawing [...]

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Jason is at SXSW in Austin, and this is where I'll be

March 10, 2007 – 11:47 pm

Please feel free to seek me out (you can also direct message me on twitter here). Saturday Saturday, March 10th, 6pm Wordpress meetup party at Bourbon Rocks on 6th Saturday, March 10th, 10pm-2am Buzzfeed/Ze Frank at Molotov Sunday Sunday, March 11th, 10:00 am – 11:00 am Why We Should Ignore Users Room 18ABCD Sunday, March [...]

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My Heart Twitters When I See This Chart

March 10, 2007 – 9:28 pm

Congratulations to the Twitter team on their phenomenal growth. Twitter’s popularity is exploding. But not their infrastructure costs. They use Accelerators and our Scale services to achieve great performance for the right price. A twittering heart is a very good thing.

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PS Pipe Grep: Next Week

March 9, 2007 – 4:11 am

We just couldn’t get one onto disk this week. Next week.

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Accelerators Now Start at US$45

March 6, 2007 – 12:57 am

Joyent is pleased to announce the availability of Accelerators at US$45 and US$75 per month (or US$450 or US$750 per year). These are deployed on Sun Fire X4100s with two dual-core Opteron 280s and 285s with 16GB of RAM. Each Accelerator is its own Solaris container and its own ZFS filesystem. Here are some further [...]

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