Monthly Archives: April 2007

Joyent Announces Sun Hosting Partnership and New Hosting Service Discounts for Startups

April 30, 2007 – 2:51 am

Sun has put together a great program called Sun Startup Essentials where startup companies can gain access to Sun technologies, software and services for either free, or via sharply discounted rates. We are pleased as punch to be named as one of Sun’s two preferred Hosting providers, (though we would prefer to be called the [...]

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OK nginx is cool

April 25, 2007 – 12:12 am

For the simple reason that it’s the only static web server I’ve seen that supports Solaris’s Event Ports events { worker_connections 1024; use eventport; } I’m cutting over the ton of static servers we have to it. If you’re interested in a x86/64 build for Solaris http://assets1.joyent.com/opt-nginx-amd64-build.tgz http://assets1.joyent.com/opt-pcre7-amd64-build.tgz Just drop it in place $ ln [...]

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Solaris, DTrace and Rails

April 24, 2007 – 10:45 pm

We committed ourselves to Solaris as our base operating system two years ago as Solaris was becoming OpenSolaris. We needed a solid operating system that was 32/64bit, can manage lots of CPUs and RAM, one that we could contribute to, and we realized that three features would be a competitive advantage if we became experts [...]

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It is the last Tuesday of the month.

April 24, 2007 – 7:50 pm

Know what that means? It is Taco Wings Tuesday time! Several of us are attending the MySQL Conference & Expo today, so it was suggested we do our little meetup down there to catch up with some old friends and meet new peeps in town (thanks for the idea Niall). We will be squatting in [...]

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ps pipe grep: Episode 14 (sudo find -f / | wc -l)

April 23, 2007 – 10:38 pm

Ben, Jason, Dave talk about the new Ubuntu Feisty and Fawn, Rails Performance, 5 Billion Files on Amazon S3, Statsaholic and Amazon. Here’s a direct link to the mp3. This week’s music: Jon Brion (from a Chicago Public Radio appearance on Sound Opinions, Show #32).

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Separated at birth?

April 21, 2007 – 4:47 pm

I think so. Photo credit Scott Beale / Laughing Squid.

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On Accelerators

April 19, 2007 – 3:35 am

Fundamental Philosophy and Origin Accelerators rose from two needs: a standardized stack capable of serving our own growing applications and the appearance last year of large companies and startups needing “enterprise rails”. Our applications, like Strongspace and the Joyent Connector are over 2 years old now, were some of the earliest revenue-generating Rails applications and [...]

By jason | Posted in Infrastructure | Comments (6)

Joyent To Offer Open Source Version of Slingshot

April 17, 2007 – 6:39 pm

When Slingshot ships, Joyent will use a dual license model similar to Trolltech, MySQL, and Sleepycat. Open Source and/or Free Slingshot will be open-sourced under the GPL and available to anyone with a publicly available service that is free (advertising is “ok”) running on the Rails platform. An example of this type of application is [...]

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How to completely ruin a great piece of server kit (regarding the Sun X4200 M2)

April 17, 2007 – 4:26 am

Here’s how you do it. First, you take what is considered a pinnacle of x86 server design, the glorious x4200 where every single chip has been selected for maximum reliability and performance. Like, say, the quad on-board Intel Gigabit Ethernet chips. Then, you create a new revision called the x4200 “M2” and replace the first [...]

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Side of Mayo: Episode 1

April 12, 2007 – 4:29 pm

Mark Mayo on: Why does Joyent use F5 load balancers? How F5 load balancers help us make mongrels better F5 iRules Solaris and iSCSI: the problems with the iSCSI target Solaris and the dual license (CDDL and GPL): the problems for the development community Does the Linux community care about what’s happening in OpenSolaris? The [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Podcast | Comments (8)
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