Monthly Archives: January 2008

Jason is in San Diego Thursday night

January 31, 2008 – 11:48 pm

I’m down here helping with a good ‘ole datacenter. Come on down to The Field at 8ish pm Thursday night. It’s the same place we did the 2005 RubyConf party in San Diego. Feel free to shoot Jason an email if you’re going to make it and when: jason at joyent dot com

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Twitter and Joyent: Update

January 31, 2008 – 8:08 pm

Twitter has been officially off Joyent since 10PM last night. This may come as a surprise to some after yesterday’s posts here and here regarding the two companies working together. Those of us at Joyent appreciate the opportunity we had to work with the talented folks at Twitter. It is a great service. We wish [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Announcements | Comments (22)

Twittering the Super Bowl

January 30, 2008 – 11:40 pm

Biz Stone at Twitter talks about Joyent. For the Super Bowl, Joyent is providing Twitter with excess capacity — as Twitter needs it — for free. Enjoy the Super Bowl Tweeters. —Signed: The Joyeurs. P.S. Since the Cowboys are not in the Super Bowl, I’ll be Twittering about reruns of Heidi.

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Billions Served: Joyent Accelerators a Real Platform for Growth

January 29, 2008 – 6:59 pm

Mark Mayo of Joyent gave a presentation yesterday evening at a Facebook developer garage in Vancouver, Canada. One statistic from his presentation really stands out. Joyent provides on-demand infrastructure for one application serving nearly one billion page views per month. One billion. Moreover, the infrastructure cost for that application is just over $10K per month. [...]

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Joyent powers 11% of Facebook App users

January 29, 2008 – 6:46 am

In November of last year, we announced that Joyent was teaming with Dell to give away $3.2 Million in Joyent Accelerators to Facebook Developers. Our goal was to give developers the power to quickly create and deploy Facebook applications capable of scaling to millions of users. So far, the program has succeeded tremendously. Of the [...]

By Rod Boothby | Posted in Industry | Leave a Comment

New Podcast: Quad Core (Episode 2)

January 24, 2008 – 11:11 pm

This week we talk about Cloverfield, the Strongspace and Bingodisk issues, Macbook Air, iPhone update, Sun’s MySQL acquisition, your questions, and our New Year’s resolutions. Podcast feed iTunes link (thanks to J.D. Justice for providing this to us) Here’s the link to the mp3 on my BingoDisk account No music this week.

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Podcasting Now (2:45PM Pacific)

January 22, 2008 – 10:47 pm

Ask your questions in the comments. We’ll try to answer in the podcast.

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Hello BingoDisk.

January 18, 2008 – 9:58 pm

Just a quick note to confirm BingoDisk is online and good to go. Dave will provide a summary post on what happened shortly. The Systems team is focused on bringing Strongspace back online. Update coming.

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Sponsoring the RailsQuickStart Seminar

January 16, 2008 – 11:43 pm

We are delighted to announce that we are sponsoring the RailsQuickStart Seminar put on by the folks at Building Web Apps. It sounds like it will be a great class. It goes for two days on Feb 20-21. Friends of Joyent can use the offer code JOYENT for an extra $50 off. That code doesn’t [...]

By Rod Boothby | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (3)
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