Monthly Archives: June 2008

A Loving Cloud

June 27, 2008 – 4:03 am

Yesterday several members of Joyent’s team attended Structure ’08. Jason Hoffman was on a panel that produced some interesting debate about whether clouds should aim to be open. The story was even picked up by the Wall Street Journal’s Don Clark in an article entitled Finding A Friendly Cloud Jason Hoffman, founder and chief technology [...]

By Rod Boothby | Posted in Infrastructure | Comments (1)

1 Billion Page Views a Month

June 24, 2008 – 3:21 am

Here’s a video detailing how LinkedIn built an application (Bumpersticker on the Facebook platform) using Rails (and C Ruby!) that serves up more than 1 billion page views a month. In my opinion, this ends the debate about whether Rails scales. Rails is a component, it is how the components are architected and delivered that [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Infrastructure | Comments (2)

Joyent Summer Sale

June 6, 2008 – 7:29 pm

Now’s a great time to get awesome pricing on Joyent Accelerators during our Summer Sale. Accelerator commits of one or two years are discounted 40%. For example, a typical 1GB Accelerator goes for $125 per month. If you commit to 12 months, you can the same Accelerator for $75 per month. And every Accelerator gets [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Special Offers | Leave a Comment

Beat Email Bankruptcy in Three Easy Steps

June 6, 2008 – 12:49 am

Step One: Take a Flight Somewhere I recommend Southwest with a couple drink coupons. More laptop room, somewhat mentally lubricated. But get on a plane and go somewhere for around two hours. This gives you enough time to order the double-cocktail, lubricate the mind, and work yourself out of bankruptcy. Let’s get started. Step Two: [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Joyeurs | Comments (1)

Plurk

June 1, 2008 – 4:01 pm

I just signed up for Plurk. Proves there’s still room for innovation in the SMS-sized multicast messaging arena. It’s a mashup of Facebook and Twitter with the different concepts of Friends (a la Facebook) and Fans (a la Twitter). There’s the idea of “Karma” which you get from your own and your friends’ activity on [...]

By grassonthefield | Posted in Industry, Reviews | Leave a Comment
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