Monthly Archives: July 2010

Bryan on Hello’ing Joyent and node.js

July 30, 2010 – 1:23 pm

One can view node.js as being to Joyent was Java was to Sun: transforming the company from one confined to a certain layer into a true systems company that innovates up and down the stack. Heady enough, but if anything this analogy understates the case: Joyent’s development of node.js is not merely an outgrowth of [...]

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Welcome Layerboom!

July 29, 2010 – 12:34 am

The official PR is here, but I wanted to say welcome to the Layerboom engineers who have joined us in the Vancouver office. It’s worth noting that The Cambie is not in fact our office, but a dandy place for a beer and snack. -Mark

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Bryan is now a Joyeur

July 28, 2010 – 1:07 pm

We announced today (a day early thanks to a certain tweeting analyst) that Bryan Cantrill is coming on to be our new VP of Engineering. And along with other neat-o additions, we’re working to get some fun things going. Here’s a fun old post from 2007, when Bryan and I would walk around SF startups [...]

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Yahoo Post: “Multi-Core HTTP Server with NodeJS”

July 20, 2010 – 3:17 pm

The Yahoo! Developer Blog has a nice post about node.js on how they’re running node.js A good comment on news ycombinator: Node.js lets you write server applications in a server container that can handle tens of thousands of concurrent connections in a loosely typed language like Javascript which lets you code faster. It uses the [...]

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EMC bought Greenplum

July 7, 2010 – 3:36 pm

EMC said today that it will acquire private data warehousing company Greenplum in an all-cash transaction, though the terms of the deal were not released. It said that Greenplum will “form the foundation of a new data computing product division within EMC’s Information Infrastructure business.” It’s no secret that digital data is on the rise, [...]

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On Solaris

July 2, 2010 – 1:50 pm

Over the years that I’ve been developing on unix platforms I’ve come in contact with quite a few… Linux (from 2.2 upwards), FreeBSD (version 4 upwards), Solaris (8, 9, 10 on both SPARC and x86), OS X, AIX, HPUX and even VMS. Even though I’ve come into contact with these I’ve not really gotten to [...]

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