Monthly Archives: August 2010

Node SmartMachines

August 26, 2010 – 10:23 am

In June of 2008 Reasonably Smart was launched – it was a server side JavaScript environment that
let you develop your web application for a PaaS environment, and deploy that code using git. The pedigree has continued with Joyent’s latest product, the Node SmartMachine.

By James A. Duncan | Posted in Announcements | Tags: , , | Comments (2)

Gearing up for Node Knockout

August 26, 2010 – 9:13 am

As we gear up for the Node Knockout challenge, Node.js creator Ryan Dahl has written up a great introduction to deploying the beta version of Joyent’s new Node SmartMachines. Just drop by No.de to get started — and make it snappy, because the contest kicks off tomorrow at 5 p.m. PDT, or midnight Saturday GMT.

By Jackson West | Posted in Open Source | Leave a Comment

Bowl Noodles

August 25, 2010 – 6:12 pm

The Grand Champion of noodles-in-a-bowl at Joyent Engineering HQ: Now you know what’s keeping us going as we prep some cool stuff for Node Knockout!

By markjoyent | Posted in General, Joyeurs | Comments (2)

Video: Publish your code from Codesion to your SmartMachine

August 25, 2010 – 11:14 am

Video: How to publish your code directly from Codesion (Git or Subversion) to your Joyent SmartMachine.

By Nima | Posted in Partnerships, Recipes, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Confidentiality Integrity & Availability – the troika of an IT security trocha

August 24, 2010 – 2:23 pm

Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) has been the foundational IT security troika of distributed IT security trochas for years, and as cloud computing is a natural evolution of distributed computing that is where we will begin in our conversation about security in public and private cloud computing infrastructures. Join Jason Hoffman (Chief Scientist) and Ryan [...]

By iryanb | Posted in Announcements | Leave a Comment

HTTP FTW

August 17, 2010 – 3:14 pm

I was reading “The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet” today and a good response on gigaom. To a number of people, “the web” = HTTP. And HTTP as a protocol on the Internets has clearly won. The fun thing to notice is that “the web” to Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff is just [...]

By jason | Posted in Short Format | Leave a Comment

The “machine” needs to die

August 16, 2010 – 3:58 pm

I was reading this. The “computer machine” as our base unit of work is a shitty unit. What I typically want is – Agility and flexibility – Performance and scale – Business continuity and taking a resource pricing point of view for dev, test, staging and DR. – Business and security best practices baked into [...]

By jason | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (1)

Oracle and OpenSolaris: A Kernel of Truth

August 16, 2010 – 6:00 am

@nevali on Twitter asked a question that we’ve heard from many customers, so I’m writing a response to everyone, though none of you need to worry. His question is, “As a long time Open Solaris stalwart, I do wonder what @Joyent’s perspective on the post-Oracle-takeover world is.” In many ways, we’re happy to have seen [...]

By jason | Posted in Open Source, OpenSolaris | Comments (2)

Grand Joyeur.com Unification

August 15, 2010 – 1:43 pm

The entire export of the old version of joyeur.com (http://v1.joyeur.com/) should be complete. If something looks out of date, let me know. Thank you!

By jason | Posted in Announcements | Leave a Comment

Joyent is hiring engineers

August 10, 2010 – 1:35 pm

Come and get the opportunity to post on joyeur.com! http://www.joyent.com/contact/jobs/software-engineer/ I actually love our job description. Joyent provides the opportunity to work with (among other technical talent) the inventor of node.js and the father of DTrace on the essential challenge of cloud computing: designing systems and services that transparently scale from one user to tens [...]

By jason | Posted in Short Format | Leave a Comment
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