Monthly Archives: September 2010

SmartPlatform and Node.js on No.de

Recently there have been multiple tweets, IRC conversations and blog articles describing our SmartPlatform and its correlation to the recent no.de service that we ran as an alpha release at node knockout. There was quite a bit of confusion as to what the no.de service is and how it aligns with the SmartPlatform and also [...]

Installing a Node service on a Joyent SmartMachine

This article will teach you how to get up and running with Node.js on a SmartOS SmartMachine from Joyent.

Node Knockout Winners Announced

The winners of the Node Knockout challenge have been announced! Swarmation eked past Scrabb.ly for the overall title, but Scrabb.ly still took home the “people’s choice” award for popularity. We had a lot of fun hosting the contest both in real life here at Joyent headquarters in San Francisco and virtually on Joyent’s beta SmartMachines [...]

DTrace, node.js and the Robinson Projection

When I first joined Joyent (but four weeks ago!), Ryan was very interested in potentially using DTrace to provide a leaderboard for the [Node Knockout] competition. I got to work, adding USDT probes to node.js. To be fair, this still has some disabled overhead (namely, getting into and out of the node addon that has [...]

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