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New Relic Standard now Free for Joyent Customers

May 20, 2011 – 8:00 am

So a few months ago I walked over to South Park to meet An Le, New Relic’s business development superstar. Over scones at Town’s End, we talked about the challenges facing application developers — specifically the lack of good introspection tools to illustrate for developers what is broken and why — and what we could [...]

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Aware of issue with New Relic PHP Agent. Working on Fix.

May 18, 2011 – 3:36 pm

We have been made aware of a technical issue with the new PHP Agent for New Relic – we are are working with New Relic team to fix the problem as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience and understanding while we fix the awesome sauce.

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Dark Cloud Rains on Admin’s Application Parade

May 6, 2011 – 5:00 am

From time to time, I run across experiential blog posts from developers and system admins who have suffered some particularly hairy problem in the cloud. I love these stories because they are about real people with real frustrations. Their honesty provides an invaluable perspective for providers like Joyent because we can see through their eyes [...]

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Props to our Friends at Facebook Developer Garage London

March 17, 2011 – 1:58 pm

Thursday night, Greenwich Mean Time, the Facebook Developer Garage London meet for their monthly gathering of Facebook fans and developers. While us Joyeurs couldn’t attend in person, our friend and Chairman Todd Chaffee graciously introduces us to our developer friends across the pond. Todd in action: Geoff… Todd… big shout out to you guys!

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They Used to Say “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”

January 28, 2011 – 6:30 am

The old adage in Corporate IT held that nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. That might not hold true anymore, at least as far as cloud computing, according to this article in TechTarget. It’s worth the read if you’re getting into or just want to learn more about the cloud computing market. The first [...]

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Joyent’s Secret Sauce?

January 27, 2011 – 1:33 pm

GigaOm published an article on Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk in which Derrick Harris referenced Joyent and our “secret sauce”. Here is the full paragraph: Joyent doesn’t have a managed hosting business like GoGrid and Rackspace, but it is differentiating itself by catering to conservative customers that want to build private clouds. Joyent’s SmartDataCenter software brings the [...]

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Node Creationix

January 26, 2011 – 11:01 pm

Creationix is the demo app created by Tim Caswell for node.js camp. Just 200 lines of code in node.js – presented here for your enjoyment as a pretty visualization.

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Salesforce and Heroku: The Dork-Side of the Force?

December 14, 2010 – 2:00 am

There has certainly been a lot of chatter around SalesForce’s acquisition of Heroku for $212 million last week, and it certainly didn’t fall on deaf ears here at Joyent headquarters. While naturally highly biased, my favorite commentary so far was James Governor‘s thoughts from Enterprise Irregulars: Heroku is currently spreading its wings, or should I [...]

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Kicking Off NodeCamp with a Hearty Breakfast

December 13, 2010 – 11:48 pm

From left to right: Jackson, Matt, Carly, Ginger, Geoff and Emily. Not pictured: Lisa and myself. The Joyeurs on Team Marketing have been working really hard to put on tomorrow’s Node.js Camp show at the Mission Bay Conference Center. We’re really excited about helping the presenters and their hands-on workshops that will guide folks from [...]

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Riak SmartMachine Benchmark: The Technical Details

October 31, 2010 – 10:00 am

Recently Basho and Joyent entered into a comprehensive partnership to deliver Riak Smartmachines to Joyent customers. We had been experimenting with Riak since early in 2010 and were eager to benchmark its performance on Joyent and ultimately offer a robust NO-SQL solution to our customers. Along the way, we were pleasantly surprised how well the [...]

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