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Joyent Cloud Meetup: Circonus’s Brian Clapper

Jackson West — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:32:20 +0000

Note: This was a joint meetup with the illumos community, as well so thanks for your support!

Here’s video from our last Joyent Cloud Meetup with Circonus CTO Brian Clapper. Brian ran through how they integrated their sophisticated monitoring and alert tool (which covers cloud-centric compute services, marketing metrics, financial metrics and many other areas) with SmartOS and showed us some nice demos. We got a fabulous guest appearance from Voxer CTO and co-founder Matt Ranney (also a Joyent Cloud customer) running through why he uses / loves Circonus. In general, a good crowd focused on an excellent topic – monitoring. The next Joyent Cloud Meetup is April 17 and should be a good one with Quizlet CTO Andrew Sutherland discussing how he makes his Web apps run really fast (hint: with the help of New Relic and Joyent Cloud Analytics).

Joyent Cloud Meetup: 10gen’s Jared Rosoff and MongoLab’s Todd Dampier

Jackson West — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:58:52 +0000

Here’s videos of our latest Joyent Cloud Meetup featuring 10gen’s Director of Product Marketing and Customer Engagement Jared Rosoff and MongoLab CTO and Co-Founder Todd Dampier. Jared gives a great introduction to MongoDB on SmartOS and Joyent Cloud (10gen is the corporate steward of the MongoDB open source project). And Todd provides eye-opening findings on the performance of MongoDB on Joyent Cloud. There were tons of great questions from the audience, many of whom were actually SmartOS / illumos experts in their own right. Our next Meetup is on Wednesday and features the CTO of Circonus, Bryan Clapper, talking about monitoring SmartOS public and private cloud infrastructure. I’ll have a follow up post about the MongoLab portion of this Meetup coming shortly. Stay tuned and what do you think of these meetups? Useful? Please guide us on future events. Thanks!

Joyent Cloud Meetup: Robert Mustacchi on Using SmartOS as a Hypervisor

Jackson West — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:08:41 +0000

Joyent Software Engineer Robert Mustacchi reprised his recent presentation at Scale 10X, “Using SmartOS as a Hypervisor” for our Joyent Cloud Meetup on Tuesday, January 31st. He also took the time to field some queries during the lively question and answer session. For more about SmartOS, keep up to date with the latest at the SmartOS blog. And be sure to keep an eye on our Twitter stream for updates and details about future meetups in case you’d like to join us for pizza, beer and computing next time.

What is Node? Answers from Node Summit

Jackson West — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:32:20 +0000

While talking to fellow Node.js enthusiasts in San Francisco for Node Summit this week, we asked what seems like a simple question: “What is Node?” We got answers ranging from the basic but technical to the detailed but metaphorical, and provided by a wide range of experts from companies of all sizes working in a number of different fields. Going to show that through the power of simplicity, Node.js promises a wealth of opportunity.

Here are some of the people who answered the question:

Eric Meijjer, Iconoclast, Microsoft
Isaac Schlueter, npm creator and engineer, Joyent
Rik Arends, CTO , Cloud9
Derek Collison, CTO and Chief Architect, VMWare
John Rymer, VP and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Glen Loughheed, CEO, NodeFly
Colin Rand, Associate Director of Technology, AKQA
Adam Bragg, Tagalong
Hunter Loftis, Lead Engineer, Products and Labs at Skookum Digital Works
Ben Lowenstein, Co-Founder of Colingo
Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz, Vice President, Platform Architect, Yahoo!
Paul Serby, CTO, Clock Limited
Charlie Robbins, CEO, Nodejitsu
Paul Baumgart, Founder, ProxV

Events: Joyent Node Summit Meetup Tonight!

Jackson West — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:00:12 +0000

We here at Joyent have been looking forward to Node Summit for months now, and wanted to send one last reminder that you can join us tonight for some pre-summitting at the ThirstyBear Brewing Company from 6:00pm to 9:00pm — and since we just got a new round of funding, we’ll be picking up the tab. Just let us know you’re coming.

Of course, you can also find us at the Mission Bay Conference Center for Node Summit proper tomorrow and Wednesday. And there are still a few badges left if you haven’t registered yet for the conference!

2012: The Year the Cloud has to Grow Up

Jackson West — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:48:30 +0000

Virtual Strategy Magazine asked a number of players in the cloud computing industry for their predictions for 2012. Our CTO and Co-founder Jason Hoffman offered his thoughts on what Joyent is looking forward to in the coming year.

In the cloud, we are rapidly moving from providing development environments to running critical applications in production. This shift means application must run seamlessly and predictably well.

So what does it then mean to run applications “predictably well?” And how do we augment and improve running application “well” through time?

Photo by Flickr user Creativity103.

Events: Cloud Expo West, Node.js Office Hours

Jackson West — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:09:38 +0000

This week, Joyeurs can be found at the Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara — if you’re in town for the conference and have questions about our SmartDataCenter software or our other products and services, don’t hesitate to introduce yourself. We’ll be on hand with our friends at the Telx booth on the show floor through tomorrow.

This evening at 4:00pm PST at our office in San Francisco we’ll be hosting the weekly Node.js Office Hours. With the release of version 0.6 and the new, native support for Node.js in Windows, there’s certainly much to discuss! Sign up to attend at for free nodeofficehours.eventbrite.com — where you’ll also find the information to join remotely via IRC.

Events: GDC Online, Office Hours and Web Directions South

Jackson West — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 02:45:10 +0000

The Joyent Cloud team is in Austin this week for GDC Online, one of our favorite events of the year. Why? Because it’s an opportunity to talk to some of the most exciting technology innovators out there — game and mobile application developers, including our customers like Kabam. Also? Barbecue. Drop by booth 604 on the show floor to say hello on Tuesday or Wednesday!

Another week, another chance to drop in on Node.js Office Hours. Sign in on Eventbrite if you’d like to drop by our office on Wednesday from 4:00pm to 8:00pm PDT. If you’re looking to get started with Node.js and live closer to Sydney than San Francisco, Tom Hughes-Croucher will get you Up and Running with Node.js at a session for the Web Directions South conference.

Events: Joyent Cloud Webinar, Solaris Family Reunion, Node.js Office Hours

Jackson West — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:27:53 +0000

Tomorrow morning, Tuesday, October 4th, Joyent Cloud General Manager Steve Tuck will be presenting the details of the new and improved Joyent Public Cloud for our webinar tomorrow at 10:00am PDT. Registration is entirely free, and we look forward to fielding your questions about new features, benefits and pricing.

Tomorrow evening, the SmartOS team is also hosting the Solaris Family Reunion at our headquarters in San Francisco in case you happen to be in town for Oracle Open World. That starts at 6:00pm PDT, and space is limited so register now.

And on Wednesday, October 5th at 4:00pm PDT we’ll also be hosting the regular Node.js Office Hours session. By now you should probably know the drill, but just in case you’re one of the many new converts to the power of Node.js, you can find all the details to register to attend, dial-in or chat on the Office Hours page on Eventbrite.

Joyent’s President of Greater China a Media Darling in Taiwan

Jackson West — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:33:13 +0000

If you didn’t know, Joyent is big in Taiwan — so big that our own President of Greater China Howard Wu has appeared on popular local news host Sisy Chen’s show not once but twice to discuss the technology industry and entrepreneurialism. In the most recent feature, our Chief Technology Officer Mark Mayo also makes a few cameos, as do some Tyan servers ready for standing up your own Joyent-powered cloud like our friends at MiTAC.

More of Howard shooting the breeze with Sisy after the jump!