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Events: Node Hack Day at Surge

September 26, 2011 – 6:00 pm

On Wednesday, September 28th Joyent is sponsoring the Node Hack Day at the Surge Conference in Baltimore. Just to give you a sense of how much fun it can be to play with Node.js, check out the highlights from the finale of Node.js Knockout in San Francisco last month, and be sure to catch up [...]

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Cull.tv Makes Noise with Node.js

September 23, 2011 – 2:12 pm

Cull.tv is “rebooting music videos for the 21st century” according to Co-Founder Katherine de León — though for those of us old enough to remember MTV back when all the network did was play music videos, the site is a refreshing throwback to the days when you could “turn it on, leave it on.” While [...]

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Events: Node.js Office Hours Now Wednesdays

September 13, 2011 – 7:34 pm

For those looking to catch the action during Node.js Office Hours, you’ll want to tune in to your preferred channel on the same time as usual — 4:00pm Pacific — but a day earlier in the week, Wednesday. That’s right, everyone’s favorite chance to discuss their favorite Node.js topics will be tomorrow, Wednesday, September 14th [...]

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Node.js Knockout in San Francisco: Saturday Highlights

September 1, 2011 – 3:09 pm

Saturday was a quiet day at Node.js Knockout as everyone had their heads down, plugging away at their projects. We pestered a few of the teams here at Joyent HQ — including Node Juice, replicants, Overengineers, copypastel and Minimason — who were gracious enough to take a small break for an interview. In our next [...]

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Node.js Knockout in San Francisco: Friday Highlights

August 29, 2011 – 7:19 pm

Last weekend’s Node.js Knockout was a long, strange — but fun — trip, and we’re still processing all the people we met and the projects they showed us. We shot lots of video of the action here at the San Francisco location which Joyent hosted at our office for the second year in a row. [...]

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Events: Node.js Knockout!

August 24, 2011 – 4:45 pm

Last week at the Node.js Knockout Rally we had a great time talking with some of the organizers, supporters and contestants before putting our heads down and making the final preparations for hosting teams here at Joyent HQ. If you’re in the Bay Area and your team is looking for a place to camp out, [...]

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Events: KVM Forum, Node Knockout Drinkup

August 15, 2011 – 10:27 am

We’re all pretty excited about the announcement of bringing illumos and KVM together with our open source SmartOS operating system, though possibly no Joyeur is more excited than our Vice President of Engineering Bryan Cantrill, who will be discussing the team’s “Experiences porting KVM to SmartOS” at the KVM Forum in Vancouver today at 2:30pm [...]

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KVM on illumos

August 15, 2011 – 6:01 am

This post originally appeared on DTrace.org and can also be found on the new SmartOS.org blog. By Bryan Cantrill A little over a year ago, I came to Joyent because of a shared belief that systems software innovation matters — that there is no level of the software stack that should be considered off-limits to [...]

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Node.js Meetup: Distributed Web Architectures

August 11, 2011 – 4:04 pm

Last Thursday, August 4th, we hosted a Node.js Meetup here at Joyent HQ in San Francisco where folks running Node in production presented some of their results and experience. First off was Uber Engineering Manager Curtis Chambers, who discussed how Uber completely rebuilt their system using Node to take advantage of its efficiency and flexibility, [...]

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Events: Office Hours, Big Week Ahead

August 10, 2011 – 7:06 pm

This is a quiet week at Joyent, with just our weekly Node.js Office Hours tomorrow — Thursday, August 11th — from 4:00pm to 8:00pm PDT. Register if you’d like to drop by our office in person, or join the team online via the #nodejs IRC channel on freenode.net and by phone at +1 (415) 400-0604 [...]

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