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On Cascading Failures and Amazon’s Elastic Block Store

April 22, 2011 – 9:29 am

This post is one in a series discussing storage architectures in the cloud. Read Network Storage in the Cloud: Delicious but Deadly and Magical Block Store: When Abstractions Fail Us for more insight. Resilient, adjective, /riˈzilyənt/ “Able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions”. In patients with a cough, you know what commonly causes [...]

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Live VMware Webcast About Cloud Application Development

April 8, 2011 – 3:27 pm

Please join VMware and friends (e.g. Joyent) on April 12th for a special live webcast about cloud application development. Each new era of computing changes the way we build applications. Current and aspiring cloud developers are invited to learn more about the next step in building cloud applications. The live webcast will feature leaders in [...]

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Facebook’s Open Compute: The Data Center is the New Server and the Rise of the Taiwanese Tigers

April 7, 2011 – 12:57 pm

Today Facebook took the great step of openly talking about their server and datacenter designs at the level of detail where they can actually be replicated by others. Another reason why I call it “great?” Well, it’s interesting that the sourcing and design of these was done by Facebook and with Taiwanese component makers. Nothing [...]

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On Bruno’s Concern About the Current Coupling of node.js and V8

February 5, 2011 – 7:15 pm

Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz (Yahoo! Fellow, VP and Platform Architect) wrote about his concerns around the current tight coupling between node.js and V8. Feel free to take a moment and read the original article: “NodeJS: To V8 or not to V8″. A reply doesn’t fit into a twitter response, and an update mentioning my reply would be [...]

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Comparing Virtual Machines is Like Comparing Cars: It Doesn’t Get to their Actual Utility or Value

November 2, 2010 – 4:19 pm

A BMW and a Yugo are both cars. In a Yugo, “carpet” was listed as a feature. Enough said. McCrory recently blogged a Public Cloud hourly cost comparison comparing Microsoft, Amazon, Rackspace and Joyent. I’m happy to see Joyent included in such great company but the comparisons are between “VMs.” As stated by Alistair Croll, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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!

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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 [...]

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