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A Bit More About the New Joyent Cloud API

January 3, 2012 – 11:27 am

As part of SmartDataCenter 6.5, we’ve introduced something I’m pretty excited about sharing, which is an open signing protocol for HTTP. We’re using it in what we call CloudAPI, which is the REST API that powers our customer portal, and is exposed to you to create your own applications. In this post I’ll go over [...]

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Virtual Machines and Transactions

November 16, 2010 – 12:31 am

The other day Jason wrote a post discussing how comparing any two virtual machines is similar to comparing cars — there is such a wide range between the two things being compared that it’s not just car versus car,  but apple versus orange. As Jason rightly points out, VMs shouldn’t really matter.  When a developer builds [...]

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Node SmartMachines

August 26, 2010 – 10:23 am

In June of 2008 Reasonably Smart was launched – it was a server side JavaScript environment that
let you develop your web application for a PaaS environment, and deploy that code using git. The pedigree has continued with Joyent’s latest product, the Node SmartMachine.

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JSConf 2009 post-conference wrap-up

April 29, 2009 – 7:20 pm

As I mentioned last week, Joyent and Sun Startup Essentials teamed-up to sponsor the JSConf in Arlington, VA last week. I got back from the conference on Sunday, happy to be home, but full of energy from the conference. It was a great two days – lots of interesting people and lots of interesting talks. Chris and Laura Williams did an amazing job of putting on such a great event – the quality of the conference everything surrounding the conference would suggest that they were old hands at arranging things like this – apparently not the case however! Thanks, and well done, again.

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JSConf 2009

April 21, 2009 – 2:34 pm

I remember back in 2006 my good friend Greg McCarroll was involved in setting up the first London JavaScript Night – an evening of technical talks about anything JavaScript related in London. Anyway, it was a great night, well attended – about 50 people, which was way more people than was expected at the time. [...]

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Speaking at the FSF Meeting, Libre Planet '09

March 18, 2009 – 3:38 pm

On Saturday and Sunday I’m going to be at the FSF Meeting in Cambridge MA where I’m going to talk about The Free and Open Cloud. Of course I’m not talking about Free-as-in-Beer here, but instead software freedom, and how the cloud is a new battleground for Free and Open Source software — something that [...]

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