Category Archives: Infrastructure

SmartDataCenter: Analytics and Introspection

June 27, 2011 – 12:00 pm

Introspection is defined as the “contemplation of one’s own thoughts, impressions and feelings”, but if you’re an application running in the cloud, introspection reflects “why” as much as “how”. Moving from managed infrastructure to cloud-based solution often involves a big tradeoff in transparency – transparency in the control layers, visibility into how systems are setup, [...]

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SmartDataCenter: Disk IO Throttling for Optimal Performance

June 22, 2011 – 5:49 pm

Disk I/O throttling is one of the latest features of SmartDataCenter and enables cloud operators to selectively cap and throttle Disk I/O operations, thereby improving overall system performance. Examples of throttling can include: Throttling I/O to locally attached disk to prevent one thread/customer/zone from dominating access to the disk pool Limiting CPU utilization to prevent [...]

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ps pipe grep: Episode 26 (Cold Sweats)

April 26, 2011 – 9:54 pm

If you were hoping for Amazon to mention their prolonged Web Services outage during the company’s quarterly earnings call today, you were probably left disappointed. While waiting for a sign from Seattle, David and Jason invited Bryan to the studio to provide color commentary. Topics of discussion include the problems with network storage and abstracting [...]

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Network Storage in the Cloud: Delicious but Deadly

April 25, 2011 – 6:00 am

This post is one in a series discussing storage architectures in the cloud. Read Magical Block Store: When Abstractions Fail Us and On Cascading Failures and Amazon’s Elastic Block Store for more insight. By Bryan Cantrill One of the persistent themes of my career has been something of a love affair with understanding systems failure [...]

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Magical Block Store: When Abstractions Fail Us

April 24, 2011 – 8:33 am

This post is one in a series discussing storage architectures in the cloud. Read Network Storage in the Cloud: Delicious but Deadly and On Cascading Failures and Amazon’s Elastic Block Store for more insight. Like anyone who has anything to do with the business of running applications attached to the Internet, I can’t help but [...]

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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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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 [...]

By jason | Also posted in Industry, Joyent, Software | Comments (6)

Upcoming Webinar: Why I/O Matters in the Cloud

March 25, 2011 – 12:03 pm

Next Thursday, March 31st, our Chief Architect James Duncan and Joyent Cloud General Manager Steve Tuck will discuss the critical role I/O plays for applications running in the cloud, and how Joyent’s SmartDataCenter software and public cloud services solve real problems which on other systems have lead to downtime and frustrated users. The discussion will [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Industry, Webinar | Comments (1)

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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Adventures in Debugging: Bring Your Tools

November 19, 2010 – 6:00 am

Several years back, when I was working for a company that sold high performance appliances, we received a report from a customer that performance was atrocious and nowhere near our indicated throughput by several times over. Obviously we needed to work out what was going on. To the tools mobile! Thankfully the appliances had the ability [...]

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