Category Archives: Open Source

Joyent Partners with Microsoft to Port Node.js to Windows

June 23, 2011 – 7:50 am

Joyent is pleased to announce a partnership with Microsoft to port Node.js to Windows. The result will be official binary node.exe releases on nodejs.org, which will work on Windows Azure and other Windows versions as far back as Server 2003. From Ryan Dahl on the Node Blog: I’m pleased to announce that Microsoft is partnering [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Announcements, node.js, Partnerships | Comments (3)

Vielen Dank for a Great Nodecamp.eu!

June 13, 2011 – 5:12 pm

Much fun was clearly had in Cologne at Nodecamp.eu over the weekend. Frederic Hemberger was nice enough to start putting together materials from all the talks and presentations, including the screencast from Ryan Dahl’s session “using libuv and http-parser to build a webserver,” which was also featured at the Paris Node meetup earlier in the [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in node.js, Video | Leave a Comment

How to Use vmstat for Performance Analysis

April 28, 2011 – 3:00 pm

Deirdre and Brendan took the time to put together some video guides to using vmstat to monitor systems for performance analysis. Brendan explains key fields in the video above, but also covers all the data output and how to scope for inquiries in multi-tenant environments. The examples should come in handy for anyone working with [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Analytics, DTrace, OpenSolaris, Video | Comments (1)

SFOSUG and Promo for Solaris Users

February 8, 2011 – 12:20 pm

The San Francisco OpenSolaris usergroup meeting is tonight at Joyent’s HQ in San Francisco. Bill Pijewski has graciously offered to give an introduction to the new Kstat virtualization in OpenSolaris — build 147! There’s still time to RSVP to myself. Go ahead and email myself shannon at joyent dot com to RSVP. And totally cool, [...]

By safiume | Also posted in Events, OpenSolaris | Comments (4)

San Francisco OpenSolaris User Group Meeting Tomorrow

February 7, 2011 – 5:41 pm

Joyent is happy to be hosting the next San Francisco Open Solaris User Group meeting, which will be landing on the second Tuesday of every month going forward. This week, the plan is to drink some beer, talk about the latest release and listen to our own Bill Pijewski present on kstat virtualization developments. The [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Events, Meetup, OpenSolaris | Leave a Comment

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 [...]

By jason | Also posted in Joyent, node.js, Software | Comments (14)

Installing Node and npm

December 10, 2010 – 8:03 am

In preparation for Node Camp I thought it would be a good idea to help any of you new noders out there get started with the newest, hottest piece of awesome to hit the interwebz since HTTP. These instructions will take you from a computer to a computer with node and npm (which I think [...]

By Isaac Schlueter | Also posted in node.js | Comments (11)

A New Abode for Node

November 9, 2010 – 6:03 pm

As Ryan Dahl mentions in his post, Joyent has officially become the new home for Node.js. We are excited and honored to be investing this active open source project, and we’re thrilled at the response the technology has received. We believe Node.js is a foundational technology that will enable developers to build the next generation [...]

By markjoyent | Also posted in Announcements, node.js | Comments (2)

Gearing up for Node Knockout

August 26, 2010 – 9:13 am

As we gear up for the Node Knockout challenge, Node.js creator Ryan Dahl has written up a great introduction to deploying the beta version of Joyent’s new Node SmartMachines. Just drop by No.de to get started — and make it snappy, because the contest kicks off tomorrow at 5 p.m. PDT, or midnight Saturday GMT.

By Jackson West | Leave a Comment

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 [...]

By jason | Also posted in OpenSolaris | Comments (2)
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