Category Archives: node.js

eBay chooses Node.js as the runtime stack in ql.io: a data-retrieval and aggregation gateway for HTTP APIs

November 30, 2011 – 9:40 am

Today eBay announced their release of ql.io, a declarative, evented, data-retrieval and aggregation gateway for HTTP APIs. Subbu Allamaraju, an Architect at eBay, explains, “Through ql.io, we want to help application developers increase engineering clock speed and improve end user experience. ql.io can reduce the number of lines of code required to call multiple HTTP APIs while simultaneously bringing [...]

By Eric Braun | Also posted in Benchmarks, For Business, For Developers, Games, Mobile, Open Source, Use Cases | Comments (1)

Node.js: #1 Most Watched GitHub Repository

November 28, 2011 – 2:03 pm

Well that didn’t take very long. Only three years since the creation of Node.js by Ryan Dahl (of Joyent), the programming language / runtime environment is now the most watched / followed code repository on GitHub. (image is the time line of commits to Node.js Repository in 2011 courtesy of Venture Beat) From the VentureBeat article by [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in For Developers, Games, Joyent, Mobile, Uncategorized | Comments (1)

Events: Cloud Expo West, Node.js Office Hours

November 9, 2011 – 9:09 am

This week, Joyeurs can be found at the Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara — if you’re in town for the conference and have questions about our SmartDataCenter software or our other products and services, don’t hesitate to introduce yourself. We’ll be on hand with our friends at the Telx booth on the show floor [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Events | Leave a Comment

Node v0.6 with Native Windows Support Released

November 8, 2011 – 1:51 pm

In case you missed the exciting news on Nov 5, v0.6 of Node has been released! With this stable branch comes many highly anticipated improvements, but none a bigger testament to the rapid maturity and adoption of Node than native Windows support. We softly announced this effort back in June, and after nearly 5 months of [...]

By Eric Braun | Also posted in For Developers, Uncategorized | Comments (1)

Joyent is Community Lead for Node.js on Cloud Foundry

November 8, 2011 – 9:00 am

Joyent is proud to extend our stewardship of the Node.js open source project to Cloud Foundry,VMware’s open source platform-as-a-service. It’s with great pleasure that we take on the role of Community Lead for Node. We will be providing Cloud Foundry’s end-users with community support for Node.js and NPM. We will also make ongoing contributions for Node.js and [...]

By Eric Braun | Also posted in For Developers, Uncategorized | Comments (5)

GoInstant and The Dawn of the Completely Shared Web: Manifesto from TC Disrupt Finalist and Digital Sky Funding Recipient

October 30, 2011 – 6:49 pm

(Note: This is a guest post on Joyeur by Jevon MacDonald, co-founder of GoInstant. He and his team have built an amazing product that enables full two-way sharing and use in real-time of any Web page between any to Internet enabled devices on any browsers with zero noticeable latency and no downloads or config changes [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in Customers, For Developers, Joyent Customers | Comments (4)

Webinar w/Tom-Hughes Croucher: Using a Node.js Virtual Appliance for Production Apps in the Cloud

October 28, 2011 – 7:37 am

Please join Tom Hughes-Croucher, Chief Evangelist at Joyent, for a webinar inroducing the Joyent Node.js SmartMachine on Tuesday November 1, 2011 at 10:00am PT / 1:00PM ET. Tom, who is an active and respected Node.js developer, will compare and contrast the No.de service and the newer Joyent Cloud Node.js Smartmachine, and what types of development [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in For Developers, Games, Media (Podcasts, Videos, Webinars), Mobile, Webinar | Leave a Comment

Node.js + MongoDB = Love: Guest Post from MongoLab

October 26, 2011 – 2:30 pm

Node.js with the popular document-oriented MongoDB make for a deeply powerful and robust application platform. Or in other words, they rock. (Note: This blog post was contributed by Ben Wen of MongoLab – a Joyent Partner and provider of MongoDB hosting, support and analytics) Pair Joyent Cloud’s hosted node.js SmartMachine Appliance with MongoLab’s hosted MongoDB [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in For Developers, Games, Mobile | Comments (4)

First Server and Joyent Announce SmartDataCenter-powered cloud in Japan. Oh, and Node Ninja, a Node.js Service

October 25, 2011 – 8:18 am

Earlier today Joyent Founder and CTO Jason Hoffman and Isobe-san, CEO of Yahoo! Japan subsidiary First Server, announced the launch of First Server’s SmartDataCenter-powered public cloud service, named Z Cloud, at a press conference in Tokyo. Isobe-san also unveiled First Server’s Node.js service, named Node Ninja, just in time for NodeFest (also known as 東京Node学園祭2011), a conference [...]

By Ginger Tulley | Also posted in Announcements, For Developers, Joyent | Leave a Comment

Case Study: Using Cloud Analytics to Troubleshoot A Node Knockout Winner

October 22, 2011 – 8:54 pm

On the weekend of August 27-29, Joyent hosted Node Knockout 2011, a 48-hour coding competition for node.js developers from around the world, working individually or in teams. (Note: This article was originally posted by Joyent’s Brendan Gregg on the DTrace.org blog.) The contest entries were all hosted on Joyent’s no.de platform, running on SmartDataCenter and SmartOS. The winning entry was Observer by Arnout Kazemeir, a [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in Analytics, DTrace, For Joyent Cloud Customers, For Sys Admins and Dev Ops, Joyent, SmartOS, Tutorials, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
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