Category Archives: For Developers

Joyent and Sprint Partner to Bring Node.js to Developers on SmartDataCenter

January 24, 2012 – 10:35 am

The first day of Node Summit in San Francisco kicked off this morning with leading technologists and industry experts sharing their perspective and insights on the business, technology and future of Node. On the mobile panel, Jason Delker, Director of Product Development at Sprint will speak about Sprint’s plans for fostering their growing developer community [...]

By Ginger Tulley | Also posted in Events, Mobile | Leave a Comment

Events: Joyent Node Summit Meetup Tonight!

January 23, 2012 – 5:00 pm

We here at Joyent have been looking forward to Node Summit for months now, and wanted to send one last reminder that you can join us tonight for some pre-summitting at the ThirstyBear Brewing Company from 6:00pm to 9:00pm — and since we just got a new round of funding, we’ll be picking up the [...]

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

Cloud9′s Plans for Node.js Community

January 23, 2012 – 3:20 pm

Ruben Daniels, CEO of Cloud9, the online environment for the development of JavaScript and HTML5 applications, has a great post over on the Cloud9 blog about all of the initiatives the company is undertaking to nurture and support the Node.js community. Take a look a the new community blog Nodebits.org, the official Node manual site Nodemanual.org, and the [...]

By Ginger Tulley | Also posted in Customers, Joyent Customers, node.js, Uncategorized | Comments (1)

Sprint Joins Mobile Panel at Node Summit

January 23, 2012 – 6:00 am

2012 marks a new chapter in Book of Node as hundreds of developers and business leaders come together for the first Node Summit in San Francisco on January 24th and 25th. Headlining the mobile panel, Jason Delker, Director of Product Development for Sprint, will speak about Sprint’s plans for fostering the growing developer community as [...]

By Nima | Also posted in Events, For Sys Admins and Dev Ops, Mobile, node.js | Leave a Comment

Events: Joyent CTO Jason Hoffman Speaking at MongoDB Los Angeles

January 13, 2012 – 10:08 am

A quick note about MongoDB Los Angeles, a conference put on in LA by our partners at 10gen (the initiator, contributor and continual sponsor of  the non-relational open source database MongoDB) on January 19th. Our esteemed CTO, Jason Hoffman, is going to be presenting a talk “N2M: Node.js and MongoDB as the modern stack for the real-time web.” [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in Events, node.js | Comments (1)

Where Does Your Node Program Spend Its Time?

January 6, 2012 – 11:29 am

Originally posted at Dave Pacheco’s Blog. Performance analysis is one of the most difficult challenges in building production software. If a slow application isn’t spending much time on CPU, it could be waiting on filesystem (disk) I/O, network traffic, garbage collection, or many other things. We built the Cloud Analytics tool to help administrators and [...]

By Dave Pacheco | Also posted in Analytics, DTrace, For Sys Admins and Dev Ops, node.js | Leave a Comment

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 [...]

By James A. Duncan | Also posted in For Joyent Cloud Customers, For Sys Admins and Dev Ops, Uncategorized | Comments (2)

Node on Azure and SDK Release

December 16, 2011 – 1:08 pm

Earlier this week you may have seen word from Corporate Vice President Scott Guthrie or the Interoperability Team at Microsoft, but today the Azure team released their announcement regarding Node on Windows Azure and the Windows Azure SDK for Node.js. After many months of hard work between the Azure team and the core team here [...]

By Eric Braun | Also posted in Announcements, node.js, Open Source | Comments (3)

Presenting File System Latency

December 13, 2011 – 12:13 pm

Part 5 of 5 on Examining File System Latency in Production, by Brendan Gregg, Lead Performance Engineer at Joyent and author with Jim Mauro of “DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD” Previously I have explained why disk I/O metrics may not reflect application performance, and how some file system issues may [...]

By Deirdré Straughan | Also posted in SmartOS | Comments (5)

A 2000x Performance Win with DTrace Analytics

December 12, 2011 – 12:55 pm

Note: This post originally appeared on the DTrace blog of @brendangregg I recently helped analyze a performance issue in an unexpected but common place, where the fix improved performance of a task by around 2000x (two thousand times faster). As this is short, interesting and useful, I’ve reproduced it here in a lab environment to [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in Analytics, DTrace, For Sys Admins and Dev Ops, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
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