Category Archives: General

Cull.tv Makes Noise with Node.js

September 23, 2011 – 2:12 pm

Cull.tv is “rebooting music videos for the 21st century” according to Co-Founder Katherine de León — though for those of us old enough to remember MTV back when all the network did was play music videos, the site is a refreshing throwback to the days when you could “turn it on, leave it on.” While [...]

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

Lessons Learned at the GamesBeat and MobileBeat Conferences

July 15, 2011 – 9:39 am

This week, the Joyent Cloud team, including General Manager Steve Tuck and I attended the MobileBeat and GamesBeat conferences here in San Francisco. Held at the Palace Hotel, it was an amazing opportunity to meet the growing community of developers, entrepreneurs and business folks in the mobile and gaming space. As we dashed madly between [...]

By Nima | Also posted in Mobile, Partnerships | Leave a Comment

Friday Math Fun #24: “Checkers and Dominoes”

June 24, 2011 – 3:00 pm

Every Friday, our resident mathematician, Tim Eller, puts out a math challenge to the company. Kudos to @kevinykchan and @erikcorry for finding the solution to last week’s quiz! Take a checkerboard, and from two opposite corners remove one square (e.g. upper left and lower right). Take 31 dominoes, each of which could cover exactly two [...]

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Friday Math Fun #23: “Crossing the Bridge”

June 17, 2011 – 9:27 am

Every Friday, our resident mathematician, Tim Eller, puts out a math challenge to the company. Starting today, we’re going to open this game up to our readers too. -Mark In the black of night, four people come to a rickety narrow bridge over a chasm. The bridge can hold at most two people at a [...]

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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 [...]

By markjoyent | Also posted in Industry, Infrastructure, Joyent, Software | Comments (21)

Top 5 Lists Featuring Joyent — Includes Bonus List!

April 4, 2011 – 1:01 pm

Everyone loves listicles — sites love to publish them because people love to click on them! Joyeur is certainly no exception. Recently, we’ve been featured in a number of lists, so here they are in order of exclusivity — along with some tips that might help you get past some editorial velvet ropes. 5. 2011 [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Industry, Joyent, Media Coverage, Software | Leave a Comment

ps pipe grep: Episode 25 (Hugs)

March 16, 2011 – 12:43 pm

Tom Hughes-Croucher dropped by Studio 112B to sit down with Jason, while Robot David Young, already having reached the technological singularity, chimed in from Planet Marin. Trans-Atlantic diplomatic relations, Robot David’s possibly factual accounts of Texas history and definitely factual accounts of Texas barbecue, plus the hows and whys of attending tech conferences are discussed. [...]

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

ps pipe grep: Episode 24 (Reverse Groupon)

February 22, 2011 – 11:59 pm

Bryan Cantrill makes his first appearance with Ben still on the road, and along with David and Jason takes a long, circuitous route from computing history to the computing future by way of elegant nachos. A moment of silence for Ken Olsen, Bryan boasts he can take Watson in a fistfight, David buys a Blackberry [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Industry, Podcast | Leave a Comment

Top 10 Tips for Social Gaming Success

February 17, 2011 – 11:00 am

By Carly Guarcello After working with hundreds of companies, including some of the largest social gaming firms, we’ve identified the top 10 essential tips to maximize your game’s success. So while you are brainstorming for the next big hit, keep these in mind. 10. Know your competition Do your research. See what’s out there. It’s [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Games | Comments (1)
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