Category Archives: General

Cahiers du intégrer: Node.js, Angry Birds and Nic Cage’s Laments

February 5, 2011 – 12:44 am

In which I present some Joyeur staff picks from the world of motion pictures online. I promise it won’t be as pretentious as the allusion in the title would suggest, so grab some popcorn and get ready to click the fullscreen button! Ryan D. gets top billing on the marquee this week for having premiered [...]

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

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 [...]

By Nima | Also posted in Industry, Infrastructure, Joyent, Media Coverage, Software | Leave a Comment

Two Hearts Beat as One

January 20, 2011 – 10:49 pm

While U2 marches to the beat of Larry Mullen, Jr. to endure the test of time, Joyent’s software products and service offerings are driven by customers, partners, and market opportunities to evolve over time. On January 13, 2011, Joyent unveiled not one, but two new web sites as another step to better serve our customers. [...]

By Geoffrey R. Morrissett | Also posted in Announcements, Customers, Joyent, Software, UI | Leave a Comment

Theobromine and Other Frivolities

January 7, 2011 – 12:00 pm

This is still a technology blog, so nothing wrong with geeking out over tools: Among my favorite cooking utensils are the digital thermometer and heat proof spatula. Both of these are very handy when making truffles. The themometer gives you some basic instrumentation so you know if and when the cream and chocolate are the [...]

By safiume | Also posted in Recipes | Leave a Comment

Joyeurs, Blogging

January 6, 2011 – 12:00 pm

Although the Joyeur blog is open to any Joyeur who’s got something to say, many of our newer recruits were bloggers before they came to Joyent. Our school of Fishworks engineers can be found on dtrace.org: Bryan Cantrill Brendan Gregg Dave Pacheco Robert Mustacchi I blog on my personal personal site, Countries Beginning with I, where [...]

By Deirdré Straughan | Also posted in Joyeurs | Comments (1)

Benchmarking Myself: The Technical Details

January 5, 2011 – 11:42 pm

After my first 26km of “fun,” enjoying a deliciously addictive blend of alkaloids and carcinogens. It’s all about people here at Joyent. And creative approaches to performance optimization, among other things. Both of which I’ve taken to heart on a personal level by reducing my own wetware form factor by 15 percent since I started [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Endurance | Comments (2)

Salesforce and Heroku: The Dork-Side of the Force?

December 14, 2010 – 2:00 am

There has certainly been a lot of chatter around SalesForce’s acquisition of Heroku for $212 million last week, and it certainly didn’t fall on deaf ears here at Joyent headquarters. While naturally highly biased, my favorite commentary so far was James Governor‘s thoughts from Enterprise Irregulars: Heroku is currently spreading its wings, or should I [...]

By Nima | Also posted in Announcements, Industry, Media Coverage, node.js | Leave a Comment

Linkdump: Dubya, Sexy Kinects and Spy vs. Spy

November 29, 2010 – 6:46 am

Jim Pick noticed that the scary warning pages set up by the United States Department of Justice for domains seized under new copyright policing powers were running Google Analytics. Classy! The latest from Wikileaks is that yes, the Chinese Communist Party did have a hand in promoting industrial espionage efforts that affected Google and dozens [...]

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

Expand Your Command Line Mind with TextExpander

November 23, 2010 – 6:00 am

As a member of the support staff, I probably spend most of my time in front of a terminal and a web browser during my typical work day. I actually have a bet with myself that I can probably work with just browser and terminal, but I’ve yet to try it. One of the apps [...]

By Christopher | Also posted in Reviews, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Competitive Advantage through Design Thinking

November 22, 2010 – 10:35 pm

Last February, I began volunteering for a non-profit group with friends from The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business and and designers affiliated with the San Francisco chapter of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA).  The group had no name, no mission, and no particular direction at the time.  What it did have [...]

By Geoffrey R. Morrissett | Also posted in Events, Industry, Reviews, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
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