Category Archives: Joyent Customers

The Business Justification for Using Node.js

January 26, 2012 – 4:15 pm

Joyent customers are so smart and articulate. That’s why we invited them to speak on the Joyent sponsor panel at Node Summit on Tuesday. Why listen to us when our customers can tell the story of using Node.js better than we can? We taped the panel, so here’s their conversation about why they decided to [...]

By Ginger Tulley | Also posted in node.js, Video | 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, For Developers, node.js, Uncategorized | Comments (1)

Case Study: Kabam in the Joyent Cloud

November 16, 2011 – 12:04 pm

(This post is adapted from a Case Study published on the Joyent Cloud Website. You can also watch a video with Kabam COO Chris Carvalho) Kabam (formerly Watercooler) is a leading social games developer, with more than 60 million installations of its games around the world. By combining the most popular elements of traditional and [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in Customers, For Developers, Games | Leave a Comment

How a Major Mobile PaaS Builds a Platform in the Cloud

November 4, 2011 – 12:02 am

“We looked in a terminal window and literally saw how much faster Joyent Cloud’s performance was than Amazon’s EC2. Our customers need that.” said StackMob CEO and Co-founder Ty Amell. This post was adapted from Case Study of how StackMob uses the Joyent Cloud. StackMob offers a comprehensive suite of services, from custom API creation to messaging, analytics, [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in Customers, For Developers, Infrastructure, Joyent Cloud, Mobile, Partnerships | Leave a Comment

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, node.js | Comments (4)

Quizlet Case Study: 60 Million Page Views, 6 Million Uniques, 3 Web Servers, 40 miliseconds

October 25, 2011 – 6:13 pm

Quizlet is the world’s largest flashcards and study games website. From middle school students to medical residents, Quizlet’s users have created over 7 million flash card sets incorporating more than 200 million terms and definitions. Built by founder Andrew Sutherland in 2005 as a way to study for his high-school French class, Quizlet now includes [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in For Developers, For Joyent Cloud Customers, Joyent | Comments (1)

Introducing Joyent SmartDataCenter Customers

October 25, 2011 – 8:01 am

We’re proud to introduce our cloud software customers today in this announcement. As you can see from the map above, our customers are spread across the globe. Despite the geographic diversity, at least one thing they have in common is their use of SmartDataCenter to provide cloud services to their customers. Thank you ClusterTech, First [...]

By Ginger Tulley | Also posted in Announcements, Customers, For Sys Admins and Dev Ops | Leave a Comment

Envolve: How a YC Startup Runs its Cloud App – A Case Study

October 17, 2011 – 8:59 pm

This post was adapted from a case study of Envolve posted on Joyent Cloud. Envolve is a graduate of the YCombinator program and is a fast growing provider of API driven chat-as-a-service. Envolve operates a Software-as-a-Service customizable chat solution that makes adding rich chat functionality to a website as simple as adding a few lines of [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in Customers, For Developers, Games, Joyent Cloud, node.js, SmartOS, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Sliders, Stories and Suggestions: Eating, Listening and Learning at last Thursday’s Joyent Celebration

September 20, 2011 – 12:47 pm

We celebrated the launch of the new Joyent Cloud last Thursday night with a most excellent party for some of our most excellent customers and other cloud luminaries in downtown SF. We ate a lot of sliders, swapped a lot of stories, and learned a whole lot about what our customers are doing in the [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in Customers, Joyent Cloud, node.js, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

9 Millions Requests Per Day (Load Tested) with 120 megs of RAM. One Joyent SmartMachine. Add Hacker News and Share.

September 1, 2011 – 8:53 am

I started working at Joyent this week. My nominal title is Director of Product Marketing — Joyent Cloud. In reality, at a shop like Joyent, you wear so many hats that titles are fluid at best. But as marketing guy with a serious technical bent, one of my favorite parts of the job is seeing [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in Customers, Media Coverage, Recipes, SmartOS, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
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