Category Archives: Open Source

Notes from SCALE10x — More I/O for the Cloud, Please

January 22, 2012 – 10:23 pm

A crew of Joyeurs went to Los Angeles to attend SCALE 10x – the 2012 Southern California Linux Expo over the weekend. We went for a number of reasons. First, we were invited. Two of our engineers, Brendan Gregg and Robert Mustacchi, were on the speaker schedule. Second, we have been eagerly working with other [...]

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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 | Comments (3)

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, node.js, Use Cases | Comments (1)

Events: Node.js Office Hours Now Wednesdays

September 13, 2011 – 7:34 pm

For those looking to catch the action during Node.js Office Hours, you’ll want to tune in to your preferred channel on the same time as usual — 4:00pm Pacific — but a day earlier in the week, Wednesday. That’s right, everyone’s favorite chance to discuss their favorite Node.js topics will be tomorrow, Wednesday, September 14th [...]

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

Events: KVM Forum, Node Knockout Drinkup

August 15, 2011 – 10:27 am

We’re all pretty excited about the announcement of bringing illumos and KVM together with our open source SmartOS operating system, though possibly no Joyeur is more excited than our Vice President of Engineering Bryan Cantrill, who will be discussing the team’s “Experiences porting KVM to SmartOS” at the KVM Forum in Vancouver today at 2:30pm [...]

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

KVM on illumos

August 15, 2011 – 6:01 am

This post originally appeared on DTrace.org and can also be found on the new SmartOS.org blog. By Bryan Cantrill A little over a year ago, I came to Joyent because of a shared belief that systems software innovation matters — that there is no level of the software stack that should be considered off-limits to [...]

By Jackson West | Also posted in Announcements, Joyent, OpenSolaris, Software | Comments (1)

Events: Office Hours, Big Week Ahead

August 10, 2011 – 7:06 pm

This is a quiet week at Joyent, with just our weekly Node.js Office Hours tomorrow — Thursday, August 11th — from 4:00pm to 8:00pm PDT. Register if you’d like to drop by our office in person, or join the team online via the #nodejs IRC channel on freenode.net and by phone at +1 (415) 400-0604 [...]

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

Events: OSCON, Office Hours

July 26, 2011 – 2:07 pm

The annual OSCON convention put on by O’Reilly is underway in Portland, Oregon this week. Brendan Gregg and Dave Pacheco led the DTrace Community Birds of a Feather session yesterday, and today, Tuesday, is officially Node Day with Joyeurs Tom Hughes-Croucher and Ryan Dahl joined by friends from around the Node.js community to discuss the [...]

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Evolving the Node.js Brand

July 11, 2011 – 9:14 am

To echo Node’s evolutionary nature, we have refreshed the identity to help mark an exciting time for developers, businesses and users who benefit from the pioneering technology. Building a brand We began exploring elements to express Node.js and jettisoned preconceived notions about what we thought Node should look like, and focused on what Node is: kinetic, connected, scalable, modular, mechanical and organic. [...]

By Emily Tanaka-Delgado | Also posted in node.js, Uncategorized | Comments (1)

The Backchannel: Dell Storage Forum, File System Latency, Illumos, Velocity and Node News

June 24, 2011 – 12:51 pm

As you might have noted from our events listings, it’s been a busy couple of weeks for team Joyent. Ed Saipetch was in Florida representing Joyent at the Dell Storage Forum, where he sat down with John McArthur and Cali Lewis for a Silicon Angle TV segment. For more of his thoughts on the conference, [...]

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