Category Archives: Recipes

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, SmartOS, Uncategorized | 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 [...]

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Giving Thanks: My Ex’s Habañero-Cranberry Jelly

November 22, 2010 – 5:57 am

Smart people solve difficult problems every day here at Joyent. But even data center science often seems relatively easy compared to your average interpersonal relationship. There is nothing hot-swappable about a broken heart. But just like reviewing your logs leading up to a fail, you can still learn valuable things from the experience. Like this [...]

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

Video: Publish your code from Codesion to your SmartMachine

August 25, 2010 – 11:14 am

Video: How to publish your code directly from Codesion (Git or Subversion) to your Joyent SmartMachine.

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

Things I'll Need in iPhone 2.0. Or, the iPhone Review That's Nearly One Year Old

May 29, 2008 – 4:42 pm

I stood in line at an AT&T store last summer the day the iPhone first became publicly available. I thought the local Apple store would be mobbed. Four hours later the AT&T store was out of phones. With not much hope, I drove to the Apple store. Within 15 minutes I was inside buying two [...]

By grassonthefield | Also posted in Industry | Comments (8)

DTrace, MySQL, Ganglia, and Digging for Solutions

April 24, 2008 – 5:14 am

I stay generic when blogging, but I had an interesting problem today that I thought I’d share. I’ve got a Ganglia rollout thats constantly growing. Some time ago Gmetad start struggling to keep up and would report nodes down (oddly, if you refreshed the page over and over you’d see the number of nodes roll [...]

By jason | Also posted in OpenSolaris | Comments (3)

Fatboy Ambien: The Manhattan

April 3, 2007 – 3:15 am

The official Joyeur bourbon is Woodford Reserve (though we like Booker’s for cask strength), and after a long day chatting about the future of the western web, we like to sit back and enjoy a nice Manhattan. Here’s what you’ll need: Woodford Reserve (or Booker’s, if Monday was really tough) kentucky bourbon Martini and Rossi [...]

By grassonthefield | Comments (17)

Tortilla Soup

March 22, 2006 – 4:21 am

Tortilla soup made easy.

By grassonthefield | Comments (8)
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