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Hellloooooo, Europe! We’re Live in Amsterdam, People!

April 19, 2012 – 3:11 pm

Just in case you missed our tweets and our press release (who reads them anymore?), here’s the scoop on Joyent Cloud Europe. We just lit up our first data center outside North America and its in Amsterdam! This is a Tier-4 facility with all the goodies you’ve come to expect from Joyent Cloud: all Nehalem [...]

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dtrace conf: April 3 in Downtown SF. Trace that, people!

April 2, 2012 – 2:02 pm

^ The original (and only) dtrace.conf in 2008 was a smash hit – even the analysts were raving! In pace with the Olympiad, it’s time once again to bring the community together for dtrace.conf 2012! This Joyent-sponsored community event will be held in downtown San Francisco (likely SoMA, but exact venue TBD) on Tuesday, April [...]

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Meetups Galore: MongoDB & Node, Monitoring, and Making Quizlet Run Fast

February 27, 2012 – 11:14 am

Hey there. So we have some great meetups coming up at Joyent HQ. They’re a good opportunity to learn, compare notes and ask questions from the pros: MONGODB + JOYENT CLOUD: THE MONGO/NODE.JS STACK WITH 10GEN AND MONGOLAB ON FEBRUARY 29 AT 6:00 PM Join this Joyent Cloud User Group (JCUG) Meetup focused on Node.js [...]

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Amped Up About Amplify: Joyent Cloud Sponsoring LA Startups Like Look.io

February 16, 2012 – 11:05 am

We announced today that Joyent Cloud is the lead cloud services sponsor of Amplify. What is that? Amplify is a Los Angeles startup accelerator and venture capital fund combined based in Santa Monica. It’s a unique structure put in place by an exceptionally talented group of engineers and founders who wanted to build a new [...]

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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, Joyent Customers, node.js | Comments (1)

A Bit More About the New Joyent Cloud API

January 3, 2012 – 11:27 am

As part of SmartDataCenter 6.5, we’ve introduced something I’m pretty excited about sharing, which is an open signing protocol for HTTP. We’re using it in what we call CloudAPI, which is the REST API that powers our customer portal, and is exposed to you to create your own applications. In this post I’ll go over [...]

By James A. Duncan | Also posted in For Developers, For Joyent Cloud Customers, For Sys Admins and Dev Ops | Comments (2)

A 2000x Performance Win with DTrace Analytics

December 12, 2011 – 12:55 pm

Note: This post originally appeared on the DTrace blog of @brendangregg I recently helped analyze a performance issue in an unexpected but common place, where the fix improved performance of a task by around 2000x (two thousand times faster). As this is short, interesting and useful, I’ve reproduced it here in a lab environment to [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in Analytics, DTrace, For Developers, For Sys Admins and Dev Ops | Leave a Comment

A Brand New MongoDB Appliance with Pre-Installed, Tuned Up Mongo Goodness

December 9, 2011 – 7:31 am

We’re down in Santa Clara for the annual MongoSV show and simultaneously announcing the launch of our brand new SmartMachine for MongoDB. This new virtual machine comes pre-loaded with a fully tuned, optimized, and ready to deploy instance of MongoDB, the NoSQL database that is becoming a key player in mobile, e-commerce, game and other [...]

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

Node.js: #1 Most Watched GitHub Repository

November 28, 2011 – 2:03 pm

Well that didn’t take very long. Only three years since the creation of Node.js by Ryan Dahl (of Joyent), the programming language / runtime environment is now the most watched / followed code repository on GitHub. (image is the time line of commits to Node.js Repository in 2011 courtesy of Venture Beat) From the VentureBeat article by [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in For Developers, Games, Joyent, Mobile, node.js | Comments (1)

Discount to MongoSV, the Ultimate MongoDB Conf (Joyent CTO Jason Hoffman Is Speaking.)

November 11, 2011 – 12:29 pm

Did you know that LinkedIn runs their mobile applications on MongoDB hosted in the Joyent Cloud? Many Joyent Cloud customers are MongoDB lovers and it makes sense because MongoDB is quite accessible to application developers focused on mobile, e-commerce and gaming (Joyent Cloud’s top verticals). So we at Joyent Cloud are excited to sponsor of [...]

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