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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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Node v0.6 with Native Windows Support Released

November 8, 2011 – 1:51 pm

In case you missed the exciting news on Nov 5, v0.6 of Node has been released! With this stable branch comes many highly anticipated improvements, but none a bigger testament to the rapid maturity and adoption of Node than native Windows support. We softly announced this effort back in June, and after nearly 5 months of [...]

By Eric Braun | Also posted in For Developers, node.js | Comments (1)

Joyent is Community Lead for Node.js on Cloud Foundry

November 8, 2011 – 9:00 am

Joyent is proud to extend our stewardship of the Node.js open source project to Cloud Foundry,VMware’s open source platform-as-a-service. It’s with great pleasure that we take on the role of Community Lead for Node. We will be providing Cloud Foundry’s end-users with community support for Node.js and NPM. We will also make ongoing contributions for Node.js and [...]

By Eric Braun | Also posted in For Developers, node.js | Comments (4)

Game Marketing 101: Getting Play, Getting Noticed, Getting Social

November 2, 2011 – 1:11 pm

A few weeks ago I was buttonholed by an upstart game developer at one of Joyent’s Node Office Hours in San Francisco. He knew how to code up his game. Obviously. What he wanted to ask me about was marketing his game. It was something he had never done and not surprisingly. Rare are developers [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in For Business, For Developers, For Joyent Cloud Customers, Games, Tutorials | Leave a Comment

Case Study: Using Cloud Analytics to Troubleshoot A Node Knockout Winner

October 22, 2011 – 8:54 pm

On the weekend of August 27-29, Joyent hosted Node Knockout 2011, a 48-hour coding competition for node.js developers from around the world, working individually or in teams. (Note: This article was originally posted by Joyent’s Brendan Gregg on the DTrace.org blog.) The contest entries were all hosted on Joyent’s no.de platform, running on SmartDataCenter and SmartOS. The winning entry was Observer by Arnout Kazemeir, a [...]

By alexsalkever | Also posted in Analytics, DTrace, For Joyent Cloud Customers, For Sys Admins and Dev Ops, Joyent, node.js, SmartOS, Tutorials | Leave a Comment
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