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 model for nurturing startups. Oded Noy and Jeff Solomon have built a stellar team and deep bench of advisors and participating portfolio CEOs and CTOS. Amplify is taking a new, holistic approach to startup development. Here’s the manifesto outlining their differences from their site.

 

1. Our physical space is a real community – not a room with desks
2. Our mentor program is highly organized and pragmatic – they will spend real time with you
3. Our management team works “in” the companies – not investors looking to increase their wealth on your back
4. We are tightly connected to media and entertainment in Los Angeles – not hustlers who know the usual suspects
5. Our investor network is extraordinary in LA and far beyond – not just a few big names

After we learned about Amplify pre-launch, it was a no-brainer for Joyent Cloud to sponsor Amplify and provide compute credits on our infrastructure. Amplify’s management is deciding exactly which startup deploys what on Joyent Cloud but we are extremely impressed with the first major one – Look.io, an in-app real-time support plug-in for mobile apps. They use Node.js to make sure that chat through their platform is super fast even over sketchy mobile network connections. As such, Look.io is targeting the Real-Time Web. Since we like to think that Joyent Cloud is the Real-Time Cloud, then its a perfect fit.

Co-founders Grant  and Marc deployed Look.io in Node.js with  Basho’s high-availability Riak data store (just like Voxer) as well a Redis and WebSockets. They used Joyent Cloud SmartMachines running Joyent SmartOS, the open source operating system that powers our own cloud and incorporates Joyent Cloud Analytics and DTrace to provide unparalled transparency and QA capabilities for Node.js apps. Support and communications applications are about as real-time as it gets. Latency and slowness will turn end-users off and chase them out of the app or off the Website. We’ll be talking more about Look.io in the near future as the app ramps, and about Amplify as the first crop of portfolio companies leaves the launch pad. It’s going to be a fun ride.

By alexsalkever | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (2)

Announcing the Second DTrace Conference on April 3: Bring Your DTrace Tech Talk

February 12, 2012 – 10:25 pm

(Note: Reposting from Deirdre Straughan’s post on the SmartOS blog. This should be an amazing conference as many more folks are using DTrace today and the community is far more developed. And this event should have some great battlefield stories for using DTrace to fine-tune Node.js. Stay tuned for more info.)

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 3rd. Note that there may be a small attendance fee to help defray costs.

As with the inaugural dtrace.conf, this will be a technical conference for people who are using DTrace, expanding its boundaries, and contributing to its growth and health. This will be done in unconference style, so every attendee should come prepared to present or otherwise lead a discussion or session. Note that “just using DTrace” is more than sufficient for leading a discussion or session: if you’re ready to talk about what you found in technical detail – and how DTrace helped you (or didn’t!) – we would love for you to join us at dtrace.conf.

Register here.

By alexsalkever | Posted in Announcements, For Developers, Joyent, Joyent Cloud, node.js, SmartOS | Leave a Comment

Joyent Cloud Meetup: Robert Mustacchi on Using SmartOS as a Hypervisor

February 6, 2012 – 7:08 pm

Joyent Software Engineer Robert Mustacchi reprised his recent presentation at Scale 10X, “Using SmartOS as a Hypervisor” for our Joyent Cloud Meetup on Tuesday, January 31st. He also took the time to field some queries during the lively question and answer session. For more about SmartOS, keep up to date with the latest at the SmartOS blog. And be sure to keep an eye on our Twitter stream for updates and details about future meetups in case you’d like to join us for pizza, beer and computing next time.

By Jackson West | Posted in Events, SmartOS, Video | Leave a Comment

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 use Node in their businesses. (Not a great view but the sound’s good! [MP3])

The session was moderated by John Rymer, Forrester Research analyst and expert on enterprise middleware. John had some good questions.

Customers Colin Rand, Associate Director of Technology at AKQA, Glen Lougheed, CEO of NodeFly Systems, and Jevon MacDonald, Co-Founder and CEO of GoInstant had a fantastic conversation about how they considered using Node.js from a business standpoint, and what it’s like to use a new technology that changes the way we think about how applications work for us.

Have a look or a listen.

By Ginger Tulley | Posted in Joyent Customers, node.js, Video | Leave a Comment

What is Node? Answers from Node Summit

January 25, 2012 – 8:32 am

While talking to fellow Node.js enthusiasts in San Francisco for Node Summit this week, we asked what seems like a simple question: “What is Node?” We got answers ranging from the basic but technical to the detailed but metaphorical, and provided by a wide range of experts from companies of all sizes working in a number of different fields. Going to show that through the power of simplicity, Node.js promises a wealth of opportunity.

Here are some of the people who answered the question:

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By Jackson West | Posted in Events, For Developers, Interviews, Media (Podcasts, Videos, Webinars), node.js, Video | Tags: , , , | Leave a Comment

Joyent and Sprint Partner to Bring Node.js to Developers on SmartDataCenter

January 24, 2012 – 10:35 am

The first day of Node Summit in San Francisco kicked off this morning with leading technologists and industry experts sharing their perspective and insights on the business, technology and future of Node. On the mobile panel, Jason Delker, Director of Product Development at Sprint will speak about Sprint’s plans for fostering their growing developer community as well as Sprint’s future plans for supporting and integrating ground-breaking open technologies like Node.js into their suite of mobile development tools.

“Mobile phones are really micro-computers with always-on data connections. Today’s smart phones still run apps served by ancient and inefficient programming languages,” says Jason Hoffman, Joyent Founder and CTO.  ”Node.js ushers in a new era of computing where Carriers can achieve greater network efficiency and customers enjoy faster application response times.  Sprint’s proven track record of innovation, developer engagement and commitment to being ‘more open’ than other carriers makes Sprint a natural partner for Joyent.”

To that end Joyent will be collaborating with Sprint to offer Node.js developer instances on Joyent’s SmartDataCenter cloud software for the Sprint Developer Community and internal product development teams. We will blog more as this partnership evolves – until then, keep your eye on www.joyeur.com.

Photo by: hr.ico http://www.flickr.com/photos/tprzechlewski/

By Ginger Tulley | Posted in Events, For Developers, Mobile | Leave a Comment

Events: Joyent Node Summit Meetup Tonight!

January 23, 2012 – 5:00 pm

We here at Joyent have been looking forward to Node Summit for months now, and wanted to send one last reminder that you can join us tonight for some pre-summitting at the ThirstyBear Brewing Company from 6:00pm to 9:00pm — and since we just got a new round of funding, we’ll be picking up the tab. Just let us know you’re coming.

Of course, you can also find us at the Mission Bay Conference Center for Node Summit proper tomorrow and Wednesday. And there are still a few badges left if you haven’t registered yet for the conference!

By Jackson West | Posted in Events, node.js | 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 place for Cloud9 IDE and Node.js training.

You can catch Ruben at Node Summit on Wednesday, participating in a panel titled PaaS Services and Tools.

Congratulations on your valuable initiatives, Cloud9 team.

By Ginger Tulley | Posted in Customers, For Developers, Joyent Customers, node.js, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | Comments (1)

Sprint Joins Mobile Panel at Node Summit

January 23, 2012 – 6:00 am

2012 marks a new chapter in Book of Node as hundreds of developers and business leaders come together for the first Node Summit in San Francisco on January 24th and 25th. Headlining the mobile panel, Jason Delker, Director of Product Development for Sprint, will speak about Sprint’s plans for fostering the growing developer community as well as Sprint’s future plans for supporting and integrating ground-breaking open technologies like Node.js into their suite of mobile development tools.

“Web and mobile apps need to embrace performance oriented yet efficient architectures, ” said Jason Delker, director of Product Development, Sprint. “By reducing the overhead to support low latency, high concurrency apps –  the next generation of connected mobile applications – developers can create a richer and more engaging user experience without the burden of expensive back-end infrastructure.  Node represents an exciting opportunity for Sprint because the language is easy to learn and the architecture is ideal to serve next-generation connected mobile applications. Our collaboration with Joyent is part of our goal to integrate leading edge technologies both internally at Sprint and externally as part of our toolkit for Sprint app developers.”

Given these benefits, Sprint and Joyent are collaborating over the coming months to offer Node.js developer instances on Joyent’s SmartDataCenter cloud software for the Sprint Developer Community.

By Nima | Posted in Events, For Developers, For Sys Admins and Dev Ops, Mobile, node.js | Tags: , , , , | Leave a Comment

Joyent Gets New Funding

January 23, 2012 – 5:26 am

We’re pleased to announce that Joyent has some new investors. Weather Investment II and Telefonica Digital have together invested $85 million into Joyent. We’d like to welcome Weather II and it’s advising company Accelero, along with Telefonica Digital, to the Joyent family.

How will the new funds be spent, you may ask? Please read the press release here, and we’ll link to some of the stories that emerge today.

Photo by DonkeyHotey

By Ginger Tulley | Posted in Announcements, For Business, For Joyent Cloud Customers, Industry, Joyent, Joyent Cloud, Partnerships | Comments (2)
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