Sun has put together a great program called Sun Startup Essentials where startup companies can gain access to Sun technologies, software and services for either free, or via sharply discounted rates.
We are pleased as punch to be named as one of Sun’s two preferred Hosting providers, (though we would prefer to be called the [...]
For the simple reason that it’s the only static web server I’ve seen that supports Solaris’s Event Ports
events {
worker_connections 1024;
use eventport;
}
I’m cutting over the ton of static servers we have to it.
If you’re interested in a x86/64 build for Solaris
http://assets1.joyent.com/opt-nginx-amd64-build.tgz
http://assets1.joyent.com/opt-pcre7-amd64-build.tgz
Just drop it in place
$ ln -s [...]
Read More»We committed ourselves to Solaris as our base operating system two years ago as Solaris was becoming OpenSolaris. We needed a solid operating system that was 32/64bit, can manage lots of CPUs and RAM, one that we could contribute to, and we realized that three features would be a competitive advantage if we became experts [...]
Read More»Know what that means?
It is Taco Wings Tuesday time!
Several of us are attending the MySQL Conference & Expo today, so it was suggested we do our little meetup down there to catch up with some old friends and meet new peeps in town (thanks for the idea Niall).
We will be squatting in the bar [...]
Ben, Jason, Dave talk about the new Ubuntu Feisty and Fawn, Rails Performance, 5 Billion Files on Amazon S3, Statsaholic and Amazon.
ps pipe grep.
I’m serving the podcast from my Bingo disk.
Here’s a direct link to the mp3.
Here’s a non-iTunes RSS feed.
This week’s music: Jon Brion (from a Chicago Public Radio appearance on Sound Opinions, [...]
Fundamental Philosophy and Origin
Accelerators rose from two needs: a standardized stack capable of serving our own growing applications and the appearance last year of large companies and startups needing “enterprise rails”.
Our applications, like Strongspace and the Joyent Connector are over 2 years old now, were some of the earliest revenue-generating Rails applications and have grown [...]
When Slingshot ships, Joyent will use a dual license model similar to Trolltech, MySQL, and Sleepycat.
Open Source and/or Free
Slingshot will be open-sourced under the GPL and available to anyone with a publicly available service that is free (advertising is “ok”) running on the Rails platform. An example of this type of application is Twitter. [...]
Here’s how you do it. First, you take what is considered a pinnacle of x86 server design, the glorious x4200 where every single chip has been selected for maximum reliability and performance. Like, say, the quad on-board Intel Gigabit Ethernet chips. Then, you create a new revision called the x4200 “M2” and replace the first [...]
Read More»Mark Mayo on:
Why does Joyent use F5 load balancers?
How F5 load balancers help us make mongrels better
F5 iRules
Solaris and iSCSI: the problems with the iSCSI target
Solaris and the dual license (CDDL and GPL): the problems for the development community
Does the Linux community care about what’s happening in OpenSolaris?
The reason to be license compatible with Linux? [...]
