Archive of 'April, 2008'

Joyent Developer Days: Proposed Cities

We are working on a series of one-day developer events to be held around the U.S. (to start*), that will include seminars and plenty of opportunities to hack on a few things.
The day itself will vary in format from location to location, but the goal is the same: bring the Joyent developer community closer together, [...]

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Codesnippets: A Place to Share Code

We’ve recently moved Textsnippets to Codesnippets and gave it a big face lift. Codesnippets is a place for developers to share code, solutions to problems, tutorials, techniques. And it is free.

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Mi casa es su casa…most of the time. Joyeur commenting ‘policy’.

Joyeur has a diverse audience with different sensibilities and opinions, and we tend to give folks a very long rope when leaving comments here on Joyeur.
Just please remember this is our home and we ask that you play nicely once you walk through the door. Good blog commenters add to the discussion and [...]

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This is going to be big…

We’ve been working with Aptana on their Aptana Cloud offering, coming soon. The Joyent Master Control Program API was used to build the cloud. More later. But this is going to be big. Build in Aptana Studio, deploy and auto-scale on the cloud.

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We’re Looking for OpenSolaris SysAdmins in a Pacific Rim Timezone

If you are a great OpenSolaris sysadmin, and live in a pacific rim timezone (e.g. India to Korea), looking to enhance your career, we’d be happy to chat with you about opportunities at Joyent. Please respond to jobs [at] joyent [dot] com.

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Rod Boothby Talks Cloud Computing at Web 2.0 Expo

Rod and I also held several interviews at the show – including Tim O’Reilly, Kevin Marks, Steve Gillmore, Dan Farber, and Rafe Needleman trying to get public opinion on ‘What is Cloud Computing’. We will be posting that video shortly as there is some good stuff in there.
Disclosure: That handsome fella interviewing him happens [...]

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DTrace, MySQL, Ganglia, and Digging for Solutions

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 [...]

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Meet us at the Blogtropol.us

Rod Boothby and I will be hanging out in the Blogtropol.us Bloggers Lounge at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on Wednesday, April 23rd (tomorrow) and Friday, April 25th.
We’ll have video camera in hand and would love to hear some of your success stories launching your applications and/or websites on Joyent, and might even [...]

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Joyent se ha aliado con Google, MySpace, hi5, Vostu, Sonico, Globant, Mentez y Adobe para el Tour Latinoamérica de OpenSocial para ayudar a los desarrolladores a iniciarse con OpenSocial y explicar el potencial de OpenSocial a los mercaderistas en Argentina y Brasil.
Los eventos listados a continuación son de gratuita asistencia y consistirán en hackathons, competencias [...]

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The wonders of fb:ref and iRules: Serving pages from Facebook’s cache

I wanted to introduce or remind everyone of the fb:ref markup tag and how through the use of iRules in our BIG-IPs we can offload the serving of common pages to facebook’s cache.
Importantly this can happen without having to hit or rewrite your application, and is implemented in really fast, robust, edge “application switches”.
iRules
At [...]

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