Archive of 'April, 2009'
As I mentioned last week, Joyent and Sun Startup Essentials teamed-up to sponsor the JSConf in Arlington, VA last week. I got back from the conference on Sunday, happy to be home, but full of energy from the conference. It was a great two days – lots of interesting people and lots of interesting talks. Chris and Laura Williams did an amazing job of putting on such a great event – the quality of the conference everything surrounding the conference would suggest that they were old hands at arranging things like this – apparently not the case however! Thanks, and well done, again.
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I remember back in 2006 my good friend Greg McCarroll was involved in setting up the first London JavaScript Night – an evening of technical talks about anything JavaScript related in London. Anyway, it was a great night, well attended – about 50 people, which was way more people than was expected at the [...]
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In the last part of this series we ended by talking about 6 “simple” utilities that software uses on “servers”. They were
1) CPU space
2) Memory space
3) Disc space
4) Memory bus IO
5) Disc IO
6) Network IO
Along with their natural minimums (zero) and maximums.
Providing compute units that do these utilities
What we’ve always wanted [...]
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It’s nice to get great customer feedback:
This weekend, I wrote a humorous piece entitled “Moses is Departing
Egypt: A Facebook Haggaddah.” Not having easy access to any other
hosting service, I stored it on my Joyent Accelerator account. (I am
very glad that your terms of service permit this, so long as my
Facebook application is being tested.) This [...]
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