Joyeur: archive

Joyent Weblog

2008

July

Joyent is Hiring

June

A Loving Cloud
1 Billion Page Views a Month
Joyent Summer Sale
Beat Email Bankruptcy in Three Easy Steps
Plurk

May

Joyent Presents Application Hosting Options at Upcoming Social Media Business Schools
SysAdmin Job at Free Software Foundation
Things I'll Need in iPhone 2.0. Or, the iPhone Review That's Nearly One Year Old
Joyent Official Sponsor of the Django Dash Competiton
Joyent Pint Night (at RailsConf2008)
Touch a Joyeur: Upcoming Events
Amazon Web Services or Joyent Accelerators: Reprise
Google Friend Connect Site on Joyent Accelerators
Cloud Nine: Specification for a Cloud Computer. A Call to Action.
Triathlon Experience with Fellow Joyeurs
What is Cloud Computing?

April

Joyent Developer Days: Proposed Cities
Codesnippets: A Place to Share Code
Touch a Joyeur: Upcoming Events
Mi casa es su casa...most of the time. Joyeur commenting 'policy'.
This is going to be big...
We're Looking for OpenSolaris SysAdmins in a Pacific Rim Timezone
Rod Boothby Talks Cloud Computing at Web 2.0 Expo
DTrace, MySQL, Ganglia, and Digging for Solutions
Meet us at the Blogtropol.us
Enlace de Suramérica con las Hackathons OpenSocial
The wonders of fb:ref and iRules: Serving pages from Facebook's cache
Top 3 Keys to Viral Apps on Facebook
Buy Denim, Save on Accelerators
Want to be part of the Microsoft Cloud Team?
Joyent's Garden of Eden for Python Web Applications
Let my People Have Root
Reminder: Joyent IRC Channel
30% Plan to add Facebook as Marketing Channel
Free Accelerators for OpenSocial Developers

March

Joyeur Bytes: Issue 5
Joyent Mentioned in Forbes.com
Apple Needs to Innovate
Joyent Supports Free Software
Touch a Joyeur: Upcoming Events
Joyent Supports hi5 and Open Social
Light Engineering
Joyent Players' Club

February

DTrace (un)conference in San Francisco: March 14th
Quad Core (Episode 3)
Podcasting Live Today (11:30am PST)
Jason's interviewed in ACM Queue
Fermions, Bosons and the 6 Utilities
Go B.I.G. now: Spring Sale on Accelerators
Touch a Joyeur: Upcoming Events
50 New Accelerators in One Go
20%-50% off Joyent Accelerator Upgrades (for Facebook Developers)
Joyent and Mentez Announce Partnership for Facebook and OpenSocial Developers
16bit SxSW Interactive Party
Customer Spotlight: The Heart Gallery
Rock Band + a Wee Bit of Scotch = Entertainment for Kristie
Joyeur Meetup, 2008
Joyeur Bytes: Issue 4

January

Jason is in San Diego Thursday night
Twitter and Joyent: Update
Twittering the Super Bowl
Billions Served: Joyent Accelerators a Real Platform for Growth
Joyent powers 11% of Facebook App users
New Podcast: Quad Core (Episode 2)
Podcasting Now (2:45PM Pacific)
Bingodisk and Strongspace: What Happened?
Strongspace Back
Hello BingoDisk.
Sponsoring the RailsQuickStart Seminar
Strongspace and Bingodisk: Update
Touch a Joyeur: Upcoming Events

2007

December

Joyent Meetup (Miami)
Jason Interviewed by 89.3 KPCC: The End of Multitasking?
The Crunchies: Nominate Joyent
New Podcast: Quad Core (Episode 1)
December Accelerator Sale
What can you do with free?
Fail Fast = Start-up Success

November

Apple TV: What it is
Cloud Computing Infrastructure for Facebook Developers on Dell Servers. What does it mean?
$3.2M give away of Joyent Accelerators for Facebook Developers
Joyent: Working Conditions
The New Apple "Tablet"

October

Quo vadis, Computing. A Joyent Manifesto.
NetApp versus Sun, Sun versus NetApp, and Both versus Common Sense
Joyent DTrace Probes for Ruby in Apple's Leopard
ps pipe grep: Episode 21 (She's Out of My Life)
ps pipe grep: Episode 20 (Alles ist gut.)
Google Wins Patent For Data Center In A Box
Graphing Social Patterns: Joyent Web Application Presentation
Touch a Joyeur: Upcoming Events
Using DTrace on MySQL

September

Dean Spotting
Quick wins with MySQL
Virtualization is more than just consolidation
Touch a Joyeur: Upcoming Events
Vote for Strongspace: Best Online Backup Service
More Classics in Tech Writing: A Literary Suggestion

August

Want a chance at a year free on a Joyent 'L' Accelerator?
A Ticker Symbol Tip-off: why operating systems don't matter. (Or chip architectures. Or the speed of RAM.)
Using DTrace-enabled Python in a Joyent Accelerator
ps pipe grep: Episode 19 (Talk Talk)
Sneak Peek: Notification Notifications
Who is your Justin Timberlake?
Joyeur Meetups: Berlin and Paris
When you're really pushing traffic, Amazon S3 is more expensive than a CDN
Joyeur Bytes: Issue 2
BarCamp Block Party: August 18th and 19th
Open Sourced Connector: A $5 million gift?
ps pipe grep: Episode 18 (Trial and Error)
If you're a startup in China or India...
Upcoming Slingshot Roadmap
Information Week discovers the Joyent 'Platform'
Taco Tuesday Reminder
"Is language X scalable? I heard that it isn't"

July

JRuby Hack Day: August 8, 2007
Project Indiana (OpenSolaris) Session at OSCON 2007
The benefits of IMAP and open: iPhone and Joyent Mail
Upcoming Events: Tacos, Tech and a bit of Beer
Ruby / Rails community building in action
Joyent Connector: Free + Open
Just what web server should be sitting in front of my Rails application?
Connector and Slingshot Open-sourced and Free
Connector has ICS support? What the heck is ICS?

June

And the Joyent diet contest winner is...
No comment. No comment.
Why EC2 isn't yet a platform for "normal" web applications
Jason Hoffman interviewed by SYS-CON TV
OpenSolaris Community Picnic This Weekend
Introduction to the OpenSolaris Operating System
The Annual or Whatever WWDC-related Joyent Midnight Cheesestick and Beer Run
Getting Started with JRuby
Connector sbarca in Italia
I used to think Guy Kawasaki was smart
Joyeur Meetup: New York City, June 5

May

Accelerator VC200 Promotion Officially Over
Der Connector Spricht Deutsch
Speedo Tip Of The Week
geekSessions and Taco Thursday
GoreRig(tm)
ps pipe grep: Episode 16 (Conference)
Slides for my RailsConf talk: "Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom Up"
Joyent Connector to be Open Sourced
Celebrating TextDrive's Three Years
Joyent at RailsConf 2007
DTrace Repository and BOF at RailsConf
DTrace for Ruby 1.8.6
DTrace for Ruby is available
ps pipe grep: Episode 15 (Product Catalog)
Slingshot (Public Release)

April

Joyent Announces Sun Hosting Partnership and New Hosting Service Discounts for Startups
OK nginx is cool
Solaris, DTrace and Rails
It is the last Tuesday of the month.
ps pipe grep: Episode 14 (sudo find -f / | wc -l)
Separated at birth?
On Accelerators
Joyent To Offer Open Source Version of Slingshot
How to completely ruin a great piece of server kit (regarding the Sun X4200 M2)
Side of Mayo: Episode 1
ps pipe grep: Episode 13 (Sudden Death)
Play nicely or we'll kick your butt...
Thinking about uptime numbers for the top 20 websites
Fatboy Ambien: The Manhattan
Slingshot Apologia: We Didn't Design Slingshot for Planes

March

Joyent is looking for a couple of sysadmins
Joyent Slingshot
Discount passes to Under The Radar: "Why Office 2.0 Matters"
ps pipe grep Episode 12 (Champion)
A Twitter Novella
Jason is at SXSW in Austin, and this is where I'll be
My Heart Twitters When I See This Chart
PS Pipe Grep: Next Week
Accelerators Now Start at US$45

February

Joyent and Corel Announce Partnership to Deliver Joyent Connector to users of Corel WordPerfect Lightning
The Comprehensive Erlang Archive Network
Joyent.com: Now With More Jill
Joyent Connector: Winter Menu
BingoDisk: Two New Plans (10 and 15 GB Versions), and Unlimited Bandwidth
ps pipe grep: episode 11 (Imagine)
Multiple Team Membership Coming
ps pipe grep: episode 10 (Have mercy)
A brief update with some numbers for hardware load-balanced mongrels
The 10% "rule" for infrastructure costs
Joyent will be at UNDER THE RADAR | Why Office 2.0 Matters
Jason Hoffman will be doing a tutorial at RailsConf 2007 in Portland

January

ps pipe grep: episode 9 (All the time)
"...control buttons fixed in plastic..."
Joyent Core: Live
Nordstrom's Line of Cash Registers

2006

December

ps pipe grep: episode 8 (New Low)
Ben Rockwood on Some OpenSolaris Experiences at Joyent
Benr & Shanr: Episode 7
Utility? Or Generator in the Back Yard?
ps pipe grep: episode 7 (Lucky)
Benr & Shanr: Episode 6
Ottawa, Canada Meetup (15 December 2006)
Holiday Card: from Arizona
ps pipe grep: episode 6
Origins of ZFS
Holiday Cards from Joyeur
Bingo Bandwidth Bonanza
Benr & Shanr: Episode 5
Feel Free to Call

November

Lanzamiento de Joyent Connector en Español
Introducing Joyent Bookmarks
ps pipe grep: episode 5
On Grids, the Ambitions of Amazon and Joyent
Benr & Shanr: Episode 4
ps pipe grep: episode 4 (contest episode)
Ben & Shanr: Episode 3
Strongspace+SftpDrive
ps pipe grep: episode 3
9.5 hours until Java is open-sourced
Benr & Shanr: Episode 2
ps pipe grep: episode 2
Thumpers are a better deal than "cheap" Apple XRaids
For only $375, you too can find out about the 8 core principles of Web 2.0 and more!
Introducing Benr & Shanr
Official: I am leaving Ubuntu for Windows Vista
Stuff I came across during the last week in October
ps pipe grep: episode 1

October

Sun's Project Orangebox
Joyent Affiliate Program
Are Lines of Code really a measure of either success, productivity or popularity?
Strongspace meet Thumpers, Thumpers meet Strongspace
The Grid Containers take another step down in price
The curious tendency of decaying grape leaves to resemble birds, noted on recent morning walks
Seattle, WA Meetup This Friday (27 Oct)
Ten Loaded Questions: David Young
New UI Preview
Broader Cloth
Bingo: Now available in 50 and 25 gigabyte versions
Introducing Joyent Core
Joyent Wins Best Office 2.0 Suite Award
Accelerators and Bingo

September

Falkner Winery: Hands off! Unless you ply me with wine.
Why does this Resonate with Me?
Jason Hoffman's European Rails Conf Presentation
Pepperiness
Entrepreneurs: examine your time-allocation schedules
Joyent and the Sun X4500
Virtually There
Sun Launch Video
London Meetup Reminder
Bingo!
Tony Jaa kicks all kinds of ass
From Super Secret to Super Yacht
The JRuby guys get hired by Sun
More Thumper, More Beer, And Everything is Clear
Dell sells EMC storage

August

The Prayer of a Joyeur upon hearing Eric Schmidt, Doctor of Science, Joined Apple's Board
A brief geeking interlude: A real mixed grill
Erlang processes are human too
Oh Thumpers, Oh Thumpers
Evaluating proxy engines and load balancers for mongrel-driven ruby on rails applications: an introduction and an open call
Thin Provisioning in ZFS
Kiko Sold
Goodnight Zune: Bill finally calls it quits. For children.
Some Seed Fell on Rocky Ground: L'affaire Kiko
Thanks for the Techcrunchy party
Google Analytics is very very very nice (now)
Kiko Calendar is up for sale on ebay
We'll be in London in September for RailsConf Europe 2006
Post-WWDC meetup
Single Rider Volunteer

July

A Revolution that Fits in a Trunk
A mongrel endorsement and A manual fix for installing mongrel on Solaris 10/11
T-shirts Are Here
Suddenly This Summer

June

Joyent Connector: a collection of tools
How One Flies
Sunshine
Visitors in the House
Joyent Announcements
Dean Allen, 40.0

May

Copenhagen Meetup This Saturday
Finding our drink. Still waiting for our NIC.
The Scale with Rails Workshops
By popular demand, the plain FSCK You shirts are out
What sysadmins start doing when hanging around designers
OK MARS it is
DTrace through a rails app
The Joyent Store
Scale With Rails Conferences

April

Hoffman Funny
20 Minutes to Success
Federation Square
Can you check my math? (Perhaps we'll also call this, "What's in a web server"?)
Jason Hoffman speaking at the Silicon Valley Ruby Conference
I'm moving to Argentina
EyeSpot: Video Editor in JavaScript
Three Martinis
Joyful JavaScript
Iconic
More on the "Non-Design" Movement

March

Mexican Coke
I'm just amazed by how many people
I Wish Tim O'Reilly Was My Dad
Hey, We're Official!
Cheesesteak
Using Tags for Following Comment Threads
4573553
Tortilla Soup
More on Google’s Graphic Design
The Sun Doesn’t Shine on Me
Offline Web Applications
I'll Have That Hosted, Thanks
[In a loud voice] Ich bin die Stimme!
The Non-Design of Google’s Software
Logotypery
Database Decisions Made Easy
My Video Ipod Story
In town for ETech?
Public Betas Are a Sham

February

SF Tech Sessions
Plus de Gras
On Campfires
Dale’s Pale Ale
Nachos
Blink
The Fatboy BBQ

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