I’m down here helping with a good ‘ole datacenter.
Come on down to The Field at 8ish pm Thursday night. It’s the same place we did the 2005 RubyConf party in San Diego.
Feel free to shoot Jason an email if you’re going to make it and when: jason at joyent dot com
Twitter has been officially off Joyent since 10PM last night. This may come as a surprise to some after yesterday’s posts here and here regarding the two companies working together. Those of us at Joyent appreciate the opportunity we had to work with the talented folks at Twitter. It is a great service. We wish [...]
Read More»Biz Stone at Twitter talks about Joyent. For the Super Bowl, Joyent is providing Twitter with excess capacity — as Twitter needs it — for free. Enjoy the Super Bowl Tweeters.
—Signed: The Joyeurs.
P.S. Since the Cowboys are not in the Super Bowl, I’ll be Twittering about reruns of Heidi.
Mark Mayo of Joyent gave a presentation yesterday evening at a Facebook developer garage in Vancouver, Canada. One statistic from his presentation really stands out. Joyent provides on-demand infrastructure for one application serving nearly one billion page views per month. One billion. Moreover, the infrastructure cost for that application is just over $10K per month. [...]
Read More»In November of last year, we announced that Joyent was teaming with Dell to give away $3.2 Million in Joyent Accelerators to Facebook Developers. Our goal was to give developers the power to quickly create and deploy Facebook applications capable of scaling to millions of users.
So far, the program has succeeded tremendously. [...]
This week we talk about Cloverfield, the Strongspace and Bingodisk issues, Macbook Air, iPhone update, Sun’s MySQL acquisition, your questions, and our New Year’s resolutions.
Podcast feed
iTunes link (thanks to J.D. Justice for providing this to us)
Here’s the link to the mp3 on my BingoDisk account
No music this week.
Ask your questions in the comments. We’ll try to answer in the podcast.
Read More»We have had a fantastic beginning to the year at Joyent. Our revenue continues to grow quickly. We have been gaining new Accelerator customers at a record pace. The Facebook deal is dramatically increasing the size of the Joyent community and is already paying off handsomely as successful start-ups upgrade their Accelerators to serving millions [...]
Read More»Strongspace service has been restored. I will be posting a rather long post tomorrow about what happened, etc. No data was lost. That is thanks to ZFS. Thanks, ZFS.
Update: Strongspace has been panicking on writes to the filesystem. We’ve been talking with Sun, and here’s the latest from Ben:
The answer is that it the “spacemap [...]
Read More»Just a quick note to confirm BingoDisk is online and good to go.
Dave will provide a summary post on what happened shortly.
The Systems team is focused on bringing Strongspace back online. Update coming.
