Archive of 'February, 2009'

Google App Engine Misfit Toys: Come to Jill

Huh?
You’ve got to be kidding (from today’s O’Reilly Radar):

Google released App Engine less than a year ago (Radar post). It was the first chance for external developers to use the power of Google’s servers. The powerful platform supported Python and was free (within limits). It now supports 45,000 apps and those apps get over 100 [...]

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Open, Loving, Just Workingness: The Smart Platform and Javascript

About a month ago Joyent acquired Reasonably Smart and we were happy with the breadth of the coverage (e.g. @GigaOm). Much of the feedback was positive and there were also some important questions and comments: many around “what is open?” and the current choice of Javascript as the server-side programming language for the platform.
There were [...]

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Thank you for the Feedback!

I/We wanted to thank everybody who was so kind to provide input over the past 5 – 6 days – here and through other vehicles. I have noted both the positive and negative. I will use both in formulating the go forward strategy.
Instead of commenting directly on each person’s input, I wanted to [...]

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Update and Call For Topic Suggestions

Hello Joyeurs
Having now spent a little over 4 weeks as the new VP Marketing at Joyent, I have to say that I am very excited about where the company is going in 2009. The Zeus announcement is only the beginning. Over the next several months you will see exciting new products, valuable new [...]

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Scalable Traffic Direction and Load Balancing in the “Cloud” with Zeus and Joyent

Last night Zeus and Joyent announced the offering of ZXTM inside Zeus accelerators.
There are some interesting things to note about the offering, the relationship and how the Zeus accelerators work. It also marks the beginning of networked “appliances” being offered at Joyent and a new delivery mechanism and model for Zeus.
Zeus, as you may [...]

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