Developers
Joyent provides services and information for developers building the next great Web applications. Accelerators are great building blocks whether you are developing in Ruby, PHP, Python, Java, Erlang, or C. Built on top of OpenSolaris and powered by the best infrastructure money can buy, you can focus on developing a great application rather than worrying about managing growth and scale.
Starting at $45/month, you can develop on the same Accelerator infrastructure that powers your application when you scale.
Joyent Labs
Joyent Labs is a place to learn, test, and experiment. Joyent is committed to working with ISV’s and business partners to test and document various platforms and software then share that information with the rest of the Joyent Community. Joyent Labs is also a technical advisory board that brings together key innovators with perspectives vital to Joyent’s products and services. Twice a year, the members of Joyent Labs spend time together asking “what if” questions pertinent to a whole range of open source issues and their application to our customers’ needs.
Currently, there are HPC experiments, Distributed Computing Platforms, Distributed Database, and other very interesting projects going on in the labs.
Enter the Joyent Labs for more information and update.
Free Accelerators for Opensocial Developers
We have partnered with opensocial networks to provide free scalable, on-demand infrastructure to developers. Joyent’s Accelerator on-demand infrastructure provides the very best load balancers, routing and switching fabric, x86 servers and storage. Opensocial developers can take advantage of Joyent Accelerators to quickly launch applications capable of scaling to millions of users. All for free. Sign Up Now »
Free Accelerators for Facebook Developers
Facebook, Joyent and Sun have partnered to provide free scalable, on-demand infrastructure from Joyent to Facebook developers. Joyent’s Accelerator on-demand infrastructure (peered with Facebook’s datacenter!) provides the very best load balancers, routing and switching fabric, x86 servers and storage from Dell. Facebook developers can take advantage of Joyent Accelerators to quickly launch Facebook applications capable of scaling to millions of users. All for free. Sign Up Now »
Joyent Supported Projects
Ruby on Rails
Since Joyent’s applications (Connector, BingoDisk) are written in Rails, and we run our applications on Accelerators – the exact same infrastructure we sell to customers (say “hello” if our bits pass each other in the digital hall) – you can be sure that we know how to get the most out of Ruby on Rails applications.
Connector
Joyent Connector Source code is now available under the GPL v2 License. Want a better email client on the web? You can add those features to Joyent Connector Mail. Want to use the best web calendar? Help build Joyent Connector Calendar. And we even offer a free account so that you can contribute and use your code on Joyent’s hosted infrastructure. Let’s not wait for G***le or Y***o or M*N or someone else to give us the web we want. We can do that now. Does your mother have a feature request to make the calendar better? Now you can do it. And have your work used and appreciated by people around the world.
Slingshot
Joyent Slingshot allows developers to deploy Rails applications like a standard desktop application, which work online and offline (with synchronization), have drag and drop, and interact with all the other desktop applications.
We have provided an overview of the basic architecture and example applications that will help you understand what is going on as you move your application into Slingshot. It is all stored on a wiki, so feel free to edit, contribute and participate in the conversations over there.
DTrace
We have put together a site to aggregate Joyent’s efforts around getting DTrace enabled probes throughout our entire system (in interpreted languages and databases) where you will have access to a repository of different DTrace scripts for looking at application stacks.
It also provides a ticketing system, documentation and subversion commit rights to people interested in creating and maintaining different functional DTrace scripts.
For more information, please visit us at Joyent’s DTrace Site
OpenID
Joyent runs OpenID servers so that the developers we serve will be able to use a common authentication service for their Web applications.
Codesnippets
Codesnippets is a public source code repository. Easily build up your personal collection of code snippets, categorize them with tags / keywords, and share them with the world (or not, you can keep them private!).