For the past month I’ve been using four different cell phones behind the excellent Google Voice service. One phone number, four phones. The four phones are the Apple iPhone 3G (iPhone OS), the Nokia N97 (Symbian), the HTC G1 (Android), and the Palm Pre (Web OS). I use the iPhone on the AT&T network, the [...]
Read More»Last week we announced the MySQL accelerators and scalable architecture offerings. Like the Zeus Accelerators, this is a continuation of our goal to offer individual servers and entire architectures of known performance. What one really wants from an entire infrastructure is for it to simply do what you need it to do. Not to be [...]
Read More»Whether or not Apple releases a Netbook (=sub $500 fullish keyboard portable), this class of device is ultimately deadly to the likes of Apple and Microsoft. Why? Netbooks aren’t mini-powerful laptops. The are powerful browser-app platforms and they accelerate the adoption of browser-based applications. No one (really) uses a netbook to run Photoshop, or even [...]
Read More»In the first part of this series I made a key list of some of the underlying ideas at Joyent, that we believe that a company or even a small development team should be able to:
Participate in a multi-tenant service
Have your own instantiations of this service
Install (and “buy”) the software to run on your own [...]
The “Answer Questions about Jason” contest was a success and all the contest winner received a free entry-level Joyent Accelerator. Congratulations. I was proud to give away Accelerators to celebrate the launch of JSBin on Joyent.
Keeping with the free theme, we will be expanding the number of free slots we have open for developers of [...]
With this post, I’m starting a series where we’re going to be much more explicit about what we’re thinking, what we’re doing, how we’re doing it and where we’re going. I’m not interested in any of it being thought of as impersonal “marketing material”, so I hope you’ll allow the occasional use of [...]
Read More»We have been asked a number of times whether Joyent is going to the South-by-Southwest Interactive (aka SXSW) festival this year. The answer is “no”. All Joyent employees are, in fact, banned from SXSW for the following lucky seven reasons:
1) Drinking. There is lots and lots of drinking of alcoholic beverages. I think this is [...]
JS Bin is a very useful utility offering collaborative JavaScript debugging. From the About section:
JS Bin allows you to edit and test JavaScript and HTML (reloading the URL also maintains the state of your code – new tabs doesn’t). Once you’re happy you can save, and send the URL to a peer for review or [...]
Read More»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 [...]
Read More»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 [...]
