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»In the last part of this series we ended by talking about 6 “simple” utilities that software uses on “servers”. They were
1) CPU space
2) Memory space
3) Disc space
4) Memory bus IO
5) Disc IO
6) Network IO
Along with their natural minimums (zero) and maximums.
Providing compute units that do these utilities
What we’ve always wanted [...]
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»This video from a Frontline documentary speaks volumes about what the state-of-the-art is for computers providing autoscale in the cloud. It still comes down to piloting (architectures).
Read More»Yesterday several members of Joyent’s team attended Structure ’08. Jason Hoffman was on a panel that produced some interesting debate about whether clouds should aim to be open. The story was even picked up by the Wall Street Journal’s Don Clark in an article entitled Finding A Friendly Cloud
Jason Hoffman, [...]
Read More»Here’s a video detailing how LinkedIn built an application (Bumpersticker on the Facebook platform) using Rails (and C Ruby!) that serves up more than 1 billion page views a month.
In my opinion, this ends the debate about whether Rails scales. Rails is a component, it is how the components are architected and delivered that [...]
In the Fall of 2006, I wrote a piece On Grids, the Ambitions of Amazon and Joyent, and followed up with Why EC2 isn’t yet a platform for ‘normal’ web applications and the recognition that When you’re really pushing traffic, Amazon S3 is more expensive than a CDN.
The point of these previous articles was to [...]
Andy Greenberg just wrote a piece called Tiny Firms Offer Big Computing Services in which Joyent gets a little shout out.
The word ‘tiny’ in the title makes me giggle a bit as I guess five (5) billion page views a month on our infrastructure is considered tiny to some folks. Has me wondering how many [...]
When I used to teach university chemistry, I’d always start with the statement:
The universe (at one level) is made of two things and two things only: fermions and bosons.
Fermions are the things that have “stuff”: they have mass and can be charged (or not). Bosons are the things that have no “stuff”: they do not [...]
As you might have heard and likely read in the back-and-forth blogging of Dave Hitz (a NetApp founder) and Jonathan Schwartz (CEO of Sun Microsystems), the two are at each other’s throats. Well not really at each other’s throats: NetApp went nuclear and Sun hit back even harder.
Basically NetApp says that Sun’s ZFS steals it’s [...]
