Blog node

July 25, 2017

Edgemesh CEO, Jake Loveless and Joyent CTO, Bryan Cantrill join together for a fireside chat to discuss distributed caching at scale, Docker, Node.js, Mystery Science Theater 3000, and more!

January 19, 2017

An exploration of the Node.js journey that Joyent embarked on. Also, on overview of the various projects where Joyent uses Node.js. Furthermore, this post describes the benefits of choosing Node.js for microservices.

January 12, 2017

Learn microservices, Node.js, and containers by example using the provided application. This post walks through an example application that is split out into Node.js microservices running in Docker containers.

November 9, 2016

After reviewing hundreds of applications from talented tech innovators, we’re pleased to announce the 2nd annual Node.js and Docker Innovator Program finalists. Follow along during coming year as we highlight these tech innovators, learn why they selected Node.js and Docker, and share their production best practices and user stories. One of these finalists will also be honoured with the Innovator of the Year award.

October 11, 2016

A tutorial on upgrading Node.js v0.10 and v0.12 to v4 or v6.

September 26, 2016

An overview of post-mortem debugging pitfalls when using promises.

September 21, 2016

Building a simple Hello World application with ContainerPilot and the AutoPilot Pattern using Node.js.

September 20, 2016

A tutorial on debugging Node.js core dumps with MDB.

September 8, 2016

An overview of how to build observable Node.js applications. The solutions presented are useful for designing and building reliable and more debuggable applications, especially those applications that are microservice oriented.

September 1, 2016

Introducing two new modules to make implementing Autopilot Pattern applications in Node.js even easier.

March 15, 2016

Enjoy bare metal performance with Joyent's latest releases of Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Percona running container-native on Triton.

March 3, 2016

Deploying containerized applications and connecting them together is a challenge because it forces developers to design for operationalization. Autopiloting applications are a powerful design pattern to solving these problems. By pushing the responsibility for understanding startup, shutdown, scaling, and recovery from failure into the application, we can build intelligent architectures that minimize human intervention in operation. But we can't rewrite all our applications at once, so we need a way to build application containers that can knit together legacy and greenfield applications alike. This project demonstrates the autopilot pattern by applying it to a simple microservices deployment using Nginx and two Node.js applications.

January 18, 2016

Dave Jensen, Founder of Road Rules, explains why Road Rules selected Node.js and how they leverage the runtime for their innovative new app.

December 10, 2015

Joyent has been running Node.js in production and at scale for over 5 years. As such, we've learned production practices for designing, deploying and debugging Node.js apps and we've built container-native solutions to optimize app performance, security, and management. Experience the container-native difference!

June 16, 2015

This week marks my first full year as CEO of Joyent. As at any company, the job description is multifaceted.