August 16, 2013
#ScaleFAIL: The Greatest Danger for Early Startups by Rachel BalikThe best way to lose users is to make them wait.
July 10, 2013
Big Data and the Art of Failing Better by Rachel BalikWhy more data analysis at a low cost means more innovation and better business decisions
July 5, 2013
Before You Move the Needle, You Need to Move the Scale by Rachel BalikBy making things simpler, Manta lets you do complicated things faster.
June 28, 2013
What People Are Saying About Manta by rachelbalikFrom our own engineers to the community at large, here's what people think of Manta
June 21, 2013
The Future of Big Data is Asking Dumb Questions by rachelbalikIn order to find out what the right questions are, we've got to ask the wrong ones.
May 14, 2013
The Four Keys of Cloud Security: Confidentiality by Carlos CardenasConfidentiality is a key security for cloud providers and their customers, but not all best practices are good enough.
May 10, 2013
You Better Love the One You're With by Kate ReedDo you love your cloud provider enough to take the blame when it goes down?
March 4, 2013
Automating Configuration Management with Chef by rachelbalikLearn how to automate configuration management and provisioning using Chef.
February 7, 2013
Nodejitsu and Joyent: We Feel the Need for Speed by rachelbalikIn the past year, journalists, enterprise organizations and forward-thinking developers everywhere are realizing that Node.js is more than just a passing fad: It’s ready for the big time. But long before some of the world’s biggest and fastest growing companies were building in Node, Nodejitsu was providing a platform for developers to deploy and host their Node apps.
February 5, 2013
Cloud Performance Counts - ReelSurfer the Viral Video Site by joyentireneVideo is now the king of content. However, there’s not enough time to watch a video. 4-minute videos can make us squirm in our chairs or reach for our smartphone to check email. Even if you have not heard of ReelSurfer, you probably have watched a mash-up or one of its viral videos. ReelSurfer is a free online service that lets anyone clip and share any video from any website.
February 4, 2013
The Client-Server Model and the Internet of Things by rachelbalikEngineering often requires a heads down focus on very small, detailed problems. But innovation often requires thinking very, very big - sometimes bigger than we even realize we need to think.
January 31, 2013
Exams + Homework = Fun studying application from Quizlet by joyentireneMaking studying fun is almost impossible, partially because everyone learns differently. Despite the odds, Quizlet has done it. How? They’ve taken the simple concept of a “Study set,” which can be input onto flashcards, and created a vibrant community that shares and learns these sets in various study modes and competitive games.
January 30, 2013
Joyent Takes Gaming Companies to the Next Level by rachelbalikWhen it comes to gaming, surprises are often part of the fun: You never what’s just around the corner or what challenges you’ll find in the next level. But for mobile and social game makers, surprises are often the cause of a whole lot of problems, especially when it comes to traffic to a site.
January 29, 2013
Developing High-Velocity, Big Data Apps with Cloudant and Joyent by joyentireneJoin us to hear Cloudant's Chief Scientist, Mike Miller who hails from Boston to speak about developing a high-velocity, Big Data apps with Cloudant running on Joyent SmartOS.
January 29, 2013
Moonshadow Mobile offers visual technology on Joyent Cloud by joyentireneEveryone has heard how political campaigns use social media to win votes, but what about using Big Data? Moonshadow Mobile offers cutting-edge technology that allows political supporters to run mapping and geospatial visualization technology on desktop platforms and smartphones.