Joyent Blog
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#ScaleFAIL: The Greatest Danger for Early Startups by Rachel BalikAug16
The best way to lose users is to make them wait.
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Big Data and the Art of Failing Better by Rachel BalikJul10
Why more data analysis at a low cost means more innovation and better business decisions
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Before You Move the Needle, You Need to Move the Scale by Rachel BalikJul5
By making things simpler, Manta lets you do complicated things faster.
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What People Are Saying About Manta by rachelbalikJun28
From our own engineers to the community at large, here's what people think of Manta
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The Future of Big Data is Asking Dumb Questions by rachelbalikJun21
In order to find out what the right questions are, we've got to ask the wrong ones.
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The Four Keys of Cloud Security: Confidentiality by Carlos CardenasMay14
Confidentiality is a key security for cloud providers and their customers, but not all best practices are good enough.
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You Better Love the One You're With by Kate ReedMay10
Do you love your cloud provider enough to take the blame when it goes down?
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Automating Configuration Management with Chef by rachelbalikMar4
Learn how to automate configuration management and provisioning using Chef.
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Nodejitsu and Joyent: We Feel the Need for Speed by rachelbalikFeb7
In 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.
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Cloud Performance Counts - ReelSurfer the Viral Video Site by joyentireneFeb5
Video 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.
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The Client-Server Model and the Internet of Things by rachelbalikFeb4
Engineering 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.
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Exams + Homework = Fun studying application from Quizlet by joyentireneJan31
Making 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.
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Joyent Takes Gaming Companies to the Next Level by rachelbalikJan30
When 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.
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Developing High-Velocity, Big Data Apps with Cloudant and Joyent by joyentireneJan29
Join 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.
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Moonshadow Mobile offers visual technology on Joyent Cloud by joyentireneJan29
Everyone 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.
