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Joyent
Company blog · joyent.com/blogsystemsweb
Joyent is the company blog at joyent.com, writing about systems and web. Since 2007, 263 different Hacker News readers have linked it 380 times, most often “The Power of a Pronoun”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Providing core compute, storage, networking and security features and services globally and in line with major cloud provider solutions.
Most-linked posts?
- The Power of a Pronoun19 people · 22 mentions · first linked 2013-11-30
- The Power of a Pronoun18 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2013-12-01
- SmartOS: Converged Container and Virtual Machine Hypervisor9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2016-06-16
- Unikernels are unfit for production9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2016-01-22
- /manta6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2016-06-16
- Docker and the Future of Containers in Production5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-02-04
- Postmortem for July 27 outage of the Manta service5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-08-03
- Hello, Manta: Bringing Unix to Big Data5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-06-25
- Samsung acquires Joyent5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-06-21
- Triton: Docker and the “best of all worlds”4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-03-24
What Hacker News says?
What I was hoping for was a bare-metal (not-run through VMs) container runtime like Joyent Triton[0] but with more pay-for-what-you-use pricing. Unlike VMs, which statically allocate mem whether you use it or not, containers have the chance to grow and reduce mem as workfloads go up and down, which means you could pay for GB/h of mem usage on the right-sized # of vCPU base. Not sure if any IaaS/PaaS is doing this. J…
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on “Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS”Submitted Samsung Acquires Joyent as a story · 787 points
HN discussionFascinating read, albeit a sad one: I love RethinkDB, and use it personally every day in our particular production deployment.[1] But -- and to Slava's point -- we didn't/don't/wouldn't pay for it, and in that regard, we were part of the problem. That said, the constraint on that particular problem was that it had to be open source, and if it couldn't have been RethinkDB, it would have been some other open source da…
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on “RethinkDB Postmortem”Submitted RethinkDB Relicensed under Apache 2.0 as a story · 686 points
HN discussion" Should I use backticks? Command substitutions also come in this form: Correct: "`cmd`" Bad: `cmd` While it is possible to use this style correctly, it looks even more awkward in quotes and is less readable when nested. The consensus around this one is pretty clear: Avoid." This is how one can tell a rookie just learning to program in shell: usage of $() syntax is limited to Bourne family of shells which implement…
Comment linking /blog/building-packages-at-scale
on “Safe ways to do things in bash”Submitted TCP Puzzlers as a story · 468 points
HN discussionFor the record, there is no "proprietary [operating system]" involved here. The Triton stack (upon which Manta is based) runs on top of SmartOS[1], a wholly open source operating system built around an illumos[2] core. [1] https://www.joyent.com/smartos [2] https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate
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on “Samsung Acquires Joyent”Submitted Walmart Node.js Memory Leak as a story · 466 points
HN discussionFrom the CTO's blog post, it seems to me that Samsung became interested in Joyent not for its most famous product, Node.js, but for its new product, Manta, which is some sort of serverless, distributed, data-storage and processing service ( https://www.joyent.com/manta ). Manta might be well-suited for the new hotness, the Internet of Things. So that's how I saw it progressing. Samsung was looking into how to get in…
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on “Samsung Acquires Joyent”Submitted Unikernels are unfit for production as a story · 359 points
HN discussionIn case anyone's curious, I blogged about the backstory of the acquisition.[1] tl;dr: We at Joyent are elated, and we believe that this will be a huge win for our customers, for our technologies and for the communities that they serve! [1] https://www.joyent.com/blog/samsung-acquires-joyent-a-ctos-p...
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on “Samsung Acquires Joyent”Submitted If I was your cloud provider, I'd never let you down as a story · 289 points
HN discussionYou might want to consider Joyent's Smart Data Center. It is all opensource and you can buy support. A lot of the people leaving the engineering teams at Sun/Oracle ended up at Joyent. I think datacenter platforms will start to look more like "Cloud Hosting" and less like it currently does where we basically just slice up a server into many different servers. https://www.joyent.com/private-cloud https://github.com/j…
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on “VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation”Submitted Node.js Best Practices as a story · 220 points
HN discussionI was interested myself, so I did a little google-foo. So Ben Noorddhuis was a major contributor to NodeJS and a volunteer (that is, not a Joyent employee). It turns out Ben rejected a pull request that would have made pronoun in the document gender neutral. The documents were already grammatically correct, but whoever made the pull request had a political preference for using a non masculine pronoun. Ben rightly sa…
Comment linking /blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun
on “Io.js 1.0.0”Submitted Joyent Moves to Establish Node.js Foundation as a story · 215 points
HN discussionHashiCorp also has a pretty complete solution called Atlas : https://www.hashicorp.com/ ( different from the Netflix Atlas http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/12/introducing-atlas-netfli... ) Joyent's Triton looks cool: https://www.joyent.com/ as does CoreOS's Tectonic (built on top of k8s): https://tectonic.com/
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on “How We Build Code at Netflix”Submitted Triton: Docker and the “best of all worlds” as a story · 202 points
HN discussionsome people have problems with they way MVCC is implemented. like Mysql using rollback segments so it doesn't have issues with vacuuming [tho, there is tradeoffs with doing it that way as well]. the vacuuming issues are really scary and basically involve losing write access to the whole database. have a look at stuff like this: https://www.joyent.com/blog/manta-postmortem-7-27-2015 . i believe postgres have made a b…
Comment linking /blog/manta-postmortem-7-27-2015
on “PostgreSQL 11 Released”Submitted Kartlytics: Applying Big Data Analytics to Mario Kart as a story · 167 points
HN discussionthe guy says he's not an idiot then brags about spending $30 per month on a VPS (idiot), You can always go with cheap, fully virtualized GNU/Linux server, or you can go with a virtual, true UNIX server running at the speed of bare metal[1]. Your choice, but quality, correctness of operation, data integrity and performance still cost something. It you don't care about any of those things, fork out $5 for the alternat…
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on “I am a fast webpage”Submitted Error Handling in Node.js as a story · 151 points
HN discussionhttp://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun (context at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6825924 )
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on “Female Founders”Submitted Linux Performance Analysis and Tools and Methodologies as a story · 125 points
HN discussionhttps://www.joyent.com/press/samsung-to-acquire-joyent
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on “Hubris – A small operating system for deeply-embedded computer systems”Submitted The Power of a Pronoun as a story · 123 points
HN discussionThe only type of service which seems comparable is Joyent and hyper seems to be a bit cheaper. https://www.joyent.com/pricing
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on “Hyper.sh – Effortless Docker Hosting”Submitted Error Handling in Nodejs as a story · 86 points
HN discussionI'd be surprised if they didn't leverage something like the SmartOS container capabilities https://www.joyent.com/smartos
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on “Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence”Submitted Postmortem for outage of us-east-1 as a story · 83 points
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