Mark Mayo of Joyent gave a presentation yesterday evening at a Facebook developer garage in Vancouver, Canada. One statistic from his presentation really stands out. Joyent provides on-demand infrastructure for one application serving nearly one billion page views per month. One billion. Moreover, the infrastructure cost for that application is just over $10K per month. And, if the fickle desires of Facebook users turn away from this customer, they aren’t tied down to a contract. We help people scale up, and scale down.
As Rod said in an earlier post, Joyent is powering 11% of Facebook application usage and growing rapidly. Joyent can do this because the Joyeurs have built a real, open protocol, open standards, professional cloud computer. We have hardware load balancers and high-end routers capable of driving billions of page views across our entire network every month.
I am really proud of what the Joyeurs have accomplished. Congratulations.
P.S. the application is a Rails app. I think these facts put to bed any issues regarding Rails and scaling.
(Photo and blog quote from: Miss 604)
Jason A. Hoffman 
3 responses to “Billions Served: Joyent Accelerators a Real Platform for Growth”
>>>“P.S. the application is a Rails app. I think these facts put to bed any issues regarding Rails and scaling.”
There is a difference between Ruby scaling and Rails scaling.
The web framework Rails is difficult to scale. However, other Ruby frameworks like MERG scale very well.
@Tim I think you meant to refer to Merb
So which app is it? Bumper stickers?