Fried chicken, waffles and ribs in Memphis
At Polly’s on Beale street
Yahoo Post: “Multi-Core HTTP Server with NodeJS”
The Yahoo! Developer Blog has a nice post about node.js on how they’re running node.js A good comment on news ycombinator: Node.js lets you write server applications in a server container that can handle tens of thousands of concurrent connections in a loosely typed language like Javascript which lets you code faster. It uses the … Continue reading Yahoo Post: “Multi-Core HTTP Server with NodeJS”
EMC bought Greenplum
EMC said today that it will acquire private data warehousing company Greenplum in an all-cash transaction, though the terms of the deal were not released. It said that Greenplum will “form the foundation of a new data computing product division within EMC’s Information Infrastructure business.” It’s no secret that digital data is on the rise, … Continue reading EMC bought Greenplum
On Solaris
Over the years that I’ve been developing on unix platforms I’ve come in contact with quite a few… Linux (from 2.2 upwards), FreeBSD (version 4 upwards), Solaris (8, 9, 10 on both SPARC and x86), OS X, AIX, HPUX and even VMS. Even though I’ve come into contact with these I’ve not really gotten to … Continue reading On Solaris
Triple Parity Raid
In an effort to catch up on links. Adam talks about triple parity RAID (raidz3) in an ACM queue article. When RAID systems were developed in the 1980s and 1990s, reconstruction times were measured in minutes. The trend for the past 10 years is quite clear regardless of the drive speed or its market segment: … Continue reading Triple Parity Raid
You’re Doing it Wrong by PHK
PHK’s You’re Doing It Wrong Think you’ve mastered the art of server performance? Think again. Would you believe me if I claimed that an algorithm that has been on the books as “optimal” for 46 years, which has been analyzed in excruciating detail by geniuses like Knuth and taught in all computer science courses in … Continue reading You’re Doing it Wrong by PHK
On Cloud Standards, Transparency and Data Mobility
I was on a panel last week talking about the role of infrastructure and “The Cloud” in online gaming (and I’m talking “fun” games, like Farmville, not online gambling). One of the questions was “What do you think about cloud interoperability and standards?”. To which I asked, “What do you mean?” “Well, what do you … Continue reading On Cloud Standards, Transparency and Data Mobility
The “Cloud” is supposed to be better than the “Real”
In my weekly reading of posts around this mighty collection of tubes, pipes and cans connected by shoestrings, the thing most call The Internets™, I came across “Why we moved away from “the cloud” to a “real” server” from the fellows at Boxed Ice. They have a server metrics and monitoring service named Server Density. Their … Continue reading The “Cloud” is supposed to be better than the “Real”
100,000 Joyent Accelerators
We just delivered the 100,000th Joyent Accelerator to a customer. That’s a big milestone. Congratulations to the Joyent team. And congratulations to our customers who are doing such interesting things with Joyent Accelerators, everyone from Prince (the artist known as), to all the Facebook developers, to the many enterprise shops removing the barriers of IT … Continue reading 100,000 Joyent Accelerators
Structure 09 in SF
I’m moderating the first panel of the day at Om’s Structure09 conference today. If you’re at the conference please make sure you say “Hi”.
Jason A. Hoffman 