Building for the Internet of things (and the demise of the client-server model)
Guest Post Developers, listen up: Everything you’re doing now is about to become irrelevant. Especially when it comes to clients, servers, and end-user input.
Amazon competitor Joyent jumps for joy with new product and CEO
November 7, 2012 4:22 PM
Christina Farr
The good news keeps on coming for cloud infrastructure company Joyent -- today, its announced a new CEO, global expansion plans, and a new product.
Node.js creator Ryan Dahl steps away from Node’s day-to-day
January 30, 2012 1:03 PM
Jolie O'Dell
Ryan Dahl, the hacker who brought the world Node.js, is turning over the reins to Joyent’s Isaac Schlueter.
Dahl, who started working on the Node project in 2009, stated in a Google Groups post Monday, “After three years of working …
How a teen-founded company won the Node Jam
January 28, 2012 11:47 AM
Jolie O'Dell
Five years ago, a fifteen-year-old student built a website; this week, the same website won the Node Jam at Node Summit, the conference focusing on all things Node.js.
Quizlet is a site you might never have heard of unless you …
Joyent grabs $85M from Weather Investment II, Telefonica to take on Amazon in cloud computing
January 23, 2012 4:30 AM
Sean Ludwig
Cloud computing startup Joyent has raised a humongous $85 million round of funding, which will help the company with its plan of out-innovating Amazon in cloud computing technology.
Joyent provides infrastructure cloud computing services for customers like LinkedIn, THQ, Gilt …
Case study: How & why to build a consumer app with Node.js
Guest Post
Node.js has been getting great press for being used to build real-time web applications and fast networking tools that help big web sites run and scale.
But is Node just as good a fit for web agencies and developers that …
Joyent’s CTO defines “the cloud” (video)
January 3, 2012 6:26 AM
Jolie O'Dell
“The cloud” is a term often as nebulous as the images it evokes.
But while some companies take advantage of that vagueness and use the opportunity to cloudwash their products (to great financial effect), others attempt to bring clarity and …
Node.js core contributor explains why it’s ready for the big time (video)
December 9, 2011 1:42 PM
Jolie O'Dell
Hanging out with Paul Querna, a longtime Node.js core contributor and Rackspace’s systems architect, is more fun than a basket of kittens.
In this video interview, he and I chat about how far Node has come in a relatively short …
Watch out, Ruby on Rails: Node.js is the most popular repo on Github
November 28, 2011 10:12 AM
Jolie O'Dell
Node.js became the most popular code repository on Github over the holiday weekend.
With 11,460 watchers as of this writing, the Node repo now has more attention than Rails, which has 11,274 watchers.
For all you who’ve been trumpeting that …
Node nerds unite at the first-ever Node Summit
August 25, 2011 3:48 PM
Jolie O'Dell
“I don’t cargo cult often, but when I do, I do it with Node.js.”
So runs a wry joke we recently read about Node.js, the somewhat suddenly popular server-side programming technology that’s been all the rage among developers in our …
Joyent Node.js expert talks about Node in the enterprise and more
August 19, 2011 5:16 PM
Jolie O'Dell
Developers these days are fascinated by Node, as we recently reaffirmed with a blockbuster post on how LinkedIn used Node to make its new mobile apps.
Our written interview with LinkedIn’s mobile development chief did so well that we thought …
