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1 Billion Page Views a Month
Here’s a video detailing how LinkedIn built an application (Bumpersticker on the Facebook platform) using Rails (and C Ruby!) that serves up more than 1 billion page views a month. In my opinion, this ends the debate about whether Rails scales. Rails is a component, it is how the components are architected and delivered that…
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Amazon Web Services or Joyent Accelerators: Reprise
In the Fall of 2006, I wrote a piece On Grids, the Ambitions of Amazon and Joyent, and followed up with Why EC2 isn’t yet a platform for ‘normal’ web applications and the recognition that When you’re really pushing traffic, Amazon S3 is more expensive than a CDN. The point of these previous articles was…
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What is Cloud Computing?
We went to the Web 2.0 Expo and asked “What is Cloud Computing ?”. YouTube has a high definition version of What is Cloud Computing Check out what the following people had to say: Tim O’Reilly Dan Farber Matt Mullenweg Jay Cross Brian Solis Kevin Marks Rafe Needleman Steve Gillmor Jeremy Tanner Maggie Fox Tom…
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Rod Boothby Talks Cloud Computing at Web 2.0 Expo
Rod and I also held several interviews at the show – including Tim O’Reilly, Kevin Marks, Steve Gillmore, Dan Farber, and Rafe Needleman trying to get public opinion on ‘What is Cloud Computing’. We will be posting that video shortly as there is some good stuff in there. Disclosure: That handsome fella interviewing him happens…
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The wonders of fb:ref and iRules: Serving pages from Facebook’s cache
I wanted to introduce or remind everyone of the fb:ref markup tag and how through the use of iRules in our BIG-IPs we can offload the serving of common pages to facebook’s cache. Importantly this can happen without having to hit or rewrite your application, and is implemented in really fast, robust, edge “application switches”.…
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Jason’s interviewed in ACM Queue
I’m in the January/February 2008 edition of ACM queue. It’s a conversation between Bryan Cantrill and myself about a number of things including virtualization, Facebook applications, Ruby on Rails and what data store backends should look like by the time we hit the year 2037. The PDF of the print copy is here. Thank you…
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Fermions, Bosons and the 6 Utilities
When I used to teach university chemistry, I’d always start with the statement: The universe (at one level) is made of two things and two things only: fermions and bosons. Fermions are the things that have “stuff”: they have mass and can be charged (or not). Bosons are the things that have no “stuff”: they…
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Billions Served: Joyent Accelerators a Real Platform for Growth
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.…
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NetApp versus Sun, Sun versus NetApp, and Both versus Common Sense
As you might have heard and likely read in the back-and-forth blogging of Dave Hitz (a NetApp founder) and Jonathan Schwartz (CEO of Sun Microsystems), the two are at each other’s throats. Well not really at each other’s throats: NetApp went nuclear and Sun hit back even harder. Basically NetApp says that Sun’s ZFS steals…
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Joyent DTrace Probes for Ruby in Apple’s Leopard
We are looking forward to installing Leopard on our Macintoshes here at Joyent this weekend. We talked in the recent episode of ps pipe grep about the effort at Sun to ensure Solaris is a good operating system for laptop computers. (Cricket sounds). But seriously, now that OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is shipping (today), with…