Topics


Blogs


Forums


Samples


Media


Labs


Resources

 




DevCentral > Weblogs > DevCentral Interviews | Audio - Audio to brighten your day.
 Scaling in the Cloud with Joyent's Jason Hoffman
posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:52 PM

  

Joe and Colin talk to Jason Hoffman, CTO of Joyent.  In the call, they talk about

  • General overview of Joyent and how they provide a high-end on-demand infrastructure to their clients.
  • How Joyent achieves on-demand scaling and how they compare to Amazon and Google's cloud offerings.
  • How they have reached out to developers to make developing with their services free and easy.
  • His history with Ruby and how to build an application to scale - most failures occur at administrative scale - not tiered or siloed correctly.  He compares Java, Ruby, and Erlang and talks about their DTrace probe offerings.
  • Colin gave Jason Goose Bumps.
  • LinkedIn's BumperSticker app is then discussed and how iRules helped with Facebook application caching causing 80% reduction in server processing.
  • How the app stack should be cache - app switch - cache - app - cache - data stores.
  • Jason proposed setting up a collection of iRules that every cloud provider should be using.
  • He talks about Joyent's iControl Ruby library with an agreement to open source it - woo hoo!  He tops that off with a Ruby route to iRule translator.
  • The call finishes off with recipes and an invitation to Taco Tuesdays at Nick's Crispy Taco in San Francisco.
Get the Flash Player to see this player.


Email This
  del.icio.us
      

Feedback


7/28/2008 11:08 AM
Gravatar I love the stories about Facebook applications that go from a small application to passing more traffic than twitter does in under a month. Its amazing that this happens and its amazing that there's an computing cloud that allows this to scale.
James

7/28/2008 1:05 PM
Gravatar James, glad you enjoyed the podcast, we did too! And special thanks to Jason for taking the time to talk with us. Joyent has a great product set and I'd encourage anyone out there looking for hosting give them a look.

-Joe
Joe Pruitt

12/1/2008 11:53 PM
Gravatar Such a helpful resource! Thanks!
Yujin Jung

1/2/2009 6:04 AM
Gravatar Could someone elaborate on what is Jason saying at 53:00? I'm not sure if I heard the words in brackets correctly:

"Even something like a Netscaler, for example, doesn't separate the concept of a [bip] from a pool... you know, it's like, what? What can we do with that? Ok, so let's, I guess, load balance our [chain] server."

Is he saying that you can't distinguish the IP of the load balancer from the pool? What is a chain server?

Thanks.
Anonymous
 Leave Feedback
Title  
Name  
Email
Url
Comments   
Please add 6 and 4 and type the answer here: