Scaling in the Cloud with Joyent's Jason Hoffman

DevCentral Interview — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:52:37 GMT

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.

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