similar to: RoR: To Scale or Not to Scale

<a href="http://www.joyent.com">Joyent</a> and <a href="http:// www.sun.com">Sun</a> are proud to present the first in a series of Hack Days, where you will get a chance to hear about the latest technologies and learn how to use them in an interactive unconference styled event. The first Hack Day launches on August 8th at the Axis Cafe in San

(Apologies to anyone who follows me on Twitter and therefore will have seen this multiple times already.) Joyent will be offering training in DTrace: Core Features and Performance Analysis trainer: Brendan Gregg <http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/> (San Francisco, Sept 6-7), Max Bruning <http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Max+Bruning> (Geneva, Sept 13-14) This course introduces

Hi users of EL6 based distributions, I'm pleased to announce a new alternative binary package repository for EL6 x86_64. The aim is to provide a supplemental set of packages which may contain software not included in your base system. These packages are based on pkgsrc, a cross-platform package manager. In this initial release there are 13,152 packages available. For now I am specifically

Hello I''m wondering if anyone has looked into adding pkgsrc package management as a provider for Package? We use Joyent accelerators (zones on OpenSolaris) for our many of our production services and about a year ago Joyent switched from Blastwave to pkgsrc for userland packages. pkgsrc catalog - http://pkgsrc.se/ pkgsrc guide - http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/ joyent pkgsrc

Title: Sr. Web Application Developer - San Francisco QUALIFICATIONS Candidates MUST have a background in Ruby-on-Rails (RoR); MUST use it for web application development not just creating web pages; NO interest in Web Designers. Candidates must have strong knowledge of the Ruby language, design principles and patterns. Solid knowledge of relational databases (Postgresql) and/or "NoSQL"

Hello, Thought I''d pass this along to any job seekers out there. My understanding is that this is a relatively junior to mid-level position. ============================================================== Web Application Developer -- Ruby on Rails Blurb, Inc, San Francisco (Full Time) Are you a person who is excited to explore new technologies and build cutting edge applications

Hi all, a very cool info for all french readers of this list. RailsFrance (http://www.railsfrance.org) is organizing a Ruby On Rails meeting in France (Paris). It''s gonna take place during 2006 autumn. You should take a look at http://paris.onrails.info/ Bye. -- Nicolas Cavigneaux http://www.bounga.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed...

RoR Power (http://www.rorpower.com) is a boutique recruiting firm specializing in Ruby on Rails opportunities. We have been retained by a well-funded startup in San Francisco to find a top-notch RoR superstar. The company is looking to bring web 2.0 usability and agility into the enterprise domain. It believes that software for the enterprise shouldn''t be boring. It should be elegant and

RoR Power (http://www.rorpower.com) is a boutique recruiting firm specializing in Ruby on Rails opportunities. We have been retained by a well-funded startup in San Francisco to find a top-notch RoR superstar. The company is looking to bring web 2.0 usability and agility into the enterprise domain. It believes that software for the enterprise shouldn''t be boring. It should be elegant and

All Bay Area useR's, Quick reminder that our use R! Group 2009 kick off meeting is next Wednesday evening: http://www.meetup.com/R-Users/calendar/9573566/ at Predictive Analytics World. Panel Discussion - The R and Science of Predictive Analytics: Four Case Studies in R * Bo Cowgill, Google * Itamar Rosenn, Facebook * David Smith, Revolution Computing * Jim Porzak, The

To belatedly second Juergen, yes I think the concept of TBD files is great, and not just useful to the specific XCode situation of proprietary libraries. For example the mapfiles[1] of Illumos are exactly analogous and used not because the libc of Illumos is closed source (it isn't) but rather to ensure comparability across Illumos versions. The libc (shared library) ABI of Illumos is the

For those who may have missed the news, the DTrace movers and shakers have moved over to a new mailing list; you can sign up at http://dtrace.org/blogs/mailing-list/ And there will be a conference dedicated to DTrace on April 3rd in San Francisco, more information here: http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/dtrace.conf -- best regards, Deirdr? Straughan SmartOS Community Manager Joyent cell

Hi, I''m with Next Internet LLC (nextinternet.com) and we are looking for Ruby on Rails Developers for our companies in San Fransisco, CA. The job description is below and attached: Ruby On Rails Developer Next Internet creates, builds and operates Internet businesses. We are well-funded and have an experienced management team that has built several highly

I''ve seen discussion on this topic in the past, and was wondering what people''s feelings were in regards to the more recent releases? Mainly, could it be possible to build a web application on the scale of, say, Amazon, or deal with similar bandwidth and load requirements as an iTunes would? It may be unfair to expect that much, seeing as these are some of the largest around,

DATA MINING 2006 CONFERENCE sponsored by Salford Systems San Diego, California: March 30 - March 31, 2006 (with a Welcome Reception on March 29th at 6PM) Two Full Days of Real-World Case Study Presentations Schedule: www.salforddatamining.com/docs/schedule06.pdf <http://www.salforddatamining.com/docs/schedule06.pdf> *Conference Highlights:* * State-of-the-Art Research from Leading

Registration is now open for the 2018 European LLVM Developers’ Meeting <http://llvm.org/devmtg/2018-04/> in Bristol, UK. You may register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2018-european-llvm-developers-meeting-bristol-tickets-42283244322 <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2018-european-llvm-developers-meeting-bristol-tickets-42283244322> Registration fees are $300 for the 2-day event

We still have some tickets available for the Women in Compilers and Tools reception that is held the night before the 2018 Euro LLVM Developers’ Meeting in Bristol, UK. Tickets are available here. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2018-european-llvm-developers-meeting-women-in-compilers-and-tools-reception-tickets-42287427835 This is an evening reception on April 15th that includes dinner, drinks,

I''m thinking about going with an accelerator account through Joyent and have tried 3 times now to get a response to one simple question: Does the setup costs include configuration of a standard rails app & cron entry to start the app @ reboot? And if not, do they offer (for a charge), services to configure this? What worries me, Is I can''t keep any sort of consistent

Ping Identity Corporation, a mid-sized identity solutions company, is currently looking for 2 contractors (3+ months w/option to hire at contract end) to assist in developing and extending our internal corporate application platform. This internally-developed platform drives most aspects of our company, from sales leads to support to applications that assist in day-to-day operations. We are

I followed this tutorial: http://www.neo.com/2013/10/09/unicorn-on-joyent-smartos and the RailsCast about configuring Nginx and Unicorn, and successfully set up my first non-Passenger/Apache Rails app last weekend. Buoyed by this success, I next set about trying to get ThinkingSphinx to restart when the server starts, and managed to get my server to run away with 115% server usage. (Oddly, while