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Joyent is [a leading] high-performance cloud infrastructure and big data analytics company, offering organizations of any size the best public and hybrid cloud infrastructure for today's demanding real-time web and mobile applications.

Joyent Inc is a software and services company based in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in application virtualization and cloud computing. Joyent was acquired by Samsung in 2016.

JoyentCloud, Joyent’s hosting unit, is designed to compete with Amazon's EC2 cloud and offers infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) for large enterprises.This hosting business is active in the segment of online social network game, where it provides services to companies such as THQ, Social Game Universe, and Traffic Marketplace. The company also hosted Twitter in its early days. Other customers include LinkedIn, Gilt Groupe, and Kabam.

Joyent uses and supports open source projects, including Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Illumos and SmartOS, which is its own distribution of Illumos, featuring its port of the KVM Hypervisor for abstracting the software from the hardware, DTrace for troubleshooting and systems monitoring, and the ZFS file system to connect servers to storage systems. The company open-sourced SmartOS in August 2011.

Joyent has taken the software stack that evolved over time in the running of their hosted business and is now licensing that software under the name Smart Data Center to large hardware companies such as Dell. —Wikipedia

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How to use Joyent Manta client.createWriteStream(path, options) correctly

I'm trying to use the Manta's Node.js SDK, from Joyent, to write a file from a readable stream. The example given on the webpage is this: var MemoryStream = require('memorystream'); var message = 'Hello World' var opts = { copies: 3, …
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Affinity between Nodejitsu and IAAS

I'm evaluating Nodejitsu for hosting Node.JS. I'm trying to understand the relationship between Nodejitsu and IAAS providers. In particular is Nodejitsu providing me the machines or can I choose that my machine will be on some specific cloud…
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Joyent SmartOS: Installing NPM Packages

So I'm trying to host a node app with Joyent smartOS. After creating my instance, I git copied my current commit and tried to run npm install. The only problem is the process will get a little of the way through then fail. Sifting through the logs,…
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Trouble running cron on Joyent

I'm trying to set up a node script to run as a cron job on Joyent. I can run arbitrary commands but node scripts to seem to execute. As an example: # cron # call a script every minute # being specific about the location of node and the script to run…
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how to download copy of cloud9 sample code in beagle bone

today is 27th Dec 2012 and I just got my Beagle Bone board from RS Components. Once I got into the device Cloud9 IDE... I chosed the blinkingleds.js sample AND clicked RUN. It does running and I tried to stop it (running process) , yet the machine…
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After website migration, index.html no longer automatically loaded

Thanks for any help you can provide! We just migrated our website to a new server. It's on a Joyent Cloud running Sun/Oracle Solaris, and it has Ruby in addition to PHP. It runs on MySQL and Apache. Before, we had things set up so that when I…
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MongoDB in the cloud hosting, benefits

Im still fighting with mongoDB and I think this war will end is not soon. My database has a size of 15.95 Gb; Objects - 9963099; Data Size - 4.65g; Storage Size - 7.21g; Extents - 269; Indexes - 19; Index Size - 1.68g; Powered by: Quad Xeon…
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