As you know, SmartOS is an open source project – and we’ve been delighted with the way the community is running with it. Now we’re giving you an opportunity to see what we at Joyent do with SmartOS: you can try out our SmartDataCenter cloud management software for free.
Demo/Walkthrough of SmartDataCenter
Install SmartDataCenter in < 1 Hour
Complete playlist (25 mins) of Bryan Cantrill speaking about illumos at the SVLUG Comparative Operating Systems Discussion panel.
Jonathan Perkin joins Joyent, “focusing on making pkgsrc work even better on SmartOS.”
Debugging node.js memory leaks – blog post by Bryan Cantrill
New video: Why You Need ZFS – Bryan Cantrill at the recent SVLUG Comparative Operating Systems Discussion panel, moderated by Rick Moen.
This is just a snippet from SVLUG‘s Comparative Operating Systems Discussion panel on current open source Unix systems, in which Bryan Cantrill was a speaker, along with Kevin Dankwardt of K Computing representing Linux, Josh Paetzel, Director of IT at IxSystems, Inc. for FreeBSD, and Charles Forsyth, Technical Director and Co-Founder at Vita Nuova for Plan 9.
I do plan to upload the entire two hours, just need to find a window of time in which the upload can be completed!
Free to redistribute under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
Bryan Cantrill, VP of Engineering at Joyent, describe his team’s experiences developing DTrace-based system visualization of Node.js in an early production environment: the 2010 Node Knockout programmingcontest. He describes the challenges of instrumenting a distributed, dynamic, highly virtualized system — and what their experiences taught them about the problem, the technologies used to tackle it, and promising approaches. Slides here.
from the Velocity Conference 2011