On: Joyent Public Cloud EOL

[berns]

> For our existing public cloud and private data center customers, adding scale, financial muscle, and Samsung as both a partner for innovation and as a large anchor tenant customer for Triton and Manta, will pay big dividends.

The tenant is now too large, please move out.

[velcrovan → berns]

Fun fact, in 2008 Joyent was Twitter’s host and asked them to leave.

[TimTheTinker → velcrovan]

Interesting. TextDrive (which turned into Joyent) was one of the first Ruby on Rails hosting options, and Twitter was first built as a RoR app.

[davidpaulyoung → TimTheTinker]

The truth is that Joyent bought TextDrive. At Joyent we were developing a big RoR app. TextDrive did great hosting. Jason and I decided to merge.

[unexpected → TimTheTinker]

another fun fact: a lot of the early HackerNews posts were the daily drama of Twitter's RoR struggles.

[abrowne → unexpected]

I kind of miss seeing the Fail Whale.

[fernandotakai → abrowne]

same!

i also miss their xmpp bot for some weird reason.

[g0xA52A2A → velcrovan]

Source? I've not heard that take and would be curious to read more about it.

[randylahey → g0xA52A2A]

https://techcrunch.com/2008/01/31/twitter-and-joyent-split-a...

[saurik → randylahey]

This article makes it sound more like Twitter left the relationship because Joyent wasn't delivering on performance and stability.

[davidpaulyoung → g0xA52A2A]

It's true.

[velcrovan → davidpaulyoung]

I even wrote a little poem about it at the time: https://thelocalyarn.com/article/birds

[davidpaulyoung → velcrovan]

That's correct. :)