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From the CTO's blog post, it seems to me that Samsung became interested in Joyent not for its most famous product, Node.js, but for its new product, Manta, whic

From the CTO's blog post, it seems to me that Samsung became interested in Joyent not for its most famous product, Node.js, but for its new product, Manta, which is some sort of serverless, distributed, data-storage and processing service (https://www.joyent.com/manta https://www.joyent.com/manta). Manta might be well-suited for the new hotness, the Internet of Things. So that's how I saw it progressing. Samsung was looking into how to get in on the Internet of Things, stumbled across Manta, and it went from there.

ilaksh 10y ago
Manta seems like they are throwing the kitchen sink at those problems, tons of containers, proprietary OS, proxies, etc. If you want to store objects in a distributed way, why not just use something like RethinkDB, which has proxying/sharding etc. built in? RethinkDB even has a way to execute code with 'js'. Or for serverless processing, why not AWS lambda or the crop of clones?
- melloc 10y ago
  Manta doesn't run on a proprietary OS, but runs on SmartOS, a distribution of illumos [1][2]. In fact, almost everything at Joyent is open source, including all of Manta [3]. As for why not anything else, Manta has been around since 2013 [4], before other similar solutions, and allows you to run arbitrary programs on your data. As an example, some of our customers run ffmpeg on videos that they upload, to produce different variants to then store in Manta. [1] https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live [2] https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent [3] https://github.com/joyent/manta https://github.com/joyent/manta [4] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/25/joyent_object_store/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/25/joyent_object_store/
- jclulow 10y ago
  For the record, there is no "proprietary [operating system]" involved here. The Triton stack (upon which Manta is based) runs on top of SmartOS[1], a wholly open source operating system built around an illumos[2] core. [1] https://www.joyent.com/smartos https://www.joyent.com/smartos [2] https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate
- Annatar 10y ago
  > proprietary OS Say what? SmartOS is based on illumos, the only free, open source SVR4 UNIX out there. Get the code: https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent Build it! https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Building+SmartOS+on+SmartOS https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Building+SmartOS+on+Sma... Modify it: https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/SmartOS+Developers+Guide https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/SmartOS+Developers+Guid...
- jen20 10y ago
  > Or for serverless processing, why not AWS lambda or the crop of clones? Data locality.

ilaksh 10y ago

Manta seems like they are throwing the kitchen sink at those problems, tons of containers, proprietary OS, proxies, etc. If you want to store objects in a distributed way, why not just use something like RethinkDB, which has proxying/sharding etc. built in? RethinkDB even has a way to execute code with 'js'. Or for serverless processing, why not AWS lambda or the crop of clones?

melloc 10y ago
Manta doesn't run on a proprietary OS, but runs on SmartOS, a distribution of illumos [1][2]. In fact, almost everything at Joyent is open source, including all of Manta [3]. As for why not anything else, Manta has been around since 2013 [4], before other similar solutions, and allows you to run arbitrary programs on your data. As an example, some of our customers run ffmpeg on videos that they upload, to produce different variants to then store in Manta. [1] https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live [2] https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent [3] https://github.com/joyent/manta https://github.com/joyent/manta [4] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/25/joyent_object_store/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/25/joyent_object_store/
jclulow 10y ago
For the record, there is no "proprietary [operating system]" involved here. The Triton stack (upon which Manta is based) runs on top of SmartOS[1], a wholly open source operating system built around an illumos[2] core. [1] https://www.joyent.com/smartos https://www.joyent.com/smartos [2] https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate
Annatar 10y ago
> proprietary OS Say what? SmartOS is based on illumos, the only free, open source SVR4 UNIX out there. Get the code: https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent Build it! https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Building+SmartOS+on+SmartOS https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Building+SmartOS+on+Sma... Modify it: https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/SmartOS+Developers+Guide https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/SmartOS+Developers+Guid...
jen20 10y ago
> Or for serverless processing, why not AWS lambda or the crop of clones? Data locality.