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Something seems to be happening at Joyent a lot of good people have left recently; Brendan Gregg, Deirdré Straughan, Ben Rockwood, Mark Cavage and so on. I love
by georgeb_ 12y ago
Something seems to be happening at Joyent a lot of good people have left recently; Brendan Gregg, Deirdré Straughan, Ben Rockwood, Mark Cavage and so on. I love the work Joyent put out and have great admiration for them but something is off.
- hacknat 12y agoMark left? How did you find that out? This must have been super recent.
- x0x0 12y agohe's building some sort of amazon cloud competitor at oracle [1]. Kind of inevitable, really, now that amazon is building Aurora and going after Oracle's core business. https://gigaom.com/2014/11/25/oracle-bulks-up-its-public-cloud-with-ex-joyent-engineer/ https://gigaom.com/2014/11/25/oracle-bulks-up-its-public-clo...
- x0x0 12y agoNetflix is happy to pay people like Brendan Gregg a fucking ton of money, so it doesn't necessarily speak to anything at Joyent. Joyent has been going for 8 years and just raised another round; that's a long time.