7/16/2008 Wed 7-9pm
Unofficial Ruby Gathering
Night-time Story: Learning From Early Success of One Thousand and One Rails Applications
Speaker: Jason Hoffman, CTO at Joyent
Location: Google Campus
Address: Paramaribo Tech Talk Room Building 42, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043
Jason A. Hoffman, PhD
Chief Technology Officer
Jason A. Hoffman is a founder and the CTO of Joyent, an on-demand infrastructure and cloud computing company that serves billions of page views and traffics hundreds of millions of emails per month.
Joyent is dedicated to the singular mission that developers should be able to start at a small scale and flex to a global scale with minimal friction. Joyent is among the world’s largest OpenSolaris installations and while supporting all unix-based languages and data stores, Joyent’s products have included the first production support of Ruby on Rails, inclusion of the ZFS file system, and Joyent’s DTrace-enabled Ruby ships on MacOS X Leopard and soon on OpenSolaris.
Jason is a systems scientist with BS and MS degrees from UCLA, and a PhD from UCSD, and is an expert in scalable architectures. He has applied his knowledge and experience from the Web to Games to Computational Chemistry, Proteomics and Cancer biology.
As a senior business executive at Joyent that focuses on technology, Jason’s efforts include
- Managing and leading the Operations and Systems staff
- Monitoring new technologies and assess their potential to become new products or services,
- Focusing on technologies that are most likely to generate the highest rate of return,
- Developing and maintaining relationships with key vendors,
- Overseeing and advising on our internal hardware and software needs,
- Overseeing and advising the selection and involvement in open source projects, research efforts and internal projects to insure that they have the potential to add value to the company,
- Providing reliable technical assessments of potential partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions.
- Explaining company products and future plans to the trade media, press and bloggers,
- Participating in groups (industry, local users groups, academic, and government) where there are opportunities to promote the company’s reputation and to capture valuable data,
- Establishing a strong network of business partners, academics, technology thought leaders and the media (this includes “bloggers”),
- Leading in the implementation of distributed systems,
- Developing an internal culture that is logical, experimental and agile.
- Joyent is fortunate enough to have a “Chief Architect” that Jason works closely with
Jason’s past and future talks:
- “Scale with Rails: Real-life capacity and deployment planning”, Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, April 2006 (invited)
- “Scale with Rails”, Scale with Rails New York Workshop, July 2006 (invited)
- “Scale with Rails”, Scale with Rails Laguna Beach Workshop, August 2006 (invited)
- “Rails: A System View”, RailsConf Europe, September 2006 (submission)
- “Scale with Rails”, Scale with Rails Frankfurt Workshop, October 2006 (submission)
- “ZFS, Containers and More”, Sun Solaris Kernel Technical Discussion, October 2006 (invited)
- “Collaboration in Small Teams with the Joyent Connector”, Under the Radar: Why Office 2.0 Matters, March 2007 (invited)
- “Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom-Up”, RailsConf US, May 2007 (submission)
- “Ruby on Rails: To Scale or Not to Scale”, Geeksessions, May 2007 (invited)
- “Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom-Up”, RailsConf Europe, September 2007 (submission)
- “Scaling Facebook Applications”, Facebook Developer Garage Dallas, November 2007 (invited)
- “Scaling Facebook Applications”, Facebook App Garage, Johannesburg, South Africa, January 2008 (invited)
- “Scaling Facebook Applications”, Facebook App Garage, Cape Town, South Africa, January 2008 (invited)
- “Building Applications to Scale”, Opensocial Hackathon II, San Jose, CA, February 2008 (invited)
- “Scaling Facebook Applications”, Facebook Developer Garage Austin, Austin, TX, March 2008 (invited)
- “Scaling with DTrace”, dtrace.conf, March 2008
- “DTrace and MySQL”, MySQL Conference & Expo, April 2008 (submission with Ben Rockwood)
- “Cloud computing”, Structure 08 Conference, San Francisco, CA, June 2008 (invited)
Jason A. Hoffman is a founder and the CTO of Joyent, an on-demand infrastructure and cloud computing company that serves billions of page views and traffics hundreds of millions of emails per month. 
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