The fine guys at Joyent has come out with a podcast of their own — ps pipe grep, with a tag line surveying all the processes.
160kbps MP3 for a podcast is a bit unnecessary, and I don’t really like their choice of music. However they scores in the category of geekiness. Stuff talked about in the first episode — virtualization, Oracle vs. Red Hat, Sun’s Blackbox, Ruby on Rails and Java — reflecting the expertise in Joyent as both a software developer and hosting company.
Some reflections:
- How much did Jonathan Schwartz pay these fanboys? :)
- Separation of application layers is not the reason why many people are getting VPS now. It’s not for scaling up, but for scaling down. If I need root access, but don’t need the power, where can I get a dedicated server with 256Mb RAM and 500Mhz Pentium 3? It’s more economical for hosts to provide that to developers in the form of VPS or containers.
- Jython lost momentum because GvR the Benevolent Dictator is behind the CPython. However the future might be on PyPy. Maybe JVM powered Python can be resurrected as a form of PyPy?
- I’ve never been troubled by space and indentation, being a Python developer for almost 6 years. Maybe I am just a neat person :)
Feed subscribed. Looking forward to the next episode.