Modern Infrastructure: The Convergence of Network, Compute, and Data
summary
Claims that network, compute and data are converging and shows a working stack: Joyent rethinks a datacenter as a single appliance, storage‑centric and “software defined” with hardware offload. Key components are SmartOS (PXE boot, immutable images), ZFS (unified object+file store, snapshots, ARC cache), KVM-in-containers for VMs, Node.js for system services, and DTrace for production observability. Demonstrated outcomes: strong‑write multi‑datacenter object store, compute‑on‑storage workflows, and real deploy scale (examples: 2–4 TB raw per genome, 16 EB shipped storage in 2012).
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Start
- 8:21Today's datacenter
- 9:29Networking.
- 15:55What we've been doing
- 33:17Segmentation by Purpose.
- 34:55Modern Challenges
- 40:59Data and Compute
- 44:14Unified Compute & Storage
- 45:15Operating System
- 46:30Everything is a Process
- 48:12Security
- 48:59Double-hulled virtualization
- 49:55Performance
- 50:52Scalability
- 51:05Observability
- 52:58The role of node.js at Joyent
- 55:42node.js design points
- 56:33The node in node.js
- 58:19Questions
- 58:53DTrace
- 59:28Where is time spent?
- 59:46Node.js on Smartos
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