Nodejitsu
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| Company type | Corporation[1] |
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| Founded | April 2010[2][3] |
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| Services | Platform as a service (PaaS) |
| Website | Nodejitsu |
Nodejitsu Inc is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS). Nodejitsu is based on Node.js and serves Node.js applications on their platform. Nodejitsu's headquarters are based in New York City, New York, with datacenters in the United States and Europe.[4]
History
Nodejitsu was founded in April 2010[2][3] by Charlie Robbins, Marak Squires, and Paolo Fragomeni. Coined "the original Node.js platform as a service",[5] Nodejitsu partnered with Joyent on April 2, 2012 to "deliver best-of-breed infrastructure and platform services and software to the growing ranks of enterprise and public cloud users developing and deploying applications for Node.js."[3][6] Joyent took a shot at a Node.js platform as a service previously, named No.de. As of November 7, 2012, Joyent no longer offers the No.de platform as a service, and instead recommends Nodejitsu.[7]
IrisCouch has been the official host of the public npm registry since they were part of CouchOne (now Couchbase). They have provided top-notch service to the Node.js and npm community since day one, even going so far as to make modifications to Apache CouchDB itself for our security needs. I cannot recommend them highly enough.
On May 22, 2013, Nodejitsu acquired IrisCouch.[8] The IrisCouch team has merged with the Nodejitsu team during this acquisition, introducing Jeff Jackson as the new chief operations officer and Jason Smith as the new chief technical officer. IrisCouch will also be blended into Nodejitsu's current platform to provide an all-in-one platform for deploying Node.js applications, as well as provisioning CouchDB and Redis databases. This also means that IrisNPM will be shut down and merged into Nodejitsu's platform. Nodejitsu will still be allowing private NPM repositories, but there is not a pricing model for these databases or NPM repositories yet.
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On June 4 and 5, 2013, Nodejitsu was featured in The New York Times and TechCrunch for being one of the first companies that has been invested in by Bloomberg Beta, a new $75 million start-up investment fund headed by former IGN executive Roy Bahat.[9][10] With Bloomberg Beta's current list of investments, Nodejitsu joins the likes of companies such as Codecademy, Newsle, Errplane, ProsperWorks, and MkII Ventures.
Open Source
Continuing with the Nodejitsu tradition of open source evangelism, Nodejitsu maintains numerous open source projects in their Github repositories. On top of their open source contributions, they also offer one free drone (server) to open source applications as of January 31, 2013.[11] Open source applications must be able to provide a repository with the user's source code.[12]
Node.js Knockout 2012
Node.js Knockout holds a hackathon each year, where Node.js programmers join together in teams to complete a Node.js application within 48 hours. The Node.js application is then judged, and the victors are awarded their prizes for that year. The 2012 Node Knockout was sponsored by Joyent and hosted by Nodejitsu.[13]
Controversy
Sometime around December 2010, Nodejitsu was banned on the Hacker News network[14] due to controversy following the actions of Marak Squires' alleged spamming of the Hacker News network[15] and claims of Nodejitsu rallying users to increase votes on their posts.[16] Charlie Robbins combatted the ban, pointing out that users of Nodejitsu are given Nodejitsu subdomains for their applications. It is still a common occurrence, as with many other programming languages, that Nodejitsu users post their applications to Hacker News for public feedback. The ban on the Nodejitsu domain caused all users' posts containing a Nodejitsu domain to be removed.[17] Nodejitsu's ban on Hacker News has been lifted since October 24, 2011, and was publicly announced on the Hacker News network by Paul Graham.[14]
Competitors
See also
References
- ^ "Delaware Department of State". Retrieved 17 April 2013.
- ^ a b Crunchbase. "Nodejitsu company profile". Retrieved 16 April 2013.
- ^ a b c Bloomberg Businessweek. "Nodejitsu, Inc". Retrieved 16 April 2013.
{{cite web}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^ Nodejitsu. "Nodejitsu Datacenters". Retrieved 16 April 2013.
{{cite web}}: External link in|author= - ^ ReadWrite. "Node.js PaaS Nodejitsu Open-Sources Several Tools". Retrieved 17 April 2013.
- ^ Joyent. "Nodejitsu and Joyent Cloud Join Forces to Deliver Node.js Infrastructure and Orchestration Tools to Fast Growing Developer Base". Retrieved 16 April 2013.
- ^ Joyent. "No.de". Retrieved 17 April 2013.
- ^ a b Nodejitsu. "IrisCouch has joined the Nodejitsu team". Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ a b TechCrunch. "Bloomberg Launches Bloomberg Beta, A $75 Million Early-Stage Investment Fund Led By Former IGN Exec Roy Bahat". Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ The New York Times. "Bloomberg Begins Fund to Invest in Start-Ups". Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ Nodejitsu. "Free open source hosting on Nodejitsu". Retrieved 17 April 2013.
{{cite web}}: External link in|author= - ^ Nodejitsu. "Nodejitsu open source hosting". Retrieved 17 April 2013.
{{cite web}}: External link in|author= - ^ "Node.js Knockout Official Page". Retrieved 17 April 2013.
- ^ a b Betabeat. "Paul Graham publicly releases Nodejitsu from Hacker News jail". Retrieved 17 April 2013.
- ^ "Strange popup". Retrieved 17 April 2013.
- ^ "Nodejitsu created an army of sockpuppets to vote up their posts". Retrieved 17 April 2013.
- ^ Denbow, Frank. "The problem with that..." Retrieved 17 April 2013.