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TimTheTinker
on June 6, 2019
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Joyent Public Cloud EOL
Interesting. TextDrive (which turned into Joyent) was one of the first Ruby on Rails hosting options, and Twitter was first built as a RoR app.
davidpaulyoung
on June 6, 2019
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The truth is that Joyent bought TextDrive. At Joyent we were developing a big RoR app. TextDrive did great hosting. Jason and I decided to merge.
unexpected
on June 6, 2019
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another fun fact: a lot of the early HackerNews posts were the daily drama of Twitter's RoR struggles.
abrowne
on June 6, 2019
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I kind of miss seeing the Fail Whale.
fernandotakai
on June 6, 2019
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same!
i also miss their xmpp bot for some weird reason.
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