Hey there. So we have some great meetups coming up at Joyent HQ. They're a good opportunity to learn, compare notes and ask questions from the pros:

MONGODB + JOYENT CLOUD: THE MONGO/NODE.JS STACK WITH 10GEN AND MONGOLAB ON FEBRUARY 29 AT 6:00 PM

Join this Joyent Cloud User Group (JCUG) Meetup focused on Node.js and MongoDB. 10gen Director of Product Marketing Jared Rosoff and MongoLab CTO Todd Dampier will give presentations on building / scaling MongoDB + Node.js apps in Joyent Cloud and running a MongoDB-as-a-Service product on Joyent SmartOS and Joyent Cloud. Sign up here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2971069549

MONITORING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURES ON SMARTOS: GOING NATIVE WITH CIRCONUS ON MARCH 7 AT 6:15 PM

Join us for a presentation from Brian Clapper, CTO of Circonus. Brian will discuss what types of unique SmartOS telemetry are supported in Circonus and how to approach instrumenting SmartOS. He will also provide a DevOps perspective on monitoring SmartOS-based experiences gleaned from work in performance optimization and high-scalability application development and monitoring at Circonus. Sign up here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2972680367

MAKING QUIZLET RUN REALLY FAST: RAPID ROOT-CAUSE ANALYSIS WITH MONITORING AND ANALYTICS TOOLS ON MARCH 14 AT 6:30 PM

Join us for a presentation from Andrew Sutherland, the Founder and CTO of Quizlet. Andrew will discuss how Quizlet uses New Relic, Joyent Cloud Analytics and DTrace in combination to monitor web applications and then quickly identify the source performance issues that arise, ranging from lower-level process problems to specific bugs in higher-level dynamic code environments. Sign up here:http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3028025907

You can also join our Joyent Cloud User Group, a freshly minted Meetup group where we'll be moving all community activities going forward.