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Volume 6 ,  Issue 1  (January/February 2008) table of contents
Virtualization
DEPARTMENT: Interview table of contents
Pages 7-13  
Year of Publication: 2008
ISSN:1542-7730
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John Stanik  ACM Queue
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Jason Hoffman has a Ph.D. in molecular pathology, but to him the transition between the biological sciences and his current role as CTO of Joyent was completely natural: "Fundamentally, what I've always been is a systems scientist, meaning that whether I was studying metabolism or diseases of metabolism or cancer or computer systems or anything else, a system is a system," says Hoffman. He draws on this broad systems background in the work he does at Joyent providing scalable infrastructure for Web applications. Joyent's cloud-computing infrastructure has become the foundation for many of the increasingly popular applications developed to feed into the social-networking site Facebook.com.