Learn how to deploy and manage real-time applications on Cloud Foundry using common Node.js examples and Redis key-value store capabilities. Common applications being built on Node.js like social networking and chat require real-time scaling capabilities across multiple instances. Developers need to deal with sticky sessions, scale-up, scale-down, instance crash/restart, and …
There are several current trends that are forcing application architectures to evolve. Users expect a rich, interactive and dynamic user experience on a wide variety of clients including mobile devices. Applications must be highly scalable, highly available and run on cloud environments. Organizations often want to frequently roll out updates, …
While Node.js is the hot new kid on the block, evented libraries like EventMachine for Ruby and Twisted for Python have existed for a long time. When does it make sense to use one over the other? What are the advantages and disadvantages to using node over ruby?
This video briefly presents Node.js and shows a sample installation on an Ubuntu machine.
This tutorial introduces Node.js, a server side implementation of JavaScript built on top of Google’s V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js is finding a home among web developers, both for its ability to handle concurrency and because it was built with web development in mind. You’ll be amazed at how simple it …
