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Improve Your Node.js App Throughput One Micro-optimization at a Time

To improve the performance of a Node.js application that involves IO, you need to understand how your CPU cycles are spent and what is preventing higher degrees of parallelism in your application. In this article, Jorge Bay shares his insights on areas that cause throughput degradation and tips on how to boost performance.

Jorge Bay
on Jan 16, 2017
Web Development

Polymorphism of MVC-esque Web Architecture: Real Time Reactive Fulfillment

The reactive ideal of the MVC architectural approach was diminished in web applications during the first two decades of the web age. Recent advancements have revitalized the reactive idea of the MVC architecture. In this article, Brent Chen and Victor Chen show how developers can leverage the dWMVC and pWMVC architectural paradigms to create real time reactive application behaviors.

Victor Chen Brent Chen
on Dec 17, 2016
Architecture & Design

Q&A with Intuit's Alex Balazs

In this Q&A, Alex Balazs, VP Fellow Architect of Turbo Tax at Intuit tells us how they used Node.js to start to break apart the monolithic architecture of their legacy platform. Balazs talks about getting the people involved, the challenges they faced, and discusses how other large enterprises can benefit from their experience.

David Iffland
on Jun 29, 2016
Web Development

Q&A on Express.js with Evan Hahn

When people talk about Node.js powering the back-end web, they're often actually talking about Express. Just as jQuery and other frameworks smooth over the XmlHttpRequest work in the browser, Express.js works to make the experience on the server just as easy. In this Q&A, author Evan Hahn provides more context on Express and where it's going.

David Iffland
on May 05, 2016
A Rails Enthusiast’s take on MEAN.js

John looks at AngularJS and the MEAN stack as an alternative to Ruby on Rails as a productive stack for building typical web applications.

John Troxel
on Oct 03, 2014
Run .NET and Node.js code in-process with Edge.js

Tomasz Janczuk has created Edge.js, which allows users to combine the power of .NET with Node.js. Curious about how to add non-blocking communication to your .NET project? Looking for a way to move computationally intensive code out of your Node thread? Janczuk's article provides a great starting point on how Edge works and the benefits it can bring to your next application.

Tomasz Janczuk
on May 29, 2013
Developing Motoric Games with HTML5 - The Making of VeloMaze

In this article Raimo explains the challenges and the solutions he had to come up with, while building a motoric HTML5 game for the NodeKO contest. The technologies used in the game were: Node.js, express (serving static content), Socket.io (letting the client and server communicate, Sylvester.js (a vector library for the physics engine) and jQuery.

Raimo Tuisku
on Dec 19, 2012
Node.js in Action: Interview and Book Excerpt

Node.js in Action by Mike Cantelon and TJ Holowaychuk, is a book that tries to introduce the platform to web developers coming to Node from established technologies such as Ruby on Rails and PHP. Node.js is an elegant, server-side, JavaScript development environment suitable for scalable, high-performance web applications. Node supports a minimalist server-side JavaScript interface.

Dio Synodinos
on Oct 11, 2011
Multi-Process Node.js: Motivations, Challenges and Solutions

Although Node.js doesn’t expose traditional threads or bother directly with issues like multiple-processor concurrency, these issue do arise in production environments. InfoQ has conducted a virtual panel with the creators of Node.js projects that deal with these concerns.

Dio Synodinos
on Sep 21, 2011
Web Development

Virtual Panel: The Node.js Ecosystem - Frameworks, Libraries and Best Practices

Node.js is a server side framework based on top of Google’s V8 JavaScript Engine, that aims to assist developers in building highly scalable network programs, by using evented, non-blocking I/O. InfoQ had a virtual panel with the creators of some of the most popular 3rd party libraries and frameworks that utilize Node.js.

Dio Synodinos
on Jul 26, 2010