19 May 2013

The Ruby Reflector

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Node.js

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By Hongli Lai of Phusion Corporate Blog 13 days ago.
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Python WSGI, multithreading, evented core similar to Nginx and Node.js, real-time response buffering, improved zero-copy architecture, better error diagnostics.

JRuby and Rubinius support.

Out-of-Band Work.

Support for the Rack socket hijacking API.

Improved stability and test suite .

The beta period took a while because we wanted to ensure that the first stable release is indeed rock solid. People tend to say that one should skip …

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By Assaf of Labnotes 14 days ago.
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§ Tools for debugging and profiling Node.js apps .

§ How to foster creativity by suggesting the worst possible idea: McDonald's Theory :

I use a trick with co-workers when we're trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald's.

An interesting thing happens. Everyone unanimously agrees that we can't possibly go to McDonald's, and better lunch suggestions emerge. Magic!

§ How to stop lying with charts .

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By Belinda Runkle of New Relic 24 days ago.
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…hosting, you should give it a spin. It's especially good as a high performance hosting solution for Node.js, another project that Joyent is well know for open sourcing. For more information, see Max Bruning's article on how to get a SmartOS VM setup with LAMP stack .

More Info

For more information about New Relic's Server Monitoring features, check out our documentation site .

Happy Server Monitoring!

The post New Relic Server Monitoring…

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By Lee of Lee Munroe 27 days ago.
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I've been slowly learning Node.js for a couple of months and this was a very simple "Hello World" style app to develop as there isn't much needed server-side.

Node.js is very light weight and fast. If you're interested in learning it (and Express, a framework for Node ) take a look at these tutorials and examples:

Install Node.js

Express examples you can run in your browser

A simple todo app with Node.js and Express

Deploying …

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By Mike Gunderloy of A Fresh Cup 1 month ago.
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NodeJ - Node.js compatible framework running atop the JVM so it has access to pure Java as well.

MRI's Method Caches - James Golick explains why you should care and what he's trying to do to improve things.

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By Hongli Lai of Phusion Corporate Blog 1 month ago.
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Python WSGI, multithreading, evented core similar to Nginx and Node.js, real-time response buffering, improved zero-copy architecture, better error diagnostics.

JRuby and Rubinius support.

Out-of-Band Work.

Support for the Rack socket hijacking API

Improved stability and test suite .

Release Candidate 5 was a private interim release for Phusion Passenger Enterprise customers only.

Changes in 4.0 RC 5 and RC 6

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By John Resig of John Resig 1 month ago.
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A port of SQLite to JavaScript capable of running in Node.js.

NaCL: A Networking and Cryptography Library

Asm.js Support

As mentioned before the nightly version of Firefox is currently the only browser that supports optimizing Asm.js code.

However it's important to emphasize that Asm.js-formatted JavaScript code is still just JavaScript code, albeit with an important set of restrictions. For this reason Asm.js-compiled code can still run …

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On Coding Horror 1 month ago.
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…to write Ruby any more. All the cool people moved on to writing Scala and Node.js years ago. Our project isn't cool, it's just a bunch of boring old Ruby code. Personally, I'm thrilled that Ruby is now mature enough that the community no longer needs to bother pretending to be being the cool kid on the block. That means the rest of us who just like to Get Shit Done can roll up our sleeves and focus on the task of building stuff with our peers rather than frantically running …

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By Assaf of Labnotes 3 months ago.
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§ Parallel.js gives you high level access to multicore processing using web workers . Runs in modern browsers and Node.js

§ Resemble.js analyses and compares images with HTML5 canvas and JavaScript .

§ Rollbar just launched out of beta. We migrated over from AirBrake a couple of months back, and it works like a charm (we do Node and Ruby). Better error messages, daily summary, multiple logging levels, and more. Recommended.

§ the_silver_searcher — A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster .

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By Todd Hoff of High Scalability 3 months ago.
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…LESS, JST, Bootstrap, Fab, git, Python, Node.js, and S3 to serve static content. Excellent description of their low cost, low overhead process.

Spotify sings In praise of "boring" technology : More often than not, the right tool for the job is piece of software that has been around for some time, with proven success. One example would be writing a backend service in Java or Python instead of Go or Node.JS. Another example would be storing data in MySQL

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