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Mastering Node.js

You're reading from Mastering Node.js Build robust and scalable real-time server-side web applications efficiently

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785888960

Length 498 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Node.js

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Authors (2):

Kevin Faaborg

Sandro Pasquali

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Understanding the Node Environment FREE CHAPTER

2. Understanding Asynchronous Event-Driven Programming

3. Streaming Data Across Nodes and Clients

4. Using Node to Access the Filesystem

5. Managing Many Simultaneous Client Connections

6. Creating Real-Time Applications

7. Using Multiple Processes

8. Scaling Your Application

9. Microservices

10. Testing Your Application

11. Organizing Your Work into Modules

12. Creating Your Own C++ Add-ons

Chapter 9. Microservices

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

– Goethe

As software has grown more complex, it has become impossible for any one person, or even a single team, to maintain total awareness of an entire architecture. The rise of the internet promoted the concepts of frontend (a browser on one computer processing JavaScript, CSS, HTML) and backend (another computer running a database and an HTTP server) unified on a single server to deliver one product—the web page. A user might click on a button, a call is made to a server, that server might check a database, and will ultimately deliver an HTML page.

The pace has picked up. The modern user expects powerful and highly-interactive mobile apps to entertain them or drive their business, at a low cost, with regular updates. Now, one person can create an app that gains millions of users within months. To scale from one person to a company supporting millions of concurrent users in a few months...

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Authors (2)

Sandro Pasquali

Sandro Pasquali

Sandro Pasquali formed a technology company named Simple in 1997, that sold the world's first JavaScript-based application development framework and was awarded several patents for deployment and advertising technologies that anticipated the future of Internet-based software. Node represents, for him, the natural next step in the inexorable march towards the day when JavaScript powers nearly every level of software development. Sandro has led the design of enterprise-grade applications for some of the largest companies in the world, including Nintendo, Major League Baseball, Bang and Olufsen, LimeWire, AppNexus, Conde Nast, and others. He has displayed interactive media exhibits during the Venice Biennial, won design awards, built knowledge management tools for research institutes and schools, and started and run several start-ups. Always seeking new ways to blend design excellence and technical innovation, he has made significant contributions across all levels of software architecture, from data management and storage tools to innovative user interfaces and frameworks. He is the author of Deploying Node.js, also by Packt Publishing, which aims to help developers get their work in front of others. Sandro runs a software development company in New York and trains corporate development teams interested in using Node and JavaScript to improve their products. He spends the rest of his time entertaining his beautiful daughter, and his wife.

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Kevin Faaborg

Kevin Faaborg

Kevin Faaborg is a professional software developer and avid software hobbyist. At Harvard, he learned C programming from visiting professor Brian Kernighan. He witnessed and contributed to how digital technology has shaped music distribution, working first at MTV Networks, then Lime Wire LLC, and now Spotify AB, where he designed and started the patent program. Kevin travels frequently, spending time each year in San Francisco, Colorado, NYC, and Stockholm. Follow him at github/zootella

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