It is not supposed to fly but it does

gabriele lana gabriele.lana@cleancode.it twitter: @gabrielelanahttp://joind.in/talk/view/3707

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldnt beable to fly, but the bumble beedoesnt know it, so it goes on

?? ? ?

• javascript as the primary language?• server side programming in javascript?• server side programming in a vm (v8) designed for a browser?• mono-thread? what about multicores?• wtf are all those callbacks? worse than lisp’s parentheses

this ismadness !!!

...but the bumble bee doesnt know it, so it goes on

“On the server side, our entire mobile software stack is completely built in Node”http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/16/linkedin-node/

But with a technology so relativelynew, is LinkedIn concerned about bringa somewhat untested technology to an already at-scale app? “There’s definitely that concern, We did an analysis of a number of platforms -- Ruby, Node, Java, Scala” http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/16/linkedin-node/

“We’ll continue to use it and see how it does. That’s how we’ll make our technology choices”http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/16/linkedin-node/

They went from running 15 servers with 15 instances (virtual servers) on eachphysical machine, to just four instances that can handle double the traffic http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/16/linkedin-node/

I promise I’ll be good :-)uhmmm....we’ll see

at leastyou are not a stranger

Damien Katz @ Ruby Fringe 2008

I l ve node.jsbecause it mademe feel a genius

community

NPM (2010-11) (node package manager)coder@apollo:~/Work/src/node/examples$ curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh...npm okIt workedcoder@apollo:~/Work/src/node/examples$ npm list | wc -l1776

NPM (2011-09)(node package manager) from 1776 to 3958 packages in 10 months

packages lastNPM: update in days 53% updatedin last 60 days

number ofNPM: total updates91% < 10 updates 32% 1 update 7% 0 updates

simplicity works!

But...

sometimes you wish to know where to go...

other times youneed to go back...

you may feel

you need to get dirty

the codeis with you

...but the bumble bee doesnt know it, so it goes on

http://www.maestrosdelweb.com	2471
http://feeds.feedburner.com	15
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http://translate.google.com	5
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http://a0.twimg.com	3
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It is not supposed to fly but it does

by Gabriele Lana on Sep 27, 2011

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