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Posted by Sean McGary on March 6, 2011 @ 6:23 pm

With NodeJS and server-side Javascript becoming a very prominent technology in web applications today, I figured Id give an introduction to NodeJS to get everyone up and running. "But how can Javascript run in a server environment, I thought it required a browser and was only used to make my website interactive". NodeJS allows you to build applications written in Javascript with the help of Google's V8 Javascript rendering engine that is at the heart of the Googl...

Posted by Sean McGary on May 13, 2010 @ 4:03 am

When it comes to scaling a web application, one of the easiest ways to boost performance is with an asynchronous queue. Since web apps have started to become as complex as native desktop applications, users are expecting them to perform like such. This is where using asynchronous queues comes in to play. Typically with high traffic sites like Facebook, digg, twitter, et al, not everything needs to happen instantaneously, it just needs to look like it. For example, when you choose to send a mess...

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