At XO Group, we primarily work with Node and Ruby to build out our system of interconnected services. We get the implicit performance… (more…)

Node.js is built on top of Google's V8 engine, which in turns compiles JavaScript. JavaScript is asynchronous in nature. Asynchronous is a programming pattern which provides the feature of non-blocking code i.e do not stop or do not depend on another func... (more…)

It started with an out of the blue meeting where I was assigned a task to fetch data from a S3 bucket with data stored as csv files, delete the downloaded files, process the data, hit some internal APIs in a throttled fashion, get the output (both success... (more…)

When you develop a Web Application or an API for IoT, performance and scalability are importants. NodeJS scales well, but Crystal lang is better. We have done some benchmarks, and results are surprising !

PineappleJS - Easy to use yet complex NodeJS Web application framework. (more…)