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…)

<p>I can't vouch for either of these, personally, but if you're hell-bent on doing the work in-process, there have been a couple of independent implementations of the WebWorkers API for node, as listed on the node modules page:</p> (more…)

All the cool kids are using Node.js these days. But perhaps more interesting, big companies are using it too. In the spring, I contracted with Walmart Labs and saw it firsthand. They’re getting good results with it, and that’s legitimizing the platform. M... (more…)

One of the reasons I was first drawn to Node.js is because I wanted to create a program that emailed people when a button is clicked. At the time, I had only really dabbled in front end development… (more…)

In this tutorial, you can learn how to write an interactive and useful command line application using Node.js. (more…)