What is Node? Answers from Node Summit

January 25, 2012 – 8:32 am

While talking to fellow Node.js enthusiasts in San Francisco for Node Summit this week, we asked what seems like a simple question: “What is Node?” We got answers ranging from the basic but technical to the detailed but metaphorical, and provided by a wide range of experts from companies of all sizes working in a [...]

By Jackson West | Posted in Events, For Developers, Interviews, Media (Podcasts, Videos, Webinars), node.js, Video | Tags: , , , | Leave a Comment

Cloud9′s Plans for Node.js Community

January 23, 2012 – 3:20 pm

Ruben Daniels, CEO of Cloud9, the online environment for the development of JavaScript and HTML5 applications, has a great post over on the Cloud9 blog about all of the initiatives the company is undertaking to nurture and support the Node.js community. Take a look a the new community blog Nodebits.org, the official Node manual site Nodemanual.org, and the [...]

By Ginger Tulley | Posted in Customers, For Developers, Joyent Customers, node.js, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , | Comments (1)

Sprint Joins Mobile Panel at Node Summit

January 23, 2012 – 6:00 am

2012 marks a new chapter in Book of Node as hundreds of developers and business leaders come together for the first Node Summit in San Francisco on January 24th and 25th. Headlining the mobile panel, Jason Delker, Director of Product Development for Sprint, will speak about Sprint’s plans for fostering the growing developer community as [...]

By Nima | Posted in Events, For Developers, For Sys Admins and Dev Ops, Mobile, node.js | Tags: , , , , | Leave a Comment

eBay chooses Node.js as the runtime stack in ql.io: a data-retrieval and aggregation gateway for HTTP APIs

November 30, 2011 – 9:40 am

Today eBay announced their release of ql.io, a declarative, evented, data-retrieval and aggregation gateway for HTTP APIs. Subbu Allamaraju, an Architect at eBay, explains, “Through ql.io, we want to help application developers increase engineering clock speed and improve end user experience. ql.io can reduce the number of lines of code required to call multiple HTTP APIs while simultaneously bringing [...]

By Eric Braun | Posted in Benchmarks, For Business, For Developers, Games, Mobile, node.js, Open Source, Use Cases | Tags: , | Comments (1)

Node.js: #1 Most Watched GitHub Repository

November 28, 2011 – 2:03 pm

Well that didn’t take very long. Only three years since the creation of Node.js by Ryan Dahl (of Joyent), the programming language / runtime environment is now the most watched / followed code repository on GitHub. (image is the time line of commits to Node.js Repository in 2011 courtesy of Venture Beat) From the VentureBeat article by [...]

By alexsalkever | Posted in For Developers, Games, Joyent, Mobile, node.js, Uncategorized | Tags: , | Comments (1)

Node SmartMachines

August 26, 2010 – 10:23 am

In June of 2008 Reasonably Smart was launched – it was a server side JavaScript environment that
let you develop your web application for a PaaS environment, and deploy that code using git. The pedigree has continued with Joyent’s latest product, the Node SmartMachine.

By James A. Duncan | Posted in Announcements | Tags: , , | Comments (2)
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