September 2011
3 posts
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A journey to center of Redis
I’ve been using Redis lately and I really love the work they have done. In one of my recent projects I had a typical scenario of having users on different channels, and since the old front-end (Javascript) was doing a JSONP through jQuery, I had to take in account for people who were not able to get back to channel due to some disconnection. Yes, its a typical scenario of...
The Node Redumption!
In my previous post I did some benchmarks for NodeJS vs Java’s NIO. For benchmarking I wrote my custom event driven loop handling, and parsing HTTP connections; and what else you can expect! Hell broke loose when the NodeJS fans read that. They had sort of weird comments and objections. From those all the weirdness I learned a few things. Things that were pretty simple and straight forward....
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Node on nails!
Before I start this post let me be very clear and precise “I am not advising you to leave NodeJS or shift to Java [PERIOD!!!]”.
I’ve been in this debate and there is a misunderstanding among my geek friends that NodeJS is the future and blah blah blah… I totally love Javascript (No bragging I have a history of being Javascript expert and I’ve been writing some love for JS too); there is no...