Using Garbage Collection & Memory Leaks to trace Node.js performance issues

This is something that I love to debunk because there is alot of HYPE out there around the popular javascript engine Node.js.

Choosing a server-side language is a subjective decision. Should you consider the reliable PHP or the more revolutionary Node.js? Let battle commence...

In a previous post, we discussed how we test LinkedIn's mobile stack, including our Node.js mobile server. Today, we’ll tell you how we make this mobile server fast. Here are our top 10 performance takeaways for working with Node.js: 1. Avoid synchronous…

Facebook has launched Yarn, an open source JavaScript package manager that promises faster and more reliable installs than the massively popular npm.

Last month I noted my opinions on why we should stop using Grunt, Gulp et al. I suggested we should start using npm instead. Here's how…

NoSQL injections in MongoDB with Node.js. This article shows how a Node.js application based on Express and using MongoDB can be vulnerable to NoSQL injections

This week I attended my first TC-39 meeting. For those unaware, TC-39 is the designator of the ECMA working group that defines the…

First off, some words about JavaScript……

First off, some words about JavaScript……

In this article, we are going to take a look at how you can do Node.js end-to-end testing using Nightwatch.js

The growing number of Netflix subscribers -- nearing 85 million at the time of this Node.js Interactive talk -- has generated a number of scaling challenges for the company. In his talk, Yunong Xiao, Principal Software Engineer at Netflix, describes these…

In previous articles, I talked about NodeJS internals, why NodeJS is so fast, V8 internals and its optimization tricks. That’s cool, but…

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