Items tagged nodejs in 2011
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What are the best practices in Node.js to communicate with an existing Java backend?
Node speaks HTTP extremely well, and using HTTP means you can do things like put an HTTP load balancer or cache (such as varnish) between Node and your Java application server at a later date.
[... 55 words]Does Quora use node.js?
Quora use their own event-based Python web framework which they’ve talked about quite a bit, called LiveNode. I believe it’s based on Tornado, the open source Python evented framework/appserver that was open sourced by Facebook after they acquired FriendFeed.
[... 49 words]Is Node.js a strong platform to use to build a RESTful API platform?
Yes. It’s very, very good at speaking HTTP.
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