Archive for August, 2011

New metrics on no.de

You may have noticed that the no.de service got a big facelift last week. The new version of the software has a lot of new features, among them some pretty substantial improvements to Analytics. Recall that we already had metrics for Node.js HTTP server and client operations, garbage collection, socket ops, filesystem ops, and CPU executions. We’ve now [...]

Posted on August 29, 2011 at 5:55 pm by dap · Permalink · Comments Closed
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JavaScript Lint on SmartOS

Photo by Sam Fraser-Smith Back at Fishworks, we used a tool called JavaScript Lint (JSL) for static code analysis. You may know that lint was originally written to identify potential semantic problems in C code, like use of uninitialized variables or blocks of unreachable code. Lint warnings are usually static checks that could reasonably have been [...]

Posted on August 23, 2011 at 3:12 pm by dap · Permalink · 4 Comments
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Distributed Web Architures @ SF Node.js Meetup

At the Node Meetup here at Joyent‘s offices a few weeks ago I gave a brief talk about Cloud Analytics as a distributed web architecture. Matt Ranney of Voxer and Curtis Chambers of Uber also spoke about their companies’ web architectures. Thanks to Jackson for putting the videos together. All around it was a great event!

Posted on August 23, 2011 at 2:05 pm by dap · Permalink · Comments Closed
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