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Interview with Mikeal Rogers: Node.js Fork that Ended up as a Giant, Unifying Step Forward

posted by martyb on Sunday June 21 2015, @08:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the two-nodes-back-into-one dept.

tonymercmobily writes with a FreeSoftwareMagazine interview:

Node.js is the software that allows you to run Javascript to create powerful server-side applications by using Google's V8 Javascript Engine. As a Node developer myself, I have always felt frustrated by seeing that Joyent, the company behind Node.s, was extremely conservative in terms of upgrading node to use the latest V8 version; the project was also struggling to get developers to actually contribute to code. This is why Fedor Indutny did the unthinkable: forked node and created IO.js. Today, the two projects are uniting possibly offering developers the best of both worlds

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  • (Score: 1) by Pino P on Sunday June 21 2015, @03:41PM

    by Pino P (4721) on Sunday June 21 2015, @03:41PM (#199100) Journal

    A small 1 core / 512 ram vps instance goes for as little as 5$ a month.

    Is that with its own IPv4 address, or is it behind a NAT?

  • (Score: 2) by mtrycz on Sunday June 21 2015, @04:15PM

    by mtrycz (60) on Sunday June 21 2015, @04:15PM (#199107)

    Digitalocean, which I am not affiliated with, but ofen use, gives you a public ipv4 (or ipv6 in some regions), and optional "private networking". Also, it's the most flexible I know (haven't tried most of the new ones like Heroku, tho), giving you the option to create and destroy "droplets" on the fly, and even programmatically with an API. The cheapest "doplet" is 5$ a month with hourly billing, and you can dispose of your "droplet" when you're done.

    I think it wasn't actually invented for stable hosting, but dynamic prototyping and such, but the prices are good even as hosting goes, for the small instances. For VPS at least. I don't know how does it compare for big instances, since I have never used those... all my projects are small/low traffic.

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