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▶ The State of Node.js Core with Colin Ihrig — Colin sits on the Node.js Technical Steering Committee (TSC) and gives us a 30-minute presentation reviewing what’s going on and some potential upcoming features (including a permissions system, better TypeScript integration, proxy support for fetch and…
How To Scale Node Apps with Clustering — Node’s cluster module can be used to run and manage multiple Node instances as a way to distribute workloads. Stanley gives a thorough and practical walkthrough of how to do it and why and when it yields a benefit.…
Ada 1.0: Node’s Forthcoming New URL Parser — Node.js is moving to a new, faster URL parser called Ada (ironically written in C++ and not Ada). It passes the full WHATWG and Node test suites, though we’d be surprised if there aren’t a few teething…
AlaSQL.js 3.0: Isomorphic JavaScript SQL Database — A SQL database you can use in Node.js and the browser. The interesting bit, for me, is how it opens up the idea of using SQL to query JavaScript objects – as in this example. “The library adds…
Building Reliable Distributed Systems in Node — This post introduces the concept of durable execution which is used by a variety of companies and services to run reliable distributed systems. Temporal is a platform that coordinates workflows and durable jobs built around them. Loren Sands-Ramshaw IN…