Now.js: project and review (opens in new tab)

(fizbizfiz.biz)

14 pointsjethroalias9714y ago9 comments

9 comments

9 comments · 3 top-level

jannes14y ago· 4 in thread

Why does this have "post mortem" in the title? It is so misleading. Whenever I read "post mortem" in a title I immediately think somebody or something has died (possibly metaphorically). In this case I expected the article to be about an abandoned (dead) project. It was a very confusing read.

Maybe it's because English isn't my native language and the Latin meaning just makes a lot more sense to me.

chc14y ago

"Post mortem" as a noun in English is short for "post mortem examination." It does refer to examining a dead body, but it's a common term in software development as well. It refers to the process of going over a completed project and figuring out what went right and what went wrong.

Jeff Atwood wrote an essay on it a while back if you want to read more about it: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/11/the-project-postmor...

buu70014y ago

No, the Latin and English meanings are the same. It isn't 100% clear what the author thought he was saying, though he probably meant a debrief (as guessed by OP).

jethroalias97OP14y ago

hmmm, I suppose I've always associated it with some manner of debriefing, i.e. a mission post mortem. But, to avoid confusion I've updated the title.

buu70014y ago

Edit: Nevermind; see chc's comment.

sthatipamala14y ago· 1 in thread

RPC in NowJS is achieved through function stubs. The "client function" that gets run on the server is just a stub function that tells the client to run its own version.

Code is only executed on the machine on which it was defined. There is no toString or eval going on here.

dreamdu5t14y ago

Are there any other libraries that do this? Wouldn't this be fairly trivial to code up utilizing socket.io? Just curious as to what is unique about now.js

mnutt14y ago· 1 in thread

HAProxy is easy to set up and is probably what he wants, if he plans to scale to multiple machines. But on those machines I'd recommend cluster.js. (http://learnboost.github.com/cluster) It will spawn n child workers, proxy requests to them, and restart them if they die.

edmellum14y ago

It's worth mentioning that clustering will also be built into Node.js 0.6.0 which is being released in the coming week according to the official blog.

Don't know if it's as extendable and pretty as TJ's cluster though.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

9 comments

9 comments · 3 top-level

jannes14y ago· 4 in thread

Maybe it's because English isn't my native language and the Latin meaning just makes a lot more sense to me.

chc14y ago

Jeff Atwood wrote an essay on it a while back if you want to read more about it: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/11/the-project-postmor...

buu70014y ago

No, the Latin and English meanings are the same. It isn't 100% clear what the author thought he was saying, though he probably meant a debrief (as guessed by OP).

jethroalias97OP14y ago

hmmm, I suppose I've always associated it with some manner of debriefing, i.e. a mission post mortem. But, to avoid confusion I've updated the title.

buu70014y ago

Edit: Nevermind; see chc's comment.

sthatipamala14y ago· 1 in thread

RPC in NowJS is achieved through function stubs. The "client function" that gets run on the server is just a stub function that tells the client to run its own version.

Code is only executed on the machine on which it was defined. There is no toString or eval going on here.

dreamdu5t14y ago

Are there any other libraries that do this? Wouldn't this be fairly trivial to code up utilizing socket.io? Just curious as to what is unique about now.js

mnutt14y ago· 1 in thread

edmellum14y ago

It's worth mentioning that clustering will also be built into Node.js 0.6.0 which is being released in the coming week according to the official blog.

Don't know if it's as extendable and pretty as TJ's cluster though.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse