Category: software

How I fixed Node.js

My first open-source contribution

It was the lazy Saturday after Thanksgiving, and to burn off some of the extra calories from the preceding days I decided to break into the open-source world. I’d worked with node.js at Jut, so I was acquainted with the platform, though I had no experience with the source code. So I wandered into the issue tracker for the node.js repository and settled on issue 4049, a memory leak in the ChildProcess module.
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Pushing the performance limits of node.js

Building a data analysis platform in Javascript

Historical note: This was originally published as a post on Jut’s blog. Nobody wanted to pay for the product it describes, so Jut has gone in a very different direction of late, and Jut’s blog is a 404 at the moment. As a technical piece, though, I think it merits keeping alive.

We love node.js and Javascript. We love them so much, in fact, that when Jut decided to build a streaming analytics platform from scratch, we put node.js at the center of it all. This decision has brought us several benefits, but along with those came a few unique scaling challenges. With some careful programming, we’ve been able to largely overcome node.js’s limitations: I’ll share with you some of the tricks we used.

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