JSFoo 2012 Chennai

The objective is to understand the popularity of node.js.

Outline

• Understand what exactly node.js is.
  • High level overview of how to build something similar to node.js using V8, libio, libev
• Node.js internals
  • Deep inside Event driven programming vs Thread based programming Vs Green Threads
  • Pros & Cons of event driven programming
  • Asynchronous IO vs Fake Asynchronous IO
  • Understand poll, select, /dev/poll, kqueue, IO completion ports
• Why node.js is that popular?
  • Comparing node.js with other similar solutions
  • Various unique aspects of node.js
• Scaling for production environment
  • How scaling web applications is different from scaling networking applications
  • The multi-core story
  • When to use fork/threads/workers
• Node.js community
  • Adoption of node.js
  • Choosing the right framework/modules
• Pros & Cons of using node.js
  • Things to be considered before switching to node.js
• Future of node.js

Speaker bio

Part of my role is to evaluate new relevant technologies and recently had to touch Node.js. I am here to share my learning.

Slides

http://nodejs-jsfoo.heroku.com/