Re: Node Modules or Sub Apps (Was: Hosting a Large Number of Node Apps on the IBM i)

[Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron

let me ask you a simple question ...

"Who is going to maintain the trail of different programming technologies
you
leaves behind you when you choses to leave the building?"

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I've been mostly trying to stay out of the debate though have been watching
> it.  A couple comments:
>
> 1 - The internet has never known the amount of workload the likes of
> Netflix/LinkedIn/Walmart/etc are processing.  Easy for us to sit back with
> our 1/10000th of a work load and say the technology/approach is junk.
>
> 2 - Each of these shops didn't start out with Node.js and instead moved to
> Node.js from something else.  I think Walmart said they liked Java/Servlets
> but couldn't develop in it fast enough.  They more features faster because
> of Amazon.
>
> 3 - The sheer amount of open source can become unwieldy.  That's why the
> community started creating things like ruby-toolbox.com to convey stats
> about open source categories (i.e. ORM) to lessen the amount of time a
> programmer needs to spend researching options.  In short, this is
> aggregation at its best.
>
> ​4 - Jade/haml/<insert other html-lessening technology> are great tools for
> creating more whitespace in the view layer code.  Less for my eyes to
> consume means faster to maintain (for me anyways).
>
> ​5 - EGL had(has?) phenomenal technology that I don't know if it has been
> accomplished well in other stacks.​  For example, front-end to back-end
> line-by-line visual debugger.  IBM screwed up and thought it could
> manufacture a language and bring it to popularity.  They've since learned
> you need to buy your way into existing popularity (i.e. purchase of
> StrongLoop - a big Node.js player).
>
> 6 - Neils, keep pursuing Javascript on JVM and let us know how it goes.
> I've also gotten Scala working though haven't developed anything of
> significance yet.
>
>
>
> Aaron Bartell
> litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i
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