If I had a dollar for every time somebody mentioned the phrase 'social' to me in the last couple of years, my pants would suffer since I tend to carry all my coins in my right pocket. With my soft credit card wallet. I carry my iPhone in my left pocket, where I carry cash... Continue Reading →
Micro-Service Fun – Node.js + Messaging + Clustering Combo
A: I told you, I'm not allowed to argue unless you've paid. M: I just paid! A: No you didn't. M: I DID! A: No you didn't. M: Look, I don't want to argue about that. A: Well, you didn't pay. M: Aha. If I didn't pay, why are you arguing? I Got you! A:... Continue Reading →
Micro-Services – Fad, FUD, Fo, Fum
But band leader Johnny Rotten didn't sell out in the way that you're thinking. He didn't start as a rebellious kid and tone it down so he could cash in. No, Rotten did the exact opposite -- his punk rebelliousness was selling out. [...] And he definitely wasn't interested in defining an entire movement. From... Continue Reading →
Meanwhile, in Nodeland…
In India, we don't call it "Indian food'. We just call it "food". Rajesh Koothrappali, "The Big Bang Theory" It was always hard for me to make choices. In the archetypical classification of 'satisficers' and 'maximizers', I definitely fall into the latter camp. I research ad nauseum, read reviews, measure carefully, take everything into account, and... Continue Reading →
Node.js and Enterprise – Why Not?
My daughter is 14. Like her father, she loves and plays music. As with all the restless teens, sitting through multiple hours of Grammys 2014 was a non-starter. Therefore, she installed me as her push notification service. My role was to sit on the sofa (iPad in hand - I am not crazy to just watch TV for... Continue Reading →
Pushy Node.js II: The Mullet Architecture
The post title unintentionally sounds like a movie franchise (e.g. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), but in my defense I DID promise I will return to the topic of pushing events to the browser using Socket.io and Node.js in the post about message queues. The idea was to take the example I wrote about in... Continue Reading →