July 6, 2011 — Sometimes, the geeks come out of the shadows and hit the mainstream consciousness. Remember the early ’00s and the rush of publicity for Ruby and Ajax as they became the calling cards of Web 2.0? Or in 2008, when Hadoop, the open-source version of Google’s MapReduce, started percolating up to the mainstream media, highlighting the new era of big data analytics? Well, Node.js looks like the next candidate for such elevation to the mainstream.
Behind the computer science chatter about event-driven access to web servers as opposed to thread-based access and figuring out why JavaScript engines are so hot, here are some basic reasons why Node.js is hot and what it allows programmers to do. Read More
