I am happy to announce the release of node-perfectapi version 1.0. This release improves stability, and improves scalability. For a brief intro to perfectapi, just follow the link. I’ll talk about scalability a little bit because it is an important new feature. As you probably know, Node.js applications run by default in a single [...]
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Benchmarking APIs using PerfectAPI vs Express.js vs Restify.js
[Update: since these benchmarks were run, performance of Restify has improved substantially to where its performance is on a par with the others. I have not got around to updating the charts in this article to reflect that]. In the cloud today, performance is more important than ever because it can be so easily correlated [...]
Writing a PaaS in 1 week – retrospective
Well the week was last week, and while it was not as successful as I would have liked, it was a very productive week. Dogfooding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food. The week was very valuable to me in that I discovered several bugs in the node-perfectapi package. I also discovered some new features that would be helpful, so that [...]
Writing a PaaS (using Node.js) in 1 week – Wednesday
This is a continuation of previous posts: Writing a PaaS (using Node.js) in 1 week – Monday Writing a PaaS (using Node.js) in 1 week – Tuesday Well Wednesday is done. The reverse proxy is written, code at https://github.com/perfectapi/node-paas-machine-proxy. As a reminder, the purpose of the reverse proxy was to provide a single IP + host [...]
Writing a PaaS (using Node.js) in 1 week – Tuesday
This is a continuation of the post Writing a PaaS (using Node.js) in 1 week – Monday. Well I’m going to call Tuesday done. The Service Registry is written and installed on my server. Source code is at https://github.com/perfectapi/node-paas-registry. As with all perfectapi APIs, there is an automatic test app page. I’ve exposed this one to [...]
Writing a PaaS (using Node.js) in 1 week – Monday
UPDATE: The week is over. There is a retrospective post here. I have posted Tuesdays notes here, Wednesday’s notes here, Thursday’s notes here, and Friday’s notes here. I have decided to write a simple PaaS (Platform as a Service), in order to demonstrate the capabilities of my perfectapi API framework for Node.js. I don’t [...]