Recently we had to try a new technology . As expected, we did hit edge case quickly. After analyzing thoroughly, we had to ditch part of the stack. But, I had developed much interest over Node.js , Redis , WebSocket and client app technologies lately and I hope that they'll take the lead. Some frequently asked questions about these technologies: What is Node.js? It is set of JavaScript libraries around Google’s V8 JavaScript engine, written by Ryan Dahl in 2009. Why Node.js is picking up? With Node.js, it’s easy to write web server in pure JavaScript. We can totally eliminate another language interpreter layer by programming the web server to handle the request directly (For example, in LAMP, PHP is required to handle the requests. But, in Node.js based server, no such layer is required). Is Node.js a right choice? It depends. Though few developers may find it easy to adopt, others may find it difficult to write quality code in event-driven asynchronous style. When th
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