Scaling Your Node.js Apps: Progress Your Personal Projects to Production-Ready - Softcover

Doglio, Fernando

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484239903 ISBN 13: 9781484239902

Publisher: Apress, 2018

Synopsis

Take your Node.js application into production-ready status, capable of scaling up to whatever your needs might be. You'll discover that architecting for successful, popular sites is an essential tool of any professional Node.js developer, and learning to scale your own applications is a great place to start.

Using this book you will learn when to scale, what factors should trigger scaling, and what architectural techniques are best suited for scaling. You will also explore common pitfalls that arise when scaling a Node.js application and solutions to correct them.

Including analyses of success cases at the largest-scale companies, such as Netflix and Paypal,  this book will get you started with scaling in no time at all.

What You'll Learn

• Determine what factors should trigger the need to scale
  

• Discover different architectural patterns that lend themselves to scaling

• Resolve problems that arise when scaling up a Node.js application
  

• Monitor a platform in order to understand when to start scaling

Who This Book Is For

The main audience for this book are Node.js developers with a mid-level understanding of the technology. Novice Node users will also benefit from the coverage of generic scaling-related topics.

About this title

About the Author

Fernando Doglio has been a Web Developer for the past 10 years. During that time, he's had the opportunity to work with many leading technologies such as PHP, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Node. js, Angular.js, AJAX, REST APIs, and others. He creates scalable architectures for big data platforms. When not programming, he can be seen spending time with his family. He can be contacted on twitter at: @deleteman123

From the Back Cover

Take your Node.js application into production-ready status, capable of scaling up to whatever your needs might be. You'll discover that architecting for successful, popular sites is an essential tool of any professional Node.js developer, and learning to scale your own applications is a great place to start.

Using this book you will learn when to scale, what factors should trigger scaling, and what architectural techniques are best suited for scaling. You will also explore common pitfalls that arise when scaling a Node.js application and solutions to correct them.

Including analyses of success cases at the largest-scale companies, such as Netflix and Paypal,  this book will get you started with scaling in no time at all.

Edition details

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1484239903
• ISBN 13: 9781484239902
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 177