1. A Love Story: Presented in II acts Shane Hansen Software Engineer Whitane Technologies, LLC

2. Shane Hansen Utah based Software Engineer Likes it when things are easy 3.

Rapid Development Frameworks are important because they:

• Encourage exploration

• Decrease costs associated with each iteration

• Decrease time to market

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The web is doing I/O wrong

Serial I/O is bad for business

Facebook knows this (tornado)

6.

We need to start thinking like this

But how can we parallelize?

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Fork worker processes, free up the main process

Postgres does it so it cant be all bad

Processes cant share data except through expensive IPC mechanisms.

Variations cgi/preforking/fastcgi

8.

Run jobs in separate thread of execution

MySQL does it so it cant be all bad

Threads can share data easily

Deadlocking, thread safety, other headaches.

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Event driven

memcached does it, so it cant be all bad

One address space, One thread, no headaches

Sucessors (epoll/kqueue) are the basis for solving the C10K problem.

Paired with event loops

Node does this.

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The language you love to hate

Lisp in cs clothing anonymous functions, closures.

Culture of asynchnonous, callback driven code patterns

Google made it fast. Like really fast.

Node does this too.

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2k+ projects on github

500+ packages available in npm

Database drivers

Web frameworks

Worker threads

Parsers

Testing frameworks

Payment gateway integrations

Web analytics

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