Category: Node.js

Clinic simplifies the process of investigating and fixing performance issues in your Node.js applications

In this post we’re going to take a look at Fastify, a high-performance HTTP framework for Node.js

Promises can be a powerful choice for a Node.js project, but there are some pitfalls to be aware of.

We are announcing a new alliance to help customers migrate to using Node.js on Azure

Taking advantage of the new Web App for Containers service offered by Azure to deploy a containerized Node.js application

Featuring two open source tools developed by Matteo Collina and David Mark Clements of nearForm.

A deep-dive into optimizations that should be made to achieve smooth rendering, and a low resource footprint for Electron on all platforms

Introduction I recently worked on a pretty cool feature for autocannon that makes it easier for users to download and use it. The feature is the pre-compilation of the native Node.js modules that autocannon depends on. This means that autocannon users don’t have to compile dependencies themselves. Therefore, they don’t need to have build tools…

At NearForm, we like to scratch our own itch, and we build tools based on the needs of our customers and our own needs as consultants. When David Mark Clements and myself were in London conducting a performance training and consulting engagement with Net-A-Porter, we noticed that the routes which were logging more were the slowest ones. Moreover,…

At the beginning of September 2013, we had the pleasure of hearing Bill Scott from PayPal talk about the revolution that is happening there through the use of Node.js and Lean-UX practices. Bill arrived in PayPal in 2011 to a risk-averse, “not invented here” culture where long shelf life was the norm. Things were so…