Node.js

• Node.js doesn't use Apache, it is its own web server
• Primary users are for realtime applications or making many external requests
• It runs javascript serverside
• Uses require() to pull in chunks of functionality
• Reverse proxy to run both node and apache on the same server
• Need error handling, so one error doesn't crash the whole process
• Process manager to restart stopped processes
• You send blocks of callback code with requests
• NPM: Node Package Manager
• You can include different versions of the same library from different parts of your code
• Core development is drawing near version 1
• Use different processes for different workloads or for multiple cores
• Redis and memcache can syncronize data between threads
• Redis can do shared memory between different languages
• Etherpad is in node