Node.js
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- 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