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Mastering Node.js

By : Sandro Pasquali
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Mastering Node.js

By: Sandro Pasquali

Overview of this book

Node.js is a modern development stack focused on providing an easy way to build scalable network software. Backed by a growing number of large companies and a rapidly increasing developer base, Node is revolutionizing the way that software is being built today. Powered by Google's V8 engine and built out of C++ modules, this is a JavaScript environment for the enterprise.Mastering Node.js will take the reader deep into this exciting development environment. Beginning with a comprehensive breakdown of its innovative non-blocking evented design, Node's structure is explained in detail, laying out how its blazingly fast I/O performance simplifies the creation of fast servers, scalable architectures, and responsive web applications.Mastering Node.js takes you through a concise yet thorough tour of Node's innovative evented non-blocking design, showing you how to build professional applications with the help of detailed examples.Learn how to integrate your applications with Facebook and Twitter, Amazon and Google, creating social apps and programs reaching thousands of collaborators on the cloud. See how the Express and Path frameworks make the creation of professional web applications painless. Set up one, two, or an entire server cluster with just a few lines of code, ready to scale as soon as you're ready to launch. Move data seamlessly between databases and file systems, between clients, and across network protocols, using a beautifully designed, consistent, and predictable set of tools.Mastering Node.js contains all of the examples and explanations you'll need to build applications in a short amount of time and at a low cost, running on a scale and speed that would have been nearly impossible just a few years ago.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Mastering Node.js
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using Amazon Web Services in your application


As a few thousand users become a few million users, as databases scale to terabytes of data, the cost and complexity of maintaining an application begins to overwhelm teams with insufficient experience, funding, and/or time. When faced with rapid growth it is sometimes useful to delegate responsibilities for one or more aspects of your application to cloud-based service providers. AWS (Amazon Web Services) is just such a suite of cloud-computing services, offered by amazon.com.

Note

You will need an AWS account in order to use these examples. All of the services we will explore are free or nearly free for low-volume development uses. To create an account on AWS, visit the following link:

http://aws.amazon.com/

Once you have created an account, you will be able to manage all of your services via the AWS console at:

https://console.aws.amazon.com/console/home

In this section we will learn how to use three popular AWS services:

  • For storing documents and...