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Mastering Node.js - Second Edition

By : Sandro Pasquali, Kevin Faaborg
Book Image

Mastering Node.js - Second Edition

By: Sandro Pasquali, Kevin Faaborg

Overview of this book

Node.js, a modern development environment that enables developers to write server- and client-side code with JavaScript, thus becoming a popular choice among developers. This book covers the features of Node that are especially helpful to developers creating highly concurrent real-time applications. It takes you on a tour of Node's innovative event non-blocking design, showing you how to build professional applications. This edition has been updated to cover the latest features of Node 9 and ES6. All code examples and demo applications have been completely rewritten using the latest techniques, introducing Promises, functional programming, async/await, and other cutting-edge patterns for writing JavaScript code. Learn how to use microservices to simplify the design and composition of distributed systems. From building serverless cloud functions to native C++ plugins, from chatbots to massively scalable SMS-driven applications, you'll be prepared for building the next generation of distributed software. By the end of this book, you'll be building better Node applications more quickly, with less code and more power, and know how to run them at scale in production environments.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

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.

You will need an AWS account in order to use these examples. All 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: https://aws.amazon.com/. Once you have created an account, you will be able to manage all of your services via the AWS console: https://aws.amazon.com/console...