hi, i'm interested in learning from anyone who works with a 100+ employee company (25-50 engineers) that has chosen to adopt node for any part of their stack.
i'm with a fifteen year old company with tons of legacy software (perl, mostly). while everyone's interested in beginning the shift away from perl, we have some concerns about the bleeding-edgedness of node (and the innovative stuff built on top of it, e.g. express (and more frameworky frameworks, e.g. tower, geddy), the connect middlewares, etc.) and the level of industry adoption that is (or isn't?) happening... i'm making no assumptions that such long-standing products as my company offers can simply be ported to node, though there is significant interest in adoption server-side js -- especially for new product offerings on the roadmap. we need to begin somewhere, and we already have a lot of in-house js talent. plus, node/websockets/client mvc seems like the best direction for us to improve our front-end products. so, a couple of questions hopefully somebody can address: how has your team approached the process of deploying node applications to production (e.g. q.a./release process)? what percentage of your user-facing service is backed by node? what gotchas have you encountered in adopting/maintaining/deploying node applications? do you use something like express for your application infrastructure, or something else (geddy, tower)? what are the major companies that you know of (or have personal or professional contacts at), and what level of success have they had adopting/developing/maintaining/releasing node in a high-availability, million-plus-user-base context? what concerns do *you* have using node as a server-side technology? i'm particularly interested in hearing success stories (the bigger, the better, naturally), but also need to know about the gotchas or weird dark corners from dev to qa to production release to support and maintenance. also, anybody know of a node evangelist-type gun-for-hire who could come in for a day (or however long) and break down serious knowledge and experience at this level? thanks, river -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
