Node at LinkedIn: The Pursuit of Thinner, Lighter, Faster.

A interview with senior director of mobile engineering at professional networking website LinkedIn, Kiran Prasad, is presented. He discusses LinkedIn's decision to use a JavaScript-based software computing platform, called Node.js, what he finds compelling about Node, and why LinkedIn chose to move...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 44 - 52
Main Authors: Prasad, Kiran, Norton, Kelly, Coatta, Terry
Format: Interview
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Feb2014
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