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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
Subjects:
Prasad, Kiran
LinkedIn (Web resource)
LinkedIn Corp.
JavaScript programming language
Computing platforms
Employees
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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 away from using the architectural computing pattern, Active Record, of the open source web application framework, Ruby on Rails, as the model representation.