Nodejitsu (Hosted Node.js platform) Raises $750K from East/West Coast VCs

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/04/20/nodejitsu-raises-750k-from-east-and-west-coast-vcs/

by frankdenbow • 15 years ago

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beck5• 15 years ago

With the permanent stream of Node related stuff I have to ask is this what hacker news was like a few years ago with Rails?

(I am aware node and rails are not direct substitutes)

j2d2j2d2• 15 years ago

"I/O has been done wrong for the last 30 years,” he said, referring to the fact that Node.js allows servers to react to specific events."

This statement shows how hype-oriented this team is. Node.js hasn't invented anything new. On top of that, it reimplemented 30 year old concepts badly.

I don't want to start a language war, but a simple comparison of Erlang (which is 20 years old) and Node.js will send this point home:

1) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3887433/advantages-of-erl...

2) http://journal.dedasys.com/2010/04/29/erlang-vs-node-js

piotrSikora4• 15 years ago

Why in the world would you compare these two? It's apples to oranges...

sausagefeet7• 15 years ago

How? They are both trying to solve the same problem and they take different approaches, what is unreasonable about comparing that?

FooBarWidget2• 15 years ago

Don't compare Erlang to Node.js. Erlang is not a good implementation of evented servers. I'm not saying that Erlang is a bad implementation of evented servers, I'm saying that Erlang doesn't implement the evented architecture at all. Instead Erlang with its lightweight processes is more similar to the plain old 1-thread-per-IO-channel worker model except Erlang can spawn many more processes than the OS can spawn OS threads. Not that there's anything wrong with this; Erlang's processes are so lightweight that you can essentially get the same amount of scalability as evented servers.

The advantage of Node.js over Erlang is that it makes scalable I/O available in a mainstream high-level language. I do not call Erlang mainstream. Although I do think Node.js is a bit overhyped; Ruby's EventMachine and Python's Twisted provide similar functionality, and in particular EventMachine is extremely well-written.

sausagefeet7• 15 years ago

I disagree with you. Determining how well they solve the problem they claim to solve relative to each other is a valid comparison.

va_coder2• 15 years ago

I think Node.js is neat but could someone tell me how it's so awesome.

When Rails came it was truly awesome because the language it used and the framework was so much easier to work with then Java or .Net and some would say better designed then Perl or PHP.

I don't see how Node.js makes developing so much easier than say Rails (unless of course you have a crazy high IO kind of app, which most don't)

FooBarWidget2• 15 years ago

Node.js isn't easier than Rails, at least for the things that Rails is good at. Node.js is good for apps that require high I/O concurrency, things like chat servers, but much much worse than Rails for pretty much everything else. I see Node.js only being useful for special types of applications, it is not the next Rails or anything like that. Unfortunately I foresee that people will (ab?)use Node.js as some kind of Rails replacement.

olegp3• 15 years ago

To add to what FooBarWidget said, I do believe that there are inherent advantages to using JavaScript on the server for developing webapps. For one, due to the dominance of JavaScript within browsers, it is the one dynamic language we will be stuck with for at least the next 20 years!

However, unless you're implementing servers, I believe it's better to go with synchronous I/O to simplify webapp development. That is exactly what we're doing at Akshell (http://www.akshell.com).

g123g• 15 years ago

This looks like a very popular new business model for the startups. Take any existing or upcoming langugage/framework like php, RoR, django, node.js etc. etc. and start creating a dedicated hosted platform for that a la Heroku. And start counting the money flowing in.

bbsabelli• 15 years ago

Just doing a "git commit; git push; cap deploy" on your own app and feeling confident in the outcome is not an insignificant amount of work. I can't imagine what it would be like to take an upcoming environment and create a platform around it to let anyone deploy, run and be backed-up without thinking.

So, if you can pull this off and make it look easy, then take my money.

Nodejitsu (Hosted Node.js platform) Raises $750K from East/West Coast VCs

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