Scaling Your Node.js Apps: Progress Your Personal Projects to Production-Ready

✍ Scribed by Fernando Doglio

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 170
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Take your Node.js application into production-ready status, capable of scaling up to whatever your needs might be. You'll discover that architecting for successful, popular sites is an essential tool of any professional Node.js developer, and learning to scale your own applications is a great place to start.
Using this book you will learn when to scale, what factors should trigger scaling, and what architectural techniques are best suited for scaling. You will also explore common pitfalls that arise when scaling a Node.js application and solutions to correct them.
Including analyses of success cases at the largest-scale companies, such as Netflix and Paypal, this book will get you started with scaling in no time at all.

What You'll Learn
• Determine what factors should trigger the need to scale
• Discover different architectural patterns that lend themselves to scaling
• Resolve problems that arise when scaling up a Node.js application
• Monitor a platform in order to understand when to start scaling

Who This Book Is For
The main audience for this book are Node.js developers with a mid-level understanding of the technology. Novice Node users will also benefit from the coverage of generic scaling-related topics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
The Need to Scale (Fernando Doglio)....Pages 1-18
Architectural Patterns (Fernando Doglio)....Pages 19-40
Ways to Scale (Fernando Doglio)....Pages 41-61
Challenges when Scaling (Fernando Doglio)....Pages 63-86
When to Scale? (Fernando Doglio)....Pages 87-109
Testing Your Application (Fernando Doglio)....Pages 111-141
Success Cases (Fernando Doglio)....Pages 143-156
Back Matter ....Pages 157-162

✦ Subjects

Amazon Web Services; Cloud Computing; JavaScript; Web Applications; Monitoring; Scalability; Clusters; Design Patterns; Node.js