Node.js Production Checklist

Previously we talked about Node.js best practices then best practices again and how to run Node.js in production. In this post I'd like to give you a general checklist what you should do before going to production with Node.js. Most of these points are not just applying to Node.js, but every production systems.

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Google Maps ganha informação de trânsito melhorada em Portugal

Saber o estado do trânsito é factor fundamental para planear as rotas mais eficientes, e o Google passa a dar-nos dados melhorados para quem percorre as estradas de várias cidades portuguesas. Há muito que o Google Maps continha informação sobre o trânsito nas estradas nacionais, mas eram dados que apenas se aplicavam às vias principais.

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Getting an A+ on the SSL Labs test in node.js

The SSL Labs test examines a wide variety of aspects of HTTP servers, including simulating the handshakes where browsers and servers agree on crypto. It's a good starting point for checking your SSL configuration.

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Top 10 Common Node.js Developer Mistakes

Since the moment Node.js was unveiled to the world, it has seen a fair share of both praise and criticism. The debate still continues, and may not end anytime soon. What we often overlook in these debates is that every programming language and platform is criticized based on certain issues, which are created by how we use the platform. Regardless of how difficult Node.js makes writing safe code, and how easy it makes writing highly concurrent code, the platform has been around for quite a while and has been used to build a huge number of robust and sophisticated web services.

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Amazon Cloud Drive now offers unlimited storage for photos and files

Amazon is today adding a couple of new storage tiers for its Cloud Drive customers with a heck of a lot of files and photos. The Unlimited Photos Plan is… what it sounds like. You can upload an ‘infinite’ amount of photos for $11.99 per year. For files, it includes 5GB of storage.

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How To Create an Node.js App Using Sails.js on an Ubuntu VPS

The lines that the user needs to enter or customize will be in red in this tutorial! The rest should mostly be copy-and-pastable. Sails.js makes it easy to build custom, enterprise-grade Node.js apps. It is designed to mimic the MVC pattern of frameworks like Ruby on Rails, but with support for the requirements of modern apps: data-driven APIs with scalable, service-oriented architecture.

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bendc/frontend-guidelines

HTML5 provides us with lots of semantic elements aimed to describe precisely the content. Make sure you benefit from its rich vocabulary. Make sure you understand the semantic of the elements you're using. It's worse to use a semantic element in a wrong way than staying neutral.

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