Measure and find bottlenecks before they affect your users 1/2

Inspired by a few talks during the last 33rd Degree conference I decided to implement, in one of the applications I develop, metrics which allow developers or operation team monitor running application and possibly detect potential problems early on. After a quick investigation I decided to use the Metrics framework. What I expected was exposing at least some statistics … Read more

Manage Node.js dependencies properly

Author of every piece of software bigger than simple “Hello World” sooner or later will face problem with dependency management. In this post I would like to consider that problem and possible solutions in regard to Node.js applications. In Node.js world managing dependencies with npm is exceptionally simple, however there are some caveats which everyone … Read more