How a teen-founded company won the Node Jam

January 28, 2012 11:47 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Five years ago, a fifteen-year-old student built a website; this week, the same website won the Node Jam at Node Summit, the conference focusing on all things Node.js.

Quizlet is a site you might never have heard of unless you …

Node at scale: What Google, Mozilla, & Yahoo are doing with Node.js

January 24, 2012 2:48 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Editor's Pick

When the scale of your application is “everyone on the Internet,” you have to think a bit differently about adopting new technologies.

At the Node Summit today, a bevy of “big boy” company executives gathered to chat about Node.js, the …

Why Walmart is using Node.js

January 24, 2012 12:04 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Node.js has been the delight of San Francisco hackers for the past couple years now, but startups and indie developers aren’t the only ones using JavaScript on the server side.

At Node Summit today, Walmart executives talk about why the …