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Is Node.js better? JSConf 2012 Brian Ford @brixen
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oneʼs excess is anotherʼs moderation
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Rubinius RubySpec
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Why do I care about Node.js?
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Organizations tend to perpetuate the problem they were created to solve
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10 kinds of people: 01. fear change 10. create change
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sub·ver·sive /səbˈvərsiv/ noun: You
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contrast is conflict
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MINASWAN
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controversy is entertaining
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shootout fight throw down
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advocacy is criticism criticism is advocacy
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Fanboi Troll
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We suck at conflict
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How can we improve?
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benchmarks
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science
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Your Creative Power Alex Osborn 1948
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alone vs group
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brainstormers debaters free organization
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Broadway Musicals and the Q factor
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Groupthink: The Brainstorming Myth Jonah Lehrer New Yorker 30 Jan 2012
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Thinking Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman Farrar, Straus and Giroux © 2011
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bacon
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23 x 47
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Programming is a behavioral science
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Research Methods: the basics Nicholas Walliman Routledge © 2011
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Validity
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meta-physics nature of the universe
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epistemology theory of knowledge
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people are selfish lazy easily bored
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scarcity
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Concurrency
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every possible interleaving of program instructions
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P is a program x is a routine P runs x x waits P waits
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concurrency: time state transitions
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suspend / resume cooperative multitasking
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time slice pre-emptive multitasking
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justifications for using Node.js
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J(X) > J(Y) Xʼ ≡ X Yʼ ≡ Y J(Xʼ) > J(Yʼ)
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same language on client and server
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there are many Javascript programmers
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Node.js is more fun
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Controversy
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Node.js rejects reality
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entire ecosystem of tools and libraries must be built
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Node.js will reproduce last 15 years of Ruby mistakes
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Passenger Cluster
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process concurrency is doomed
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symmetric errors chain of evidence
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Celluloid https://github.com/celluloid
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Thank you!