Re: [nodejs] Java Houses Adopting Node.js

2014-07-25 Thread George Snelling
+1 Mobile apps yearn to pass JSON back and forth to a resty server that fronts your core business engine. Node is a pretty good tool for building a JSON-serving glue teir between your core engine and your mobile clients. Many java and c++ devs wrinkle their noses at javascript. After trying

Re: [nodejs] Java Houses Adopting Node.js

2014-07-24 Thread Sam Roberts
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 3:09 AM, rtweed wrote: > In large corporates such as Walmart, the maxim "if it ain't broke, don't fix > it" tends to reign supreme, so I'd be interested to hear about what was > broke for them to be bothered to look elsewhere beyond Java. Mobile. Existing code works well

Re: [nodejs] Java Houses Adopting Node.js

2014-07-23 Thread rtweed
Something I don't remember having seen anywhere is some understanding of why these Java migratees (if that's a word!) decided to look elsewhere in the first place - ie what were the pain points that the business saw in their Java infrastructure that warranted an examination of how and where Nod

Re: [nodejs] Java Houses Adopting Node.js

2014-07-14 Thread Issac Roth
Sorry for the late reply here Adam. We (StrongLoop) are working with four of the very largest ecommerce companies, all big Java shops, who are converting pieces of their systems over to node.js. Plus many smaller ecommerce companies. There are also a variety of banks with heavy Java history d

Re: [nodejs] Java Houses Adopting Node.js

2014-06-26 Thread Trygve Lie
PayPal springs to mind: https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2013/11/22/node-js-at-paypal/ Txx On to., 2014-06-26 at 01:35 -0700, Adam Davies wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anybody know of case studies or have direct experience of a > ecommerce companies which have been using Java for many years > conv

Re: [nodejs] Java Houses Adopting Node.js

2014-06-26 Thread Brett Ritter
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Adam Davies wrote: > Does anybody know of case studies or have direct experience of a ecommerce companies which have been using Java for many years converting over to node.js? I know Walmart moved their services layer from Java (Wicket) to Node, and they seem pret

Re: [nodejs] Java Houses Adopting Node.js

2014-06-26 Thread Angel Java Lopez
Maybe, a case study is PayPal https://www.paypal-engineering.com/2013/11/22/node-js-at-paypal/ They created Kraken http://krakenjs.com/ more info http://www.infoworld.com/t/javascript/paypal-and-netflix-cozy-nodejs-237593 According to PayPal speaker, at JsConf Montevideo 2014, some times, the b

[nodejs] Java Houses Adopting Node.js

2014-06-26 Thread Adam Davies
Hi All, Does anybody know of case studies or have direct experience of a ecommerce companies which have been using Java for many years converting over to node.js? The reason why I ask is because we at Screwfix.com are going through a process of looking at new technologies and defineing our str