On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Justin Collum wrote:
> Had a discussion with a friend about Nodejs the other day. We are both C#
> / MVC / ASP.NET devs, with about 10 years experience. He asked me why
> someone would choose Nodejs over IIS + MVC . My argument was 1)
> performance 2) non-blocki
*The real question is why wouldn't you want a piece of that?*
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As an enterprise monkey, I can see that most people don't - they want to
drag and drop some web services onto a form control and if it doesn't work,
find somebody who knows more about framework 'x' to spend time debugging it.
That m
In my experience performance is rarely a language/platform issue, and
rarely the deciding factor when choosing tools unless you're working on
high frequency trading systems (which you aren't because you wouldn't be
using ASP.NET).
We live in an economy of ideas, where you should spread the widest
Hi,
This is wrong
IIS might have a thread pool but has also had the ability to do
non-blocking IO for years
The default behaviour of ASP.NET and associated frameworks and the
developers using these tools has been to use all the synchronous
functionalities available and ignore this - but it is
I agree with Dan on this one.
The key benefits of node.js vs C#/IIS (I have been doing that since 2000):
* Pleasant development experience
* Access to the newest technologies and ides (just remember the drama
getting coffeescript, sass etc support in the VS environment)
* The module system (npm)
About performance, from my POV the differences are the concurrency
models each platform uses.
From one side, IIS has a thread pool, one thread per connection and
blocking IO.
At the other hand, node has one thread, and non blocking IO.
First approach problem is that memory consumption is incr
Had a discussion with a friend about Nodejs the other day. We are both C#
/ MVC / ASP.NET devs, with about 10 years experience. He asked me why
someone would choose Nodejs over IIS + MVC . My argument was 1)
performance 2) non-blocking IO. Keep in mind that I don't know a lot about
node, I'v
