Top 10 web applications powered by node.js

E-bay & Paypal: Moved their application from java to node.js.It’s become a great prototype platform and they chose to go on production. From their own testing they got the data that the node.js app was:

• Built almost twice as fast with fewer people.
• Written in 33% fewer lines of code.
• Constructed with 40% fewer files.

Wal-Mart: For mobile application Wal-Mart using nod.js.Node.js is rich and dynamic. Wal-Mart relies on services all over the world and do not control all of those services. Node allows Wal-Mart to front all these services and scale up very nicely.

Linkedin: After switching to node.js the Linkedin development team realized the advantages.

• Much better performance and lower memory overhead than other tested options, running up to 20x faster in some scenarios
• Programmers could leverage their JavaScript skills.
• Frontend and backend mobile teams could be combined into a single unit.
• Servers were cut to 3 from 30. Enough headroom remains to handle 10x current levels of resource utilization.
• Development could focus more on application development than firefighting.

Uber: The three core strengths that made Node.js a particularly good fit for Uber include:

• Node.js handles asynchronous I/O requests with a non-blocking, single-threaded event loop. It is particularly well-suited to distributed systems that make a lot of network requests.
• Node.js?—?and JavaScript in general?—?is excellent for quick iteration; programs can be inspected and errors can be addressed on the fly without requiring a restart, so developers can publish and deploy new code constantly.
• The active open source community continuously optimizes the technology; it gets better, all the time, practically on its own.

Netflix: Shifting its user interfaces to Node.js, Netflix has been able to streamline the development, cut the build times, and increase the level of customization of its UIs for each user. Node also improves the build times considerably.

Groupon: Groupon is a proud supporting member in node.js foundation. Groupon says node.js can scale fairly easily, and lots of developers are already familiar with JavaScript. Node.js able to serve much higher traffic. Pages now take less time to load for end users.

Wall street journal: The developer team at Dow Jones used Node.js in production for the first time in 2011 with "Wall Street Journal Social", an experimental Facebook reader application. Node met all their expectations, since application performance was great and active development took only a few weeks.

GoDaddy: They started prototyping node.js applications by 2013. To increase hosting capabilities - has revamped its entire backend to a Node.js-based infrastructure.

GoDaddy uses Node.js because they can handle the same load with only 10% of the hardware now.

Quizlet: The first line for this product is written in node.js. We decided to use Node.js because it was the best technology to enable our new multi-player learning game at our scale (6,00,000 visitors a day). Node is also perfect for the collaborative nature of Quizlet.

Shutterstock: World’s largest creative market place applications. 100 million pictures are available in this website. Artist post their pictures and the buyers can buy it in online.

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