Currently on my mind

What an exciting year we have in front of us. My list of top trends of 2014 is based on the buzz across industries where IT is business critical. It’s based on what we, Netlight, are involved within. Netlight is a Genuine Consulting firm, which means we are totally independent, we work and create together for real (to make sure the gathered competence and experience of all consultants are utilized) and we totally focus our work based on the true need of our clients. What we do on a daily basis is totally ruled by the challenges and opportunities of the companies we’re helping. So what we work on is really what is hot currently - and if not we’re doing something wrong. ·          Streaming and VOD (Video On Demand, Music On Demand, Radio On Demand…) ·          Cloud hosting ·          O rganisations and teams – increased productivity ·    ...

Hurray for less barrier btw front/backend, consistently asynchronous and the power of dynamic run-time-compilation. In all, a lot of freedom in the JS lack of typing and dynamic run-time-compilation, but with great freedom comes great responsibility. And if the responsibility isn’t taken due to whatever reason (lack of coding practices, lack of competence or experience…) the journey will not be that nice eventually. So, to successfully use Node.js for your enterprise system, you really need to design and maintain your code base very carefully. I would say this is way harder and more important than working in any of the more common and forgiving back-end environments like .net/c# or jvm/java. Questions Is Node.js ready to conquer the world of large scale enterprise systems? Although Node.js doesn’t provide as many out-of-the-box component as for example java, and hasn’t been “hammered” as much, the Node community is very active and productive. And Node.js is already successfully ...