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We have a large Ruby on Rails application (25 million monthly users), our management decided to rewrite in Node.js, am I crazy?

Please tell me if: Node.js will make our site faster! Node.js will consume fewer server resources, we can save money! Node.js will make us more productive! Node.js means we can share client and ...
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Idiomatic Javascript code architecture

I am writing a node.js application which I am breaking down into modules, the issue is I am not sure how to organise my code in an idiomatic Javascript way. Currently each of my modules exposes a set ...
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Writing a game engine using javascript

..by this I mean a logic handler for a chess game. Basically validating a move and checking if somebody has won. Now ignore the complexity of the game(if you can..) I'd like some sort of psuedo code ...
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How is the “evented-io” in node.js any different from the windows event model

I'm wondering how the "evented-io" in node.js any different from the windows async IO model? Is the callback from node.js executed on a thread, if not, where is it run? I don't mean to question the ...