node.js ry@tinyclouds.org November 8, 2009 node.js in brief: I Server-side Javascript I Built on Google’s V8 I Evented, non-blocking I/O. Similar to EventMachine or Twisted. I CommonJS module system. I 8000 lines of C/C++, 2000 lines of Javascript, 14 contributors. I/O needs to be done differently. Many web applications have code like this: var result = db.query("select * from T"); // use result W