Node.js & Couchbase - Full Stack JSONΒΆ
To make a game API, you need to make things fast, and you need to be able to scale. Most players won’t pay you anything, so you need to be resource-efficient too, so that you can still make money.
node.js has an event-driven programming model. Most node.js apps have little state, and can be scaled by adding application servers (with appropriate load balancing). You then need a data store that can be talked to by multiple application servers.
Couchbase recognises JSON as a datatype, allowing us to do more complex queries on JSON values using views and map/reduce.
Note
Much of this session was demonstrating code, so there aren’t a lot of notes.