Velocity is an important metric for many software professionals. In a recent Forrester survey, 38 percent of the respondents reported that they use the number of user story points completed per sprint as a measure of agile effectiveness. Market forces can be brutal, and when competition is fierce, the innovators who move at speed [...]
If you spend much time searching the web to figure out whether Java or Node is faster, you will find plenty of people claiming that Node is faster, and a slew of others claiming the exact opposite. Simply put, Java’s performance is amazing. Java can even outperform C++ because of the genius of its [...]
If your development background is anything like mine, then you probably think writing server side code in JavaScript is a terrible idea. JavaScript likely seems like an immature language that lacks basic object oriented capabilities, and you may have even gotten burned by horribly written JavaScript front-ends that were insufferable to maintain. If you are [...]
