1. Using Node.js to improve
the performance of
Mobile apps and Mobile web
Tom Hughes-Croucher
Jetpacks for Dinosaurs, LLC
tom@jetpacksfordinosaurs.com
@sh1mmer

2. Scalable Server-Side Code with JavaScript
Who is Tom?
• Wrote W3C Standards
•
•
10+ years in the web industry
Worked on projects for: Tesco,
NASA, Walmart, MySpace, etc
Node Up and Running
• ~5 years at Yahoo! including .com
Tom Hughes-Croucher
• Node team at Joyent
@sh1mmer

3. • You probably shouldn't let Twitter name
your company
• Clients include
• Walmart
• MySpace
• Various Fortune 500 companies
• Multiple stealth startups
@sh1mmer

4. This is a talk about why
cell phones suck.
@sh1mmer

5. @sh1mmer

6. Radio waves suck
(at least compared to fibre or copper)
@sh1mmer

7. http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2009/10/a_engineers_gui/
@sh1mmer

8. Radio vs. buildings
@sh1mmer

9. @sh1mmer

10. @sh1mmer

11. @sh1mmer

12. Desktop Mobile
http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2012/04/02/mobile-versus-desktop-latency/
@sh1mmer

13. Ookla/speedtest.net
via http://www.slideshare.net/patrickmeenan/velocity-2012-taming-the-mobile-beast/22
@sh1mmer

14. Effect of latency on servers
@sh1mmer

15. Shielding Frontends
@sh1mmer

16. nginx
haproxy web services
frontends
ATS / data
varnish
@sh1mmer

17. var client = net.connect(80, domain, function() {
client.write("GET / HTTP/1.1rn");
t1 = (new Date()).getTime();
});
client.on('end', function() {
t2 = (new Date()).getTime();
output.write(domain + ' ' + ((t2-t1)/1000) + 'sn');
});
@sh1mmer

18. Sample of Alexa 5000
macupdate.com 442.3
uzai.com 403.658
wired.jp 238.848
facilisimo.com 205.159
mycokerewards.com 202.757
rbc.cn 192.354
moviesmobile.net 183.157
stop55.com 145.927
dir.bg 137.982
carrefour.fr 112.789
sifyitest.com 111.171
@sh1mmer

19. Event-driven Frontends
@sh1mmer

20. Client → Server Server → DB
Computation Computation
@sh1mmer

21. Not an event frontend
@sh1mmer

22. @sh1mmer

23. Server
@sh1mmer

24. Request
@sh1mmer

25. @sh1mmer

26. Event-driven frontend
@sh1mmer

27. Place-holder
@sh1mmer

28. @sh1mmer

29. Shared
Work
Resources
@sh1mmer

30. Memory operations
@sh1mmer

31. var x = "I am a string"
~1ns Running 1 instruction
2ns Data from l1 cpu cache
5ns Data from l2 cpu cache
80ns Data from ram
@sh1mmer

32. @sh1mmer

33. Mobile latency
@sh1mmer

34. @sh1mmer

35. 100 Blue Whales
Cat
@sh1mmer

36. "They went from running 15 servers with 15
instances (virtual servers) on each physical machine,
to just four instances that can handle double the
traffic."
http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/16/linkedin-node/
@sh1mmer

37. Not just simple applications
@sh1mmer

38. @sh1mmer

39. @sh1mmer

40. First page load vs. Client MVC
@sh1mmer

42. @sh1mmer

43. http://www.belshe.com/2010/05/24/more-bandwidth-doesnt-matter-much/
@sh1mmer

44. Bandwidth
Latency Device capability
@sh1mmer

45. Barfing data at 3G
@sh1mmer

46.  
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 


 

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 
 
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
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 
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 
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 
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  
 
  


 
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 
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  
 
  
 
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
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 
 
 
 
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 
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 
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  
 
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 
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 
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
 

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
 
  

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47. @sh1mmer

48. Clientside templating
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49. @sh1mmer

50. Node.js allows you to tune
rendering between client and
server based on the network.
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51. HTML JSON
More bandwidth Less bandwidth
Less client processing More client processing
Battery friendly Cheaper for you bandwidth/server
Cheaper for them bandwidth
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52. Summary
• Node.js allows you to:
• Manage resources with unreliable mobile data connections
• Choose where to apply rendering
• Pick the right rendering solution for the right scenario
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53. Questions
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