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Show HN: Losant Kiln – The easiest way to build APIs for IoT applications losant.com

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Bring your software errors into the real-world with IoT rollbar.com

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Show HN: Losant Go – Mobile App to Turn a Phone into an IoT Button losant.com

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Comment · 10 years ago

Love to help out and get more kits for schools. Think youngsters should definitely be playing with hardware.

Comment · 10 years ago

We're working with several early companies in the industrial space, especially logistics and manufacturing.

Comment · 10 years ago

Absolutely. https://docs.getstructure.io/getting-started/walkthrough/ There are also specific hardware guides as well.

Comment · 10 years ago

Thanks, we're excited to show it to the world.

Npm passes 100,000 modules blog.modulus.io

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Comment · 13 years ago

Well Modulus, http://modulus.io, has a number of things that set us apart. One is that we're not really into to tiers. Custom SSL, domains, etc... are part of the normal package. We support WebSockets, there are a couple others that do but most don't. The really interesting piece is that we provide our customers with a great set of statistics about your running application (number of requests, response times, cpu, memory and more). We also have MongoDB hosting in house which lets you spin up a database for your application quickly.

Comment · 13 years ago

The main application runs in a single thread and then I/O activities happen in an event loop running with a small thread pool.

Once one of those activities completes the event loop will give a signal to the main thread of the Node app and the callback will be executed.

Not sure if that helped or just confused everyone.

Comment · 13 years ago

I'd love to chat about the platform. I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for pimping it. I just don's to turn this comment area into a discussion of the platform. Hit us up on twitter @OnModulus or send an email to [email protected].

An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Node.js blog.modulus.io

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Comment · 13 years ago

Yeah great point.

Comment · 13 years ago

People use what they're used to so most of the time that falls back to Heroku. I get that, I really do. Just want to make sure people know it's not the only option.

Comment · 13 years ago

Yes we're mostly on AWS. We actually use AWS for most of the infrastructure and then Azure for hold stats we push. This will be added to FAQ, ASAP. I agree that is does matter.

GridFS stores chucks as different documents so this still should be fine for our pricing scheme. Each chunk is saved in 256K document.

Thanks for the comment.