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'Engine Yard' now offers Node.js on its PaaS platform, alongside 'Ruby on Rails' & PHP - #PaaS

Paving the way for more server-side use of JavaScript, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider Engine Yard has added the Node.js library to its collection of hosted web application tools. The service, which Engine Yard first offered as a preview last November, will join Engine Yard's two other web application-friendly offerings, Ruby on Rails and PHP. Running Node.js as a service, instead of in-house, eliminates many headaches for the developer, said Mark Gaydos, Engine Yard senior vice president of worldwide marketing. No server hardware needs to be procured, nor does the developer need to worry about maintaining Node.js itself, or the other software Node.js depends upon to run. Related Articles on Techworld Engine Yard to add Node.js support with Labs services Built on Google's V8 JavaScript engine, Node.js is a library of JavaScript functions that work under an event-driv...

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