Interesting Snippets from 2013-06-29

• Chance.js: Utility library to generate anything random for JavaScript

  Chance is a minimalist generator of random [1] strings, numbers, etc. to help reduce some monotony particularly while writing automated tests.

• louischatriot/nedb · GitHub

  Embedded persistent database for Node.js, written in Javascript, with no dependency (except npm modules of course). You can think of it as a SQLite for Node.js projects, which can be used with a simple require statement. The API is a subset of MongoDB's. You can use it as a persistent or an in-memory only datastore.

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Interesting Snippets from 2013-06-12

• etsy/statsd · GitHub

  A network daemon that runs on the Node.js platform and listens for statistics, like counters and timers, sent over UDP and sends aggregates to one or more pluggable backend services (e.g., Graphite). We (Etsy) blogged about how it works and why we created it.

• Introducing Kale « Code as Craft

  In the world of Ops, monitoring is a tough problem. It gets harder when you have lots and lots of critical moving parts, each requiring constant monitoring. At Etsy, we’ve got a bunch of tools that we use to help us monitor our systems. You might be familiar with some of them: Nagios, StatsD, Graphite, and Ganglia. Today, we’d like to introduce you to a new tool that we’ve been working on for the past few months.

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Interesting Snippets from 2013-06-09

• React | A JavaScript library for building user interfaces

  React uses a declarative paradigm that makes it easier to reason about your application.

• JavaScript in your Postgres

  The same JavaScript engine that powers the web today is now available in your database. This is one more step in evolving a data platform to meet all of your data needs. With a key/value store inside Postgres you gained agility in working with your schema. This agility was further improved with the JSON data type in Postgres 9.2. With geospatial support you removed the need for relying on additional tools for building location based apps. And today we’re continuing to expand, going beyond SQL bringing the full power of the V8 JavaScript engine to your Heroku Postgres database.

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Interesting Snippets from 2013-06-03

• Cytoscape.js

  A JavaScript graph library for analysis and visualisation (compatible with Node.js, jQuery 1.4+, and plain JavaScript)

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