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Real-Time Apps on Cloud Foundry Using Node.js and Redis

01.27.2013
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Over at the Cloud Foundry blog, Raja Rao has published a detailed tutorial about scaling real-time apps on Cloud Foundry.  Here's a little of the introduction:

Common applications being built on Node.js like social networking and chat require real-time scaling capabilities across multiple instances. Developers need to deal with sticky sessions, scale-up, scale-down, instance crash/restart, and more. Cloud Foundry PaaS provides a ready platform to achieve this quickly.

The following blog post will walk you through deploying and managing real-time applications on Cloud Foundry using common Node.js examples and Redis key-value store capabilities.

Scaling Real-time Apps on Cloud Foundry Using Node.js and Redis

Reference: http://blog.cloudfoundry.com/author/raja/