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Derby and Meteor

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Here's a cached version: http://www.readability.com/articles/aobhl7io

So I was checking out the documentation and ...

http://i.imgur.com/EN3JA.png

... maybe i'll hold off for now.

Seems to be working again now.

Both derby and meteor don't support relational databases. Give me a realtime graph or relational database.

Have you checked out firebase? What do you think about Firebase+Angular?

Ooo, checking that out now. Parse alternative? http://www.quora.com/Firebase/How-does-Firebase-differ-from-...

No, the key difference is that it's real time.

It supplants Meteor's mongodb/minimongo syncing and its authentication system.

The only thing it lacks is a client layer. But for me that's a feature because in the past 2 years lots of reliable client side stacks have popped up, and both derby and meteor's custom client stack are disgusting.

I've been using Meteor but I'm thinking about abandoning it in favor of firebase/angular.

Edit: can you show us a cached link to your derby vs Meteor comparison please.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PKds6Tk...

KaoruAoiShiho, I'm really liking the look of this Firebase. Are you yourself set on Angular as the client? I feel inclined towards your opinions: a man who comes from Drupal, uses Meteor, with an eye on Angular, obviously knows what he's talking about ;)

I'm not necessarily set on Angular but I've used Backbone professionally for over a year but it's out of the question now. The other one is emberjs which I haven't played much with but all the literature on the internet that I can find supports angular over ember. I've also reviewed the ember docs and they make several decisions that I don't agree with.

I'm open to other client frameworks but if the Firebase+Angular combo works out it seems to me like the best foundation.

Dude, you should put that Meteor/Derby reply back up - that was good, and people are requesting it :) Sorry, can't find a "contact user" feature on HN

I feel the Need to also mention simperium. https://simperium.com/

Is there a cached version? I cannot access it.

I wonder which of Derby or Meteor was used to build that site which has been down all day. :-P

That would be Drupal. Nail on the coffin. I'll be switching to Jekyll + Github Pages sooner than later.

Just need to set up caching. No reason not to.

Edit: Static caching.

Edit2: Wow, well, :(. Glad I'm out of that world now though.

But I did :(

Edit: Even using Boost

Yeah - I had a previous post that was successful on HackerNews. Brought the site down, so I took it offline, enabled aggressive & static caching (was previously normal caching), as well as Boost. Imported database to prod, restarted - mostly fixed it, but had to boost my RAM to 1GB, then it survived the rest of the storm. With this happening again, at small 13 points for this post, I'm the same as you - glad to be out of that world.

I recommend looking into Cloudflare. Even the free plan can handle HN spikes.

Since you're into the node world already, check out docpad (https://github.com/bevry/docpad) instead of Jekyll. It doesn't have the same GitHub integration unfortunately, but it can still be hosted in a gh-pages branch.

You're the second to recommend docpad in lieu, I'll give it a whirl

Probably PHP heh.

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