Factual API Powered by Node.js and Redis
Continuing my search for non trivial node.js + NoSQL database application, here’s Factual stack for serving their API:
Factual architectural components:
- Varnish
- HAProxy
- Node.js
- Redis
- Solr
Why Node.js?
We chose Node because of three F’s: it’s fast, flexible, and familiar. In particular, the flexibility is what allowed us to use our Node layer to handle things like caching logic and load balancing, in addition to the aforementioned authentication and authorization. To make our Node layer scalable, we use multiple instances of Node tied together with Redis to keep things in sync.
Also worth mentioning is that data served through Factual API is always JSON, so having a server side JavaScript engine alsa takes reduces the need for converting data to different formats.
Original title and link: Factual API Powered by Node.js and Redis (©myNoSQL)
