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:-D I actually set an alarm this afternoon to submit v0.8.0 as soon as it comes out, if you can possibly believe it (I still can't believe I've done such a low,

:-D I actually set an alarm this afternoon to submit v0.8.0 as soon as it comes out, if you can possibly believe it (I still can't believe I've done such a low, degenerate thing and am a little ashamed of myself)! But I'm incredibly happy about this release, specially about the 'new' cluster API[1] that has made my life a whole lot easier! So apologies for being a karma whore, but I was so glad I couldn't resist, if you know what I mean... [1]: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.8.0/api/cluster.html http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.8.0/api/cluster.html

IsaacSchlueter 14y ago
I can't believe you managed to get this submitted to HN before I did. That's what I get for posting it to twitter before coming here ;D Since I knew the URL, I could have totally cheated and done it before even uploading the blog post.
- dubcanada 14y ago
  You got to give him props, he set an alarm to post it lol.
  - pooriaazimi 14y ago
    Isaac said it would be out in 15:00 UTC, and it was out in 15:00 UTC... I was studying for my exam, my alarm went off and bam! There's the blog post - It was amazing.
- oscardelben 14y ago
  Was there a prize for the first person that posted this?
  - aaronblohowiak 14y ago
    what izs has called "Internet Points"
    - technomancy 14y ago
      Welcome to HN, the show where everything is made up and the points don't matter.
  - pooriaazimi 14y ago
    Of course not. Just a few seconds of joy, that our favorite platform has reached another milestone... I posted the above comment to say I was really happy and all (and I wasn't trying to be an ass) - I wish people would stop upvoting that stupid, non-constructive comment (for some reason, it has 10 upvotes).
  - chc 14y ago
    You're probably missing some necessary context here: Isaac is the maintainer of Node.js. So the funny thing is that pooriaazimi was so excited to post this to Hacker News that he beat the project's own maintainer to the punch.
- babuskov 14y ago
  Now, quickly release 0.8.1 and make sure you beat everyone ;) Joke aside, thanks for the great new release. I'm running 0.6 in production sometimes with 3000+ connected users and will soon need to scale. Being able to do so just by upgrading to 0.8 will make my life easier... until many more users come, of course.
quarterto 14y ago
Wrt the Cluster module, the autoFork method is mentioned a couple of times in the code examples, but isn't documented. Does it actually exist?
- IsaacSchlueter 14y ago
  Yeah, that looks like a bug in the docs. It does not actually exist. https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/3532 https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/3532
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mcantelon 14y ago
Anyone have a TLDR on what new functionality has been added to cluster? I skimmed the API and the changes didn't jump out.
- ya3r 14y ago
  Read the blog post. It has a TLDR
- pooriaazimi 14y ago
  If you mean changes between 0.7.15+ and 0.8.0, nothing really significant. But if you mean changes between 0.6.x and 0.8.0, well, almost everything has changed! Sorry for the non-answer... But take a look at https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/API-changes-between-v0.6-and-v0.8 https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/API-changes-between-v0.6... and https://groups.google.com/d/forum/nodejs-dev https://groups.google.com/d/forum/nodejs-dev for change log (in 0.7 branch).
  - mcantelon 14y ago
    Ah, thanks!

IsaacSchlueter 14y ago

I can't believe you managed to get this submitted to HN before I did. That's what I get for posting it to twitter before coming here ;D Since I knew the URL, I could have totally cheated and done it before even uploading the blog post.

dubcanada 14y ago
You got to give him props, he set an alarm to post it lol.
- pooriaazimi 14y ago
  Isaac said it would be out in 15:00 UTC, and it was out in 15:00 UTC... I was studying for my exam, my alarm went off and bam! There's the blog post - It was amazing.
oscardelben 14y ago
Was there a prize for the first person that posted this?
- aaronblohowiak 14y ago
  what izs has called "Internet Points"
  - technomancy 14y ago
    Welcome to HN, the show where everything is made up and the points don't matter.
- pooriaazimi 14y ago
  Of course not. Just a few seconds of joy, that our favorite platform has reached another milestone... I posted the above comment to say I was really happy and all (and I wasn't trying to be an ass) - I wish people would stop upvoting that stupid, non-constructive comment (for some reason, it has 10 upvotes).
- chc 14y ago
  You're probably missing some necessary context here: Isaac is the maintainer of Node.js. So the funny thing is that pooriaazimi was so excited to post this to Hacker News that he beat the project's own maintainer to the punch.
babuskov 14y ago
Now, quickly release 0.8.1 and make sure you beat everyone ;) Joke aside, thanks for the great new release. I'm running 0.6 in production sometimes with 3000+ connected users and will soon need to scale. Being able to do so just by upgrading to 0.8 will make my life easier... until many more users come, of course.

quarterto 14y ago

Wrt the Cluster module, the autoFork method is mentioned a couple of times in the code examples, but isn't documented. Does it actually exist?

IsaacSchlueter 14y ago
Yeah, that looks like a bug in the docs. It does not actually exist. https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/3532 https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/3532

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mcantelon 14y ago

Anyone have a TLDR on what new functionality has been added to cluster? I skimmed the API and the changes didn't jump out.

ya3r 14y ago
Read the blog post. It has a TLDR
pooriaazimi 14y ago
If you mean changes between 0.7.15+ and 0.8.0, nothing really significant. But if you mean changes between 0.6.x and 0.8.0, well, almost everything has changed! Sorry for the non-answer... But take a look at https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/API-changes-between-v0.6-and-v0.8 https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/API-changes-between-v0.6... and https://groups.google.com/d/forum/nodejs-dev https://groups.google.com/d/forum/nodejs-dev for change log (in 0.7 branch).
- mcantelon 14y ago
  Ah, thanks!