📡 TRANSMISSION #20: Help pick topics

[hwillson]

Node 6 brings many performance improvements to the table, but the biggest advantage to getting to Node 6 sooner than later is that Node 4 just entered maintenance only mode. It’s only getting bug fixes from here on out.

[Volodymyr]

Build system used in Meteor (does it have a name), its advantages and disadvantages, and plans to replace it with something like Webpack.

[msavin]

I just launched Meteor Candy, an all new admin package. I think it’s something that Meteor start-ups will need, and the response to it has been very enthusiastic. Your support on the show would be highly appreciated, so that I can keep bringing new things to the Meteor ecosystem

Meteor Candy, the 5-Minute Admin Panel for Your Meteor.js App

[vikr00001]

Also: benefits of Meteor build system in comparison to Webpack.

[vikr00001]

@msavin This looks really cool. A huge time-saver for developers.

[pauldowman]

Great topics.

But FYI, we had a scheduling problem, and I’m on vacation next week so unfortunately we had to postpone it… I’m sure we’ll have even more to talk about by then.

[vikr00001]

Scaling Meteor, with info from this thread:

@markoshust

I’m one of those guys that doesn’t understand the “scaling issues” of Meteor. AFAIK, the reactive: false property within publications was added years ago, and if you still have issues with large publications, it’s very easy to throw the db call into a Meteor method that doesn’t have to deal with the pub/sub scaling issues. Essentially, this transforms the db call to the backend so it works just like any server-side language, but pipes the response over DDP instead of REST. This has much faster responses than the request->response flow of any other server side language.

@XTA

One thing we do is to transform sub documents, which don’t need to be reactive, straight into the published doc. So we don’t need any method calls or an additional publish to connect relational data. I’m also wondering about scaring scaling issues. We’re running a Meteor app with ~1.5k concurrent users on a single VPS (+ one for the database) and also using individual subscriptions for each visitor. So only performance issues we had so far were missing/wrong indexes in the database.

[pauldowman]

It’s up! https://youtu.be/E5tmLcvr6ok

The audio-only podcast version will soon up up also at: https://transmission.simplecast.fm/

Thanks @sashko for doing this!