The Chrome V8 engine helps monitor and evaluate garbage collection used in NodeJS. A simple command: node --trace_gc app.js By passing --trace_gc we can start to see Scavenge and Mark-sweep calls produced. For a more in depth understanding of the Node Garbage collector, and why you should care: Node …

It’s important to have as much information about the speed and health of our applications when they are running in the wild. In this blog post I’ll show you how to create a simple response time middleware that calculates the total time it takes for your application to process a request. …

In this video we start our 2 Cookie Authorization series by explaining how the approach works and how it can help to secure our applications that use tokens.