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Nearform
Company blog · nearform.com/blogprogrammingai
Nearform is the company blog at nearform.com, writing about programming and ai. Since 2013, 43 different Hacker News readers have linked it 58 times, most often “Wormholes in JavaScript”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link nearForm's blog for its Node.js writing, such as posts on the Pino logger, readable-stream v3 and memory-leak debugging. Many other mentions are hiring posts or links to its open-source projects.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Nearform’s all-senior engineers take enterprise AI from prototype to production: agentic systems, platforms and products, delivered globally since 2011.
Most-linked posts?
- Wormholes in JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-09-03
- Optimise Node.js performance by avoiding broken promises2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-05
- Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-20
What Hacker News says?
Micromonitor reaping huge rewards as nearForm moves all developers to four inch screens! Announcement: http://www.nearform.com/nodecrunch/micromonitor-reaping-huge...
Comment linking /nodecrunch/micromonitor-reaping-huge-rewards-nearform-moves-developers-four-inch-screens/
on “List of April Fools' Day Announcements”Submitted Ireland donates contact tracing app to Linux Foundation as a story · 312 points
HN discussionNearForm | REMOTE | https://www.nearform.com/ | multiple positions | Full-Time, Contractor NearForm is a fast-growing consultancy company currently operating on multiple continents. We work with all kinds of companies, from startups to enterprises, to help them build and scale software and infrastructure. We work primarily with JavaScript and Node.js and operate on all leading cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP) NearFor…
Comment linking /jobs/4621256003
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)”Submitted How PayPal is being revolutionized by Node.js and Lean UX as a story · 121 points
HN discussionNearForm ( http://www.nearform.com)| EU or US | Full time or Contract |Senior Software Engineers & DevOps Engineers | REMOTE We’re a global software consultancy, enabling our clients to deliver real and lasting business impact through design and technology. We have deep roots in the open source community and have several open source tools and projects you may have used or heard of. https://www.nearform.com/open-sour…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)”Submitted Why Node.js is becoming the go-to technology as a story · 108 points
HN discussionit used to be the case that graphql requests are in POST, but not anymore: https://nearform.com/open-source/urql/docs/api/core/#:~:text... example for urql on top of http level caching, you can do any type of caching (redis / fs / etc) just like a regular rest but at a granular level, for ex: user {comments(threadId: abc, page: 1, limit: 20) { body, postedAt} is requested and then cached, another request can come in…
Comment linking /open-source/urql/docs/api/core/
on “JSX over the Wire”Submitted Why Node.js is becoming the go-to technology in the Enterprise as a story · 44 points
HN discussionURQL has normalized caching and it works great! You opt into it by adopting their graphcache exchange. https://nearform.com/open-source/urql/docs/graphcache/ It also works great with fragments. And its exchange system is super powerful and flexible. I’ve even seen an offline-first sync engine built as a custom URQL exchange in a react native app. The frontend could be written as if the app always is online but it wo…
Comment linking /open-source/urql/docs/graphcache/
on “GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over”Submitted How Node.js has revolutionised the Mail Online (Worlds No.1 Online Newspaper) as a story · 34 points
HN discussionPls check https://www.nearform.com/blog/pino-the-fastest-node-js-logge...
Comment linking /blog/pino-the-fastest-node-js-logger-for-production/
on “Application-Level Logging Best Practices”Submitted Why Node is becoming the go-to technology in Enterprise as a story · 32 points
HN discussionI live in Ireland and our contact tracing app (using Google+Apple tech) seems to be doing well. There was about 1 million install 1-2 days after it launched, currently standing at 1.4 million installs (population is 4.9 million), along with some positive contacts reported: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53525712 It was also donated to open source. https://www.nearform.com/blog/ireland-donates-contact-tracin...…
Comment linking /blog/ireland-donates-contact-tracing-app-to-linux-foundation/
on “Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere”Submitted Bangle.js is the first hackable OSS JavaScript and TensorFlow-driven smartwatch as a story · 17 points
HN discussionAt nearForm we're also very interested in this, which is why we've been working on nscale - our own deployment solution. v0.16 was released yesterday featuring autoscaling support. "nscale is an open toolkit supporting configuration, build and deployment of connected container sets. nscale is ideally used to support the development and operation of microservice based systems." https://github.com/nearform/nscale Here…
Comment linking /nodecrunch/deployment-how-to-do-it-fast-safely-and-reliably/
on “Immutable Infrastructure is the future”Submitted Introducing Clinic Bubbleprof, a unique way to visualise Node.js code as a story · 14 points
HN discussionReadable-streams v3 ( https://www.nearform.com/blog/welcome-readable-stream-3/ ) allows you to use async iterators to process streams (`for...await...of` syntax). This is actually in Node.js current, check out stream docs: https://nodejs.org/api/stream.html#stream_readable_symbol_as...
Comment linking /blog/welcome-readable-stream-3/
on “JavaScript iterator patterns”Submitted The Cost of Logging in 2022 as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThis post seems to be from about 7 months ago. Do the 'turbofan' changes of v8/v9 make any difference to the benchmarks? https://www.nearform.com/blog/node-js-is-getting-a-new-v8-wi...
Comment linking /blog/node-js-is-getting-a-new-v8-with-turbofan/
on “Server-Side I/O Performance: Node vs. PHP vs. Java vs. Go”Submitted Why Node.js is becoming the go-to technology in the enterprise as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWow, great work so far. This is really interesting. My guess is that they were moving content out of some proprietary early-2000s CMS around 2015. Instead of carefully parsing the storage format and extracting the text, they dumped it and the output was peppered with garbage. To sanitize the output, they simply elided certain character sequences. Further speculation, 'xb' and 'xe' (for 'beginning' and 'end') were co…
Comment linking /blog/case-study/accelerating-transformation-at-a-global-media-company/
on “The 15-Year Layover (2003)”Submitted Terminal velocity: the shell tools that make Claude Code fly as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOther links relating to debugging memory related issues in NodeJS which I have bookmarked (in no particular order): * http://www.willvillanueva.com/the-node-js-profiling-guide-th... * https://github.com/felixge/node-memory-leak-tutorial * https://strongloop.com/strongblog/node-js-performance-tip-of... * https://github.com/bnoordhuis/node-heapdump * http://www.nearform.com/nodecrunch/self-detect-memory-leak-n...
Comment linking /nodecrunch/self-detect-memory-leak-node/
on “Debugging Node.js memory leaks”Submitted Optimise Node.js performance by avoiding broken promises as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>We're dedicated to Node.js nearForm was founded in 2011 by Richard Rodger and Cian Ó Maidín with the vision to help Node.js to become a mainstream technology. http://www.nearform.com/about-us Explains the article. And founding a company to promote a development stack? I don't get it.
Comment linking /about-us
on “Why Node is becoming the go-to technology in Enterprise”Submitted The Myth About Code Comments (2024) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- jn · 2015-03-31
nearForm[1] sell node.js consulting and software to enterprises like Condé Nast, Universal, Intel and Qualcomm. They organize NodeConf Europe[2]. They're bootstrapped with 100% year on year growth so far and projecting 200% growth this year (according to the article). One of the interesting things here is that they're Irish, but instead of setting up in Dublin (home to the EU headquarters of Google, Facebook, Micros…
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on “Cloud computing company NearForm to create 100 jobs” Submitted Adding a Permission System to Node.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimise Node.js performance by avoiding broken promises as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speeding Up React SSR: Announcing ESX (2019) as a story · 2 points
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