{"id":38172,"date":"2019-01-18T09:40:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T08:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=38172"},"modified":"2019-02-26T17:03:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T16:03:29","slug":"frenchtechfriday-go-to-warp-speed-with-starnode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2019\/01\/frenchtechfriday-go-to-warp-speed-with-starnode\/","title":{"rendered":"#FrenchTechFriday : go to warp speed with Starnode"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today’s French Tech Friday startup does a very simple thing: it can run your asynchronous javascript functions in parallel<\/span>.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ok, I might have hit you a bit hard there… How about we start at the beginning and discover all about StarNode<\/a>.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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What on earth is Node.Js?<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Our story starts with Node.Js and we need to know a bit about it to understand the feat pulled by Starnode.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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All we need to know right now is that it relates to JavaScript, a language used by internet browsers to allow actions on a website<\/span><\/span>. Sorry tech gurus, I’m <\/span>deliberately<\/span><\/span> keeping it simple and incomplete for readability’s sake.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This JavaScript language is within your own computer and does its work there.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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On the other hand<\/span><\/span>, you can also have a heavy load of work done elsewhere, on the server. There it has a different name. It’s called Node.Js. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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To make it clearer, let’s see what type of websites currently rely on Node.Js to answer customers’ queries. There’s Paypal, Uber, LinkedIn, Netflix and Mozilla (and many others). <\/span>All of them need to process <\/span><\/span>numerous<\/span><\/span> simultaneous requests and Node.Js is perfect for this purpose as well as being easy to scale up if demand rises<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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But it is not ideal and has one drawback that makes some developers drop the idea altogether. It can only use one processor at a time. <\/span>Even with multi-core servers, you’ll only be as fast as the one top processor and miss out on the full strength of the set-up.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
It’s a bit like have a fast-food joint with many checkouts but only one works because there’s only one employee<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In comes Starnode<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Well done for keeping up with me all the way to this part. <\/span>If you’ve understood the Node.Js limitations, you will <\/span><\/span>easily<\/span><\/span> grasp the revolution Starnode is launching<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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With Starnode, you’re opening all the checkouts. Meaning, you can use all the processors at your disposal, at the same time. Can you imagine the amount of burgers<\/span> requests you could handle?!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This could <\/span>be done<\/span><\/span> before but required heavy rewriting of all the code involved. It required extensive knowledge and a lot of time.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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With Starnode, a single word needs to <\/span>be added<\/span><\/span> at the beginning of the line of code. Then, provided Starnode is on the server, the full power of the hardware <\/span>is unleashed<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Node.Js can now be used for demanding tasks such as Big Data analysis, language processing, artificial intelligence, 3D…<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Young startup, experienced scientists<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Scale Dynamics, the Starnode startup, came to be in March 2018. The actual product was only released a month ago. Founder Gilbert Cabillic is all but a newbie. He had founded Flexycore in 2008 to <\/span>accelerate<\/span><\/span> (again!) the Android applications so that older phones could run new apps. Google was so impressed, they acquired the startup<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This time, he founded Scale Dynamics with Jean-Philippe Lesot, and recruited fellow PhDs to take on the challenge<\/span><\/span>. No junior profiles there.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The team of ten won’t rest as, following a beta period, the product is ready to meet its first clients starting with big companies with great processing needs<\/span><\/span>. So far, they’ve succeeded in accelerating functions up to almost six times.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Example for image batch processing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The current code modifications to run Starnode are insignificant but Gilbert wants to go a step further and offer a solution with no code modification<\/span><\/span>. At all. That and more speed so 2019 will be busy indeed.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Currently settled in Brittany, France, the team will open offices in the US in 2019. <\/span>There is <\/span><\/span>really<\/span><\/span> no frontiers in the use of the Node.Js and that’s a good thing for Star Trek buff Gilbert as it seems he hasn’t reached the final frontier yet<\/span><\/span>. Beam us up Starnode! Let’s get a speeding ticket!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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