How we architected Cloud9 IDE for scale on

NodeJS

Rik Arends, CTO and Co-founderCloud9 IDE Inc

YaC, Moscow, September 19 2011

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Today

• What is what

• Cloud9 IDE Demo

• Architecture of Cloud9 on Node.JS

• Future

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What is Cloud9 IDE?

• Office : Google docs -> Eclipse : Cloud9

• The easiest way to create Node.JS apps

• Office in Ams and SF

• Recently funded by Accel / Atlassian $5.5M

• Why....?

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What is Node.JS

• Evented IO for JavaScript

• V8 Engine from google chrome

• Everything asynchronous

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Demo Cloud9

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Whats next?• Full collaboration

• Autocomplete and docs for Node.JS

• Git UI

• iPad version

• SSH / SFTP support

• Support for Ruby, Python, PHP, (Java)

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Behind Cloud9 IDE

• Entire backend is written in Node.JS / Redis

• IDE and libraries opensourced

• Based on connect, socket.io, ACE, JSDav

• Run and debug your Node.JS code

• Cloud9 is written with Cloud9

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Its not working! We have to go deeper

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Server

IdeServer

reverse proxy NGINX

project.user.c9.io

*.c9.io

run VMcontrol

node process control

Client

static.c9.io

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Client

IdeServer

reverse proxy

Socket IOV8 Debugger

run VMJSON TCP

node process V8 Sock

Debug

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Client

Connect JSDav Socket IO

IDE Server

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Node.JS continuity

• Single process, single exception crashes everything: NEVER THROW

• Thick client, design stateless

• Front proxy

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Foundations

• APF - Ajax.org Platform (ui.ajax.org)

• ACE - Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor (ace.ajax.org)

• Cloud9 IDE (github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9)

• JSDav, WebFS, Async.JS, Node-Github, etc...

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Thank you

• email: rik@ajax.org

• twitter: @Cloud9IDE / @rikarends

• github: github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9

• c9.io or cloud9ide.com

• www.ajax.org

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