--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 98" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 98 published_at: "2015-08-06" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/98" --- This Week's Node.js News - Issue 98 This week's Node and io.js news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/98) Node WeeklyAugust 6, 2015 #98 SitePoint [How to Create a Node Cluster to Speed Up Your Apps](http://www.sitepoint.com/how-to-create-a-node-js-cluster-for-speeding-up-your-apps/)Node’s ‘cluster’ module makes it easy to take advantage of multiple cores in Node by creating and managing separate processes that share the parent’s server ports. io.js [io.js 3.0.0 Released](https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#2015-08-04-version-300-rvagg) Servant [JAWS: The JavaScript + AWS Stack](https://github.com/servant-app/JAWS)A server-free, webapp boilerplate using bleeding-edge AWS services that redefine how to build massively scalable web applications. Frontend MastersSponsor [Get a Free Week's Worth of Training From the Masters](https://frontendmasters.com/hi/courses/crash-course?utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_term=free-week&utm_content=free-week&utm_campaign=crash-course)Get access to your choice of a full-week of in-depth video lessons. Choose from either Introduction to Web Development, Angular, or Advanced JavaScript -- completely free! [![Frontend Masters\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/74f299f8.png)](https://frontendmasters.com/hi/courses/crash-course?utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_term=free-week&utm_content=free-week&utm_campaign=crash-course) RisingStack [Node.js Production Environment: A Step-By-Step Guide](https://blog.risingstack.com/nodejs-production-environment-for-startups/)It’s not trivial to set up a Node.js production environment along with a continuous deployment pipeline, but this tutorial looks at the key steps. Empire Node [Empire Node 2015: New York City, Oct 23](http://2015.empirenode.org/)The 2015 edition of Empire Node, a premier one day, single-track, community-run Node.js conference in NYC has been announced and is accepting submissions for talks. Jowanza's World [Dealing With SOAP APIs in Node.js](http://jowanza.com/post/125602755114/dealing-with-soap-apis-in-nodejs)You might not want to, but you might have to. Tomás [toxy: Hackable HTTP Proxy to Simulate Server Failures and Unexpected Conditions](https://github.com/h2non/toxy)A Node/io.js based proxy built for fuzzing/’evil’ testing purposes, such as testing fault tolerance and resiliency capabilities of a system, especially in service-oriented architectures. Jobs - [We’re hiring Software Engineers to continue improving our awesome product (Dublin, Ireland)](https://intercom.workable.com/jobs/64782) Come help us build a modern messaging layer used by 100's of millions of people in thousands of our paying customer sites. 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Laurie Voss - [Making Netflix.com Faster](http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/08/making-netflixcom-faster.html) opinion Leaning on ‘universal’ JavaScript, and shared server and client-side rendering. The Netflix Tech Blog - [xo: JavaScript Happiness Style](https://github.com/sindresorhus/xo) tools A tool to enforce strict code style. Never discuss code style on a pull request again. Sindre Sorhus - [Professional code hosting for developers teams](https://www.codebasehq.com/t/nodeweekly-160715) tools Codebase offers fast reliable hosting for Git, Mercurial Subversion repositories with a whole wealth of project management features built-in. 50% off first 3 months with code NODEWEEKLY. CodebaseSponsor - [Qr-Cairo: A QR Code Generator for Node](https://github.com/kabab/qr-cairo) code Relies on the Cairo library and libqrencode. 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