Distributed Systems with Node.js: Building Enterprise-Ready Backend Services by Thomas Hunter II is an English-language textbook aimed at developers who want to specialize in high-performance backend services. It covers the building of scalable and resilient backend services using Node.js within distributed systems.
This handbook provides practical insights into integrating application code with modern tools for observability, scalability, and debugging in a business environment. Among other topics, the author addresses:
- Running redundant Node.js instances for reliability
- Selecting protocols per scenario
- Optimizing application containers for production
- Debugging in a distributed context
- Improving performance via reverse proxies
- Developing dashboards for monitoring service health
This work aligns with themes such as web programming and distributed systems, and is suitable for intermediate to advanced Node.js developers who want to learn how Node.js can be used for enterprise-ready backend services.