Nodejitsu Inc was a

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platform as a service (PaaS). Nodejitsu was based on Node.js and serves Node.js applications on their platform. Nodejitsu's headquarters were in

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, with

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s in the

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and

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. Nodejitsu announced in February 2015 that they have been acquired by

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and will be exiting the PaaS business.

History

Nodejitsu was founded in by Charlie Robbins, Marak Squires, and Paolo Fragomeni. Coined "the original Node.js platform as a service", Nodejitsu partnered with

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on .

took a shot at a Node.js platform as a service previously. As of ,

no longer offers the No.de platform as a service, and instead recommends Nodejitsu. On May 22, 2013, Nodejitsu acquired IrisCouch. The IrisCouch team has merged with the Nodejitsu team during this acquisition, introducing Jeff Jackson as the new

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and Jason Smith as the new chief technical officer. IrisCouch will also be blended into Nodejitsu's current platform to provide an all-in-one platform for deploying Node.js applications, as well as provisioning

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and

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databases. This also means that IrisNPM will be shut down and merged into Nodejitsu's platform. Nodejitsu will still be allowing private NPM repositories, but there is not a pricing model for these databases or NPM repositories yet. On June 4 and 5, 2013, Nodejitsu was featured in

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and

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for being one of the first companies that has been invested in by Bloomberg Beta, a new $75 million start-up investment fund headed by former IGN executive Roy Bahat. In February 2015, Nodejitsu announced that they have been acquired by

and will be exiting the PaaS business.

Open Source

Continuing with the Nodejitsu tradition of

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, Nodejitsu maintains numerous open-source projects in thei
Github
repositories. On top of their open-source contributions, they also offer one free drone (server) to open-source applications as of . Open-source applications must be able to provide a

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with the user's

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Controversy

Sometime around , Nodejitsu was banned on

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due to controversy following the actions of Marak Squires' alleged

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of Hacker News and claims of Nodejitsu rallying users to increase votes on their posts. Charlie Robbins combated the ban, pointing out that users of Nodejitsu are given Nodejitsu

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s for their applications. It is still a common occurrence, as with many other

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, that Nodejitsu users post their applications to Hacker News for public feedback. The ban on the Nodejitsu

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caused all users' posts containing a Nodejitsu

to be removed. Nodejitsu's ban on Hacker News has been lifted since , and was publicly announced on Hacker News by Paul Graham.

References

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History

Open Source

Controversy

See also

References