San Francisco-based StrongLoop Gets Hold of Canadian Startup NodeFly’s Node.js for Undisclosed Sum of Money

By: Jeff Stewart | August 4th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada

San Francisco-based StrongLoop stated on Tuesday, July 23rd that it has got hold of a Vancouver-based monitoring solution company, NodeFly‘s Node.js. Although, StrongLoop did not reveal the terms of the deal in the announcement, it appears that the San Francisco-based company will operate the monitoring solution startup as a subsidiary. So, NodeFly’s will soon be rebranded as StrongOps. Here is what StrongLoop has revealed on its blog, while announcing the acquisition:

“At StrongLoop we’re examining the entire application development lifecycle. We not only want to make it easier and faster to develop robust Node.js applications on top of our distribution, but also provide any easy and seamless way to maintain them in production. To this end, I am excited to announce that StrongLoop has acquired NodeFly’s Node.js monitoring solution. The acquisition of NodeFly’s technology provides us with this capability plus rounds out our offering, bringing us closer to fulfilling our vision of a complete toolset for developing Node.js applications.

What’s Changing?

– The NodeFly service has been rebranded to StrongOps, to better match the naming scheme of StrongLoop’s other products.

– Behind the scenes, the NodeFly npm module has been renamed to “strong-agent”.

– The agent is now baked into StrongLoop’s distribution of Node.js. So, if you are running our distro, it just takes a single command to enable it.

– You’ll also see the registration and dashboard move to the StrongLoop site over the next month or so.

– In the future, you’ll be able to take full advantage of seamless integration between StrongLoop Node and StrongOps. For example, the ability to leverage the enhancements StrongLoop has made to the node-inspector module, so you can perform debugging drill downs on Node processes being monitored by StrongOps.”

Other than that, little will change in terms of the current service in the short term. In fact today we are pleased to announce a few updates…

Clustered Application Data

NodeFly is now aggregating the data for all the processes in your applications. No more sifting through an endless process list. You’ll see the aggregated statistics for all processes in the dashboard, with the continued ability to drill down to an individual processes using the filters on the left.

CPU Profiler

The profiler dashboard now provides an easy way to get detailed CPU data for an individual process.

Native EventLoop Statistics

The event loop statistics are now more accurate than ever! It can chart the average time taken by the eventloop and the slowest eventloop for that minute.

What Stays the Same?

The NodeFly team will continue to develop the NodeFly service as usual. Over the long haul, their mission remains unchanged. They will continue to build the best full service Node.js monitoring and management console in the industry. We believe this will complement many of the products that StrongLoop is developing.

In fact, we’ve just released a new version of our distribution, StrongLoop Node with tons of cool features like advanced debugging, clustering and support for on-premise npm registries. You can read more about these new features in the StrongLoop Node 1.1 announcement blog. NodeFly has attracted a loyal following of developers in a short period of time and we look forward to taking these next steps with an incredible new partner!

What’s Next?

– Sign up for the webinar, “Node.js Deep Dive: “Node.js Deep Dive: Debugging Applications and Private npm Registries””