Oleg Podsechin

"We have written our own synchronous server in C++, which is modeled after Apache MPM and uses V8 as the JavaScript engine. We will be open sourcing it soon and providing distro specific binary packages, so watch this space and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/akshell_com" - Oleg Podsechin

"Kristoffer, glad you like it and picked up on the social interaction element between the CommonJS modules. Anton originally called the platform a "web application network" as opposed to a social network and that's a very accurate analogy. One way to look at what we do is to think of us as GitHub, but with running code within the same execution environment. In traditional development and deployment models there is a lack of trust between the application and library developers. If you want to use somebody's library, you make a copy of it and bundle it up with your application when deploying. The upside is that you can be sure the underlying library does not change. The downside is that upgrading to a new version of all the libraries is a tricky process of doing git pulls, running tests and redeploying. With Akshell, we believe that the social contract between module developers and users will be as strong as the interface definition. As with web APIs, the fact that the underlying..." - Oleg Podsechin

"Would love to see the webapps people are making with this. Here is one: http://tinyurl.com/67dou5n Here is another: http://names.akshell.com/" - Oleg Podsechin

"The HackerNews submission and comments are here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item..." - Oleg Podsechin