Tuesday, February 16, 2016

52 Places to Go in 2016

Mexico City
Mexico
A metropolis that has it all.

Bordeaux
France
An ancient wine region gets a stunning update.

Malta
The Mediterranean on a dime.

Coral Bay
St. John
Visit the U.S. Virgin Islands’ quiet corner before big development.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park
North Dakota
A century of protecting America’s magnificence.

Mozambique
New island lodges and beach breaks — and more tolerance.

Toronto
Canada
Canada’s largest city is ready for its close-up.

Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates
New museums and hotels and a greening desert.

Skane
Sweden
Nordic cuisine’s next big thing.

Viñales
Cuba
Looking for the real Cuba? You’ve found it.

Guadeloupe
Easier access to wild beauty and a new look at a complicated legacy.

Park City
Utah
Always fun, now bigger — a lot bigger.

Aarhus
Denmark
Thriving Danish culture beyond well-trodden Copenhagen.

Cesme
Turkey
An Aegean region grows a food scene.

Road of the Seven Lakes
Argentina
A newly paved road to beautiful vistas.

Hangzhou
China
State-of-the-art museums and more in an ancient city.

Korcula Island
Croatia
Experience authentic life on the Dalmatian Coast.

San Sebastián
Spain
A culinary capital expands its repertoire.

Virunga National Park
Democratic Republic of Congo
Newly accessible, gorillas and a volcano in idyllic surroundings.

Grand Rapids
Michigan
A furniture-making city champions urban renewal and art.

Garzón
Uruguay
A new wine region blooms near celebrated beaches.

Dublin
Ireland
A city spruces up to celebrate a centenary.

Todos Santos
Mexico
A Pacific Coast retreat hosts a new green community.

Tamil Nadu
India
New gateways to India’s cultural core.

Vaud
Switzerland
The Lake Geneva region attracts new and renewed museums.

Washington
D.C.
Developments raise the bar downtown.

Brno
Czech Republic
Unexpected cuisine and nightlife in an architectural mecca.

Saint Helena
An isolated wonderland opens to air travel.

Barcelona
Spain
Celebrating a beloved architect all year.

Dalat
Vietnam
A cool alternative to the usual steamy Vietnamese destination.

Turin
Italy
Renewal in a former industrial capital.

Isla Holbox
Mexico
In Yucatán, an ecotourism gem emerges.

Providence
Rhode Island
The East Coast’s answer to Portland, Ore.?

Mosel wine country
Germany
Biodiversity, new hiking trails and a castle stay.

Pyeongchang
South Korea
Ski South Korea before the Olympians get there.

Tyrol
Austria
Bond, Swarovski crystal, new ski lifts and hotels.

Colmar
France
A revival fueled by modern art and architecture.

Kansai
Japan
An ancient region with new resorts and G7 ahead.

East Bay
California
Urban wineries and a soon-to-be-transformed waterfront.

Île de Ré
France
Who needs the French Riviera?

East Coast
Sri Lanka
Remote stillness — and world-class diving — beckon.

Rosine
Kentucky
Make a pilgrimage to the birthplace of bluegrass.

Málaga
Spain
Beauty, but now a cultural capital, too.

Guizhou
China
Authentic Chinese hill tribes without mass tourism — yet.

Phnom Penh
Cambodia
A design renaissance in Cambodia’s capital.

St. Louis
Missouri
A blues tribute near a more accessible arch.

Thessaloniki
Greece
Greece’s second-largest city is first in food.

Marfa
Texas
An offbeat cultural hub with a new hotel to shelter the curious.

Ubud
Indonesia
A spiritual destination reinvents itself.

The Southern Gulf Islands
British Columbia
Near Vancouver, islands with simpler charms.

Sydney
Australia
Embracing nature in two urban reclamation projects.

Beaufort
South Carolina
A peaceful Low Country town with a stylish new inn.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/07/travel/places-to-visit.html

Monday, February 8, 2016

Enterprises Benefit from Node.js

https://blog.risingstack.com/how-enterprises-benefit-from-nodejs

Advantages:
  1. It makes development faster and increases the productivity of teams with more than 230,000 npm modules
  2. The high-scalability of Node lets you spend less on infrastructure, since you can handle the same amount of load with less hardware.
  3. A well-established Long Term Support plan ensures that each release is going to be maintained for 30 months.
Enterprise uses Node.js:
  1. Dow Jones
  2. Uber
  3. GoDaddy
  4. Paypal
  5. Netflix
Should we also go with this stack for backend APIs? Pros and Cons?