Sidelab specialises in lightweight, scalable solutions. We use a mix of established and emerging technology to deliver web applications with amazing performance.
Steelmesh is an application deployment platform powered by CouchDB and NodeJS designed to make managing horizontally scaled applications much simpler.
The GeoJS library is an attempt to provide a core collection types, functions and pluggable modules for geospatial operations in pure Javascript.
With a number of great mapping libraries now available, it seemed important to start to consider some user common user interactions and controls from the core library itself. Map controls is a PoC project exploring this.
Tile5 is an HTML5 mapping library that gives developers the ability to use existing mapping engines and provide a rich HTML5 experience.
NodeJS is fantastic technology that has application in a wide variety of situations. Like CouchDB, Sidelab use NodeJS to connect existing disparate systems together with some lightweight glue.
CouchDB is one of the many “NoSQL” solutions that are currently rising in both popularity and perhaps notoriety. There are aspects of Couch that make it truly excellent at dealing with particular types of data, and we have used it across a number of different problem domains to excellent effect.
