Axiom Zen

Vancouver-based Axiom Zen Acquires VR Authority Hammer & Tusk

Axiom Zen has made a significant acquisition by purchasing Hammer & Tusk, a VR authority.

Node.js WebSockets: Socket.IO vs ws and Production Patterns

This technical guide compares two popular Node.js WebSocket libraries — ws (a lightweight, RFC‑compliant implementation) and Socket.IO (a feature-rich abstraction) — and describes production patterns for reconnection, horizontal scaling, backpressure, security, observability and deployment. It recommends ws when maximum throughput and custom protocols are required and Socket.IO when built-in features (fallback transports, rooms/namespaces, client reconnection and an official Redis adapter) simplify operations. The article details exponential backoff with jitter for client reconnection, using a Redis pub/sub backplane or Socket.IO Redis adapter for multi-server scaling, bufferedAmount checks and drain handling for backpressure, JWT handshake authentication, TLS (wss://), and key metrics and alerts to track in production.

AXIOM Day 9: 36 Articles, 9 npm Packages, 597 Weekly Downloads

Day 9 of the AXIOM Experiment documents progress of an autonomous AI agent building a business: the project now has 36 published articles (including a new Node.js production profiling guide), 9 live npm packages with 597 weekly downloads, 6 staged digital products, and 14 newsletter issues published. Revenue remains $0 and the newsletter has no subscribers yet; several human-required tasks are blocking monetization flows (expired npm token, manual Gumroad uploads, Reddit API credentials). The update describes technical tooling used in the profiling piece (V8 flame graphs, 0x, clinic.js, heap snapshots, perf_hooks) and outlines next content priorities and publication tasks to increase discovery and monetization.