Myles Borins talks with Mark and Francesc about Node.js from its history, how to contribute, the consensus-seeking governance, and why it’s important to Google Cloud Platform.

Node.js is an open-source, JavaScript runtime environment built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine, and Google is a Platinum Member of the Node.js Foundation.



About Myles Borins

Myles Borins is a developer, musician, artist, and maker he works for Google as a developer advocate serving the Node.js ecosystem he graduated with a Master of Music Science and Technology from c.c.r.m.a. a.k.a the center for computer research in music and acoustics

Cool things of the week


Reduced GPU prices on GCP and preemptible local SSDs blog
Skylake processors now available in 7 regions blog
New Episodes of Learn TensorFlow and Deep Learning, without a PhD:


Modern Convolutional Neural Nets video
Modern RNN Architectures video
Deep Reinforcement Leanring video



Interview


Node.js site
Node.js on Google Cloud Platform site docs
Node School site
Node.js with Justin Beckwith podcast
App Engine site docs
Cloud Functions site docs
Kubernetes Engine site doc
Introduction to Kubernetes: How to Deploy a Node.js Docker App site
Socket.io site


Question of the week

How do you give public postmordems?


Fearless shared postmortems - CRE life lessons blog


Where can you find us next?

Mark will be Montreal in December to speak at Montreal International Games Summit.
Melanie will be at SOCML (Self-Organizing Conference on Machine Learning) end of this week and NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) in Long Beach next week.