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.