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Getting started with Node.js

Andrew Glover, Author and developer, Beacon50

Andrew Glover is a developer, author, speaker, and entrepreneur with a passion for behavior-driven development, Continuous Integration, and Agile software development. He is the founder of the easyb Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) framework and is the co-author of three books: Continuous Integration, Groovy in Action, and Java Testing Patterns. You can keep up with him at his blog and by following him on Twitter.

Summary: Learn what Node.js is and how to get started using it in this brief introduction.

Date: 11 Nov 2011
Level: Introductory

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In this demo, Andrew Glover introduces Node.js, a server side implementation of JavaScript built on top of Google's V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js is finding a home among web developers, both for its ability to handle concurrency and because it was built with web development in mind. You'll be amazed at how simple it is to write and comprehend, and asynchronous callbacks make it extremely powerful. Once an app is written, it can be deployed to any number of PaaS providers, for maximum scalability.

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