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Bert Belder, Node.JS core developer at Rackspace

Bert Belder

Biography: Bert Belder

After doing backend development for several years for various start-ups Bert suddenly found himself falling in love with node.js and porting it Windows. As such he has been one of the first to become member of the node.js core development team. In the meantime he's trying to graduate and finally get his degree in public policy.

Presentation: node.js

Track: JavaScript / Time: Tuesday 13:20 - 14:10 / Location: Lille Sal, Musikhuset

Node is a system for building network services with Google's JavaScript VM, V8. Node.js presents the same non-blocking, single execution stack programming model of client-side Javascript. It's argued that this simple model is close to optimal for writing servers.
 
keywords: javascript, server development, v8, non-blocking i/o, event loops
target audience: backend developers working with traditional web frameworks.