JavaScript has expanded well beyond the browser. It now supports millions of backend systems, APIs, and cloud services through Node.js, one of the most widely used runtimes globally. Maintaining such a crucial infrastructure to be fast, secure, and stable presents a significant engineering challenge, often with unseen efforts behind it.
Rafael Gonzaga is a Principal Open Source Engineer at NodeSource and a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee. With years spent examining the performance and security aspects of Node’s core, he has influenced the runtime’s direction. Rafael discusses the current state of Node.js performance, insights into benchmarking, balancing speed and stability, and what it means to contribute to a major open-source project.
Josh Goldberg is an independent full-time open-source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He focuses on projects that facilitate easier and better TypeScript development, notably typescript-eslint, which allows ESLint and Prettier to process TypeScript code. Josh regularly contributes to open-source projects like ESLint and TypeScript. As a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies and author of “Learning TypeScript” (O’Reilly), he provides a valuable resource for developers learning TypeScript without prior JavaScript experience. He frequently presents talks and workshops at various events to share his knowledge on TypeScript, static analysis, open source, and general web development.
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