Ryan Dahl: History of Node.js

; Date: Wed Oct 05 2011

In this talk, Ryan Dahl gives an expansive history of Node.js, not just the technological history but his personal history leading to developing Node.js. As a Mathematics PhD student in up-state New York, he had a "what the f**k am I doing" moment, dropped out of the program, and moved to Chile and ended up writing PHP websites. One thing led to another, and he became embroiled in the question of why Rails is so slow and doesn't scale well. And that led to the realizations leading to developing Node.js as a single threaded system relying on asynchronous code execution.

About the Author(s)

David Herron : David Herron is a writer and software engineer focusing on the wise use of technology. He is especially interested in clean energy technologies like solar power, wind power, and electric cars. David worked for nearly 30 years in Silicon Valley on software ranging from electronic mail systems, to video streaming, to the Java programming language, and has published several books on Node.js programming and electric vehicles.

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