Building Node.js applications on Windows Azure

Building Node.js applications on Windows Azure – Aidan Casey , solutions architect @MYOB

Node.js is a server side platform built on Google’s V8 JavaScript engine that enables you to easily build lightweight scalable network applications. Although it is just three years old, Node.js is gaining traction as an application development platform - letting developers extend JavaScript beyond the browser and into servers.

This session will include an introduction to Node.js. You’ll learn how to create, debug and deploy Node.js apps on Azure. You’ll get a better understanding of the types of systems that lend themselves to being developed on Node.js.

The talk will include code demos, tips and tricks on getting the best from this new technology

We will also have our usual News segment prior to this talk.