Authentication, serverless apps and more traffic than you can handle

For this evening of javascript in the mile high city we'll be romping about the stack talking about several different technologies relevant to javascript developers:

Authentication: MozillaPersona is a new way to authenticate to websites that can be integrated in less than a day, and is fully supported by one of the worlds leading software non-profits: it's built using modern client side javascript techinques. We'll give an overview of the project and survey at a high level the javascript API and implementation.
Serverless Applications: Once upon a time we built web applications on virtual machines that we built up from scratch. Then the notion of a "platform as a service" came about, where we stopped choosing webserver technology and focused on our applications. Firebase represents what the next phase of our evolution may look like - where you stop thinking about database technology and your server, and focus on building the application that your users will see.
Scaling Node.JS Servers: We'll dig deep into one or two libraries that let you build web applications using Node.JS that maximally leverage your hardware and don't melt.

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Lloyd Hilaiel
A full-stack hacker working on https://persona.org (https://persona.org/). Currently interested in Node.JS and creating stuff that matters. Enjoys sharing on github (lloyd (http://github.com/lloyd)), and can be found on twitter (@lloydhilaiel (http://twitter.com/lloydhilaiel)).

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@anantn (http://twitter.com/anantn) is a long time fan of JavaScript and a hacker at https://www.firebase.com (https://www.firebase.com/). Before that he worked at https://mozillalabs.com/ on a variety of experiments in web technologies