About the Authors

Sandro Pasquali formed Simple.com in 1997, a technology company that sold the world's first JavaScript-based application development framework and was awarded several patents for deployment and advertising technologies that anticipated the future of internet-based software. Node represents, for him, the natural next step in the inexorable march toward the day when JavaScript powers nearly every level of software development.

Sandro has led the design of enterprise-grade applications for some of the largest companies in the world, including Nintendo, Major League Baseball, Bang and Olufsen, LimeWire, AppNexus, Conde Nast, and others. He has displayed interactive media exhibits during the Venice Biennial, won design awards, built knowledge management tools for research institutes and schools, and started and run several start-ups. Always seeking new ways to blend design excellence and technical innovation, he has made significant contributions across all levels of software architecture, from data management and storage tools to innovative user interfaces and frameworks.

He is the author of Deploying Node.js, also by Packt Publishing, which aims to help developers get their work in front of others.

Sandro runs a software development company in New York and trains corporate development teams interested in using Node and JavaScript to improve their products. He spends the rest of his time entertaining his beautiful daughter and his wife.

You can follow him on Twitter at @spasquali, at github.com/sandro-pasquali, and read more of his writing on Node, JavaScript, and software engineering at exploringnode.com.

I would, first of all, like to thank my coauthor, Kevin Faaborg, for his perspective on this book, and my family for their support. The team at Packt deserves a lot of credit for gracefully encouraging me to keep writing about a topic I love. I'd also like to thank all those who bought the first edition and wrote to thank me for the book, especially those who took up Node more seriously because of it. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have written another. To the ones who wrote negative reviews, I thank you even more.

Kevin Faaborg is a professional software developer and an avid software hobbyist. At Harvard, he learned C programming from visiting professor Brian Kernighan. He witnessed and contributed to how digital technology has shaped music distribution, working first at MTV Networks, then at Lime Wire LLC, and now at Spotify AB, where he designed and started the patent program.

Kevin travels frequently, spending time each year in San Francisco, Colorado, NYC, and Stockholm. You can follow him on Twitter at @zootella, at github.com/zootella, and read more of his writing on Node, JavaScript, and software engineering at exploringnode.com.

To my parents, for keeping a place and being people I can always go home to.
And to all the tinkers who have ever been told, "you're doing it wrong."
You're not.