In Episode 0 of SE Daily, Yad and Jeff give a prologue to many of the topics that will be covered in JavaScript Week. Right-click to download the episode. Links:

React.js is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. Facebook and Instagram maintain the open-source repository and use the technology to build front-end components. Questions include:

Meteor is a full-stack web framework for building isomorphic JavaScript applications. Questions include: Links:

TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles down to regular JavaScript. Jon Turner maintains the TypeScript package at Microsoft. Links:

MongoDB is a cross-platform document-oriented database. Bryan Reinero is a developer advocate at MongoDB. Questions include: Links:

restify is a node.js module built to enable correct REST web services. Netflix uses restify to gain performance and visibility. Yunong Xiao, senior engineer at Netflix, talks about the incident which incited Netflix’s service migration to restify. The discussion starts with an explanation of flame graphs and evolves into a conversation about restify, and the importance of choosing the correct RESTful API. Links:

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Yunong Xiao is a senior engineer at Netflix. He works on the website’s Node.js front-end and middle-tier services. Topics discussed: Links:

Cloudera allows enterprises to leverage their data through its Hadoop platform. Eli Collins is the Chief Technologist at Cloudera. Topics include: Links:

Matei Zaharia created Spark, and is the co-founder of Databricks, a company using Spark to power data science.

Eric Sammer is the co-founder and CTO of Rocana. At Cloudera, he served as an Engineering Manager responsible for tools and partner integrations. Within that role, he developed many of Cloudera’s best practices for developing large, distributed, data processing infrastructure.

Guozhang Wang is an engineer at Confluent, which offers a stream data platform built using Kafka.

Flavio Junqueira is a committer and PMC of Apache ZooKeeper, and former VP of ZooKeeper.

Venkatesh Seetharam is a software engineer at Hortonworks. He has worked on several Apache projects, including Hadoop, Falcon, and Atlas.

Christopher Berner works on Presto at Facebook.

Michael Miller is the author of “The Ultimate Guide To Bitcoin” and 150 other books. Michael is an expert in explaining complex topics in ways which are comprehensible to the layperson.

Faisal Khan is a banking, payments, and fintech consultant with a background in electrical engineering.

Melanie Swan is a science and technology innovator and philosopher at the MS Futures Group. She founded the Institute for Blockchain Studies, and is the author of Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy.

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Andreas Antonopoulos is a bitcoin researcher, journalist, and evangelist.