Libuv: The Power Underneath Node.js
*Excerpt
Learn about the magic that powers nodejs and has enabled other projects
to do cross platform non blocking io goodness.
Description
libuv provides a library for building cross platform non blocking
daemons and language environments. Learn about all of the magic that is
done behind the scenes to make node.js and other platforms such an
enjoyable experience to program in and so screaming fast for lots of io.
On top of all of that libuv is the best way today to take some C code
and have it run on top of Linux/BSD/Windows.
Speaking experience
OSB 2011 2009, linux plumbers 2009 2010, Ignite Portland, various internal conferences.
Speaker
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- Website: http://ifup.org/
- Blog: http://ifup.org/
- Twitter: BrandonPhilips
- Favorites: View Brandon's favorites
Biography
Brandon is the Developer Happiness Engineer at Rackspace/Cloudkick in San Francisco. Previously he worked as a Kernel developer at Novell/SuSE Labs.
He has presented at several technical conferences in the past including FreedomHEC Taipei, Linux Plumbers Conf and Ignite Portland 2 . In his spare time he tinkers with electronics and software, bikes, hikes and builds robots. For more information checkout his site.
Sessions
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- Title: Libuv: The Power Underneath Node.js
- Track: Chemistry
- Room: B204
- Time: 1:30 – 2:15pm
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Excerpt:
Learn about the magic that powers nodejs and has enabled other projects
to do cross platform non blocking io goodness. - Speakers: Brandon Philips
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- Title: An Introduction to Luvit
- Track: Chemistry
- Room: B201
- Time: 4:45 – 5:30pm
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Excerpt:
Luvit is a new open source asynchronous framework. We will dive into what this project does, how it works, and what the goals are for the future.
- Speakers: Brandon Philips