A presentation at Women Who Code Melbourne, Lightning Talks in in Melbourne VIC, Australia by Melissa Houghton
Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. - Jeff Atwood
A look at all the fun stuff you can do with JavaScript, in the cloud!
Traditionally, JavaScript is the language of the web, and it still is. But today it’s so much more. With the advent of server-side JavaScript and JavaScript support in major cloud platforms, JavaScript’s power increased dramatically.
From building, maintaining, optimising and deploying, the end to end development and delivery process is possible with JavaScript in the cloud.
Cloud platforms give us the tools, elasticity and scalability to create high performing applications without managing the physical infrastructure.
Take advantage of the cloud while using a language you already know: JavaScript!
The following resources were mentioned during the presentation or are useful additional information.
My personal blog post based on this talk.
Talk by Scott Hanselman “JavaScript, The Cloud, and The Rise of the New Virtual Machine”, presented at European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Community Dec 2019.
Blog by Jeff Atwood where he defined Atwood’s law as a corollary to Tim Berners-Lee Rule of Least Power
Usage Statistics of JavaScript as a client-side programming language on websites
for free. You
can too.