In this episode of The Future of Node series recorded at Node Interactive 2016 Adam talked with Sam Roberts (Node Runtimes at IBM) and Thomas Watson (Node.js Lead at Opbeat) about “Small Core” and keeping Node Core small, what to put in, what to take out, how to deprecate and everything in-between.

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• Sam Roberts – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Thomas Watson – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

This “The Future of Node” Spotlight series was produced in partnership with The Linux Foundation, the Node.js Foundation, and sponsored by IBM and StrongLoop. It was recorded at Node Interactive 2016 in Austin, TX.

• Node.js JavaScript runtime (aka Node Core) on GitHub
• Thanks to IBM and Dave Whiteley for having Sam to participate in this roundtable discussion
• Thanks to Opbeat for sending Thomas to Node Interactive and for all the other ways they support the community.
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