JavaScript and Node.js — why the ugly duckling is conquering the world JS

JavaScript was born as this somewhat weird language to make the webpages in the browser more dynamic. Nowadays companies like Netflix and Uber use JavaScript in the backend to serve their content as fast as possible to millions of users.

• What happened?
• Where else is JavaScript used today?
• Why are more and more companies using it?

These and more questions will be discussed in the talk.