Bethany Griggs - Node Cookbook

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Bethany Griggs

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Bethany Griggs is a senior software engineer at Red Hat and a Node.js Technical Steering Committee member. Beth has been involved with the Node.js project since 2016 when she joined IBM's Node.js runtime team. Now at Red Hat, she is continuing her work on Node.js, including contributing to the Node.js project. Beth is an active member of the Node.js Release Working Group, who audit the content for and produce Node.js releases. Her other focuses include the creation of resources and tools to support Node.js deployments to the cloud.

Dennis Myasnyankin is experienced in creating web scrapers that utilize Python and JavaScript to gather large amounts of data from various online resources. He has extracted a wide range of data, including small business specifics, video-game reviews, and travel agency contacts. Dennis has also sourced information through the scraping of IMDB details, Zillow listings, and cruise line information from targeted domains. Dennis has completed significant projects primarily through JavaScript, using the MERN tech-stack for building dynamic web applications, and Node.js's Puppeteer library to complete scraping tasks. He is interested in expanding his knowledge in other languages and new technologies while creating meaningful solutions to real-world problems.

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