Mithun Satheesh - Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS

Mithun Satheesh is an open source enthusiast and a web developer from India. He has over five years of web development experience and specializes in JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, and other frontend engineering technologies. He is the author of a couple of libraries on Node.js, which are available as opensource via npm. One of these is called node-rules, which is a forward-chaining rule engine implementation written initially to handle transaction risks on bookmyshow.com, one of his former employers. Node rules have a considerable user following both on npm and GitHub. Apart from this, he has also served as an individual contributor to many open source projects on GitHub.

He is a regular on programming sites such as Stack Overflow and loves contributing to the open source world. Apart from programming, he is also interested in experimenting with various cloud platform solutions. He has a number of applications listed in the developer spotlight of platform-as-a-service providers such as RedHat's OpenShift.

You can follow him on Twitter at @mithunsatheesh.

I would like to thank my parents for all the support they have given me. I am thankful to all my teachers for whatever knowledge I have gained in my life.

Bruno Joseph D'mello is a web application engineer currently working at Built.io. He is a JavaScript enthusiast and has a keen interest in different web technologies and the programming paradigms implemented in them.

Thanks to my family for their patience and encouragement.

Jason Krol is a passionate web developer with over 15 years of professional experience creating highly interactive web applications using the latest in both client and server technologies.

Over the past few years, Jason has been focusing on developing Single-Page Applications using JavaScript in the full stack with Node.js, MongoDB, and Backbone.js. After co-owning and running a successful web development agency for a number of years, Jason recently joined AWeber Communications, an e-mail marketing service provider in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

When he isn't writing code for work or side projects, Jason blogs about his development experiences and opinions at KrolTech.com. Jason loves spending his free time with his wife and 8-year-old son.

A very special thank you to my wonderful wife for putting up with me and for always being there to push me whenever I doubt myself.

Huseyin Babal is an enthusiastic full stack developer since 2007. He mainly develops web applications using Java, Node.js, and PHP on the backend, AngularJS, and Twitter Bootstrap on the frontend, and Elasticsearch and MongoDB for some research projects. He is the author of NodeJS in Action in Udemy with over 1,500 students. He is also interested in DevOps engineering and applies continuous delivery principles to his projects. He writes tutorials about full stack development on Tuts+ and Java Code Geeks and shares his experiences at public conferences.

Besides the computer world, he lives in Istanbul with his wonderful wife and two cockatiels. He likes to spend his spare time with his wife by walking at least an hour per day, visiting different places, watching cartoons, and going on summer holidays.

Luke P. Issac is a full stack JavaScript developer with bachelor's of technology degree (Hons.) in computer science engineering. He has also been a technical writer for the past two years for www.thegeekstuff.com where he keeps on sharing his works with the world in a simplified form and mentors an active technical discussion on the blog.

His experience over the last four years involves his contribution to several successful e-commerce implementations around the globe. He believes that technology is not a bar and continues to research different technology stacks to find efficient and optimized solutions for the continuously evolving Web. Thus, he has hands-on experience with live e-commerce implementations on the MEAN stack and the LAMP stack, which makes him very versatile in web development.

He had his thankful contribution on behalf of the Author in reviewing and adding content for Getting Started with Flurry Analytics , Packt Publishing .

I want to thank my parents, Mr. Issac P. L. and Mrs. Sisily Issac, who worked hard for my education, and all my friends for their continuous support and inspiration to explore more and share it with the world.

Alexandru-Emil Lupu is a CTO and Ruby on Rails developer at 2Performant.com. Alex has about 10 years of experience in the web development industry, during which time he learned a lot of skills from e-commerce platforms implementation and presentation sites, to online games code writing. He is one of the developers who are constantly learning new programming languages and he has no problem understanding Ruby, PHP, Python, JavaScript, and Java code.

Alex is very passionate about programming and computer science; when he was a teenager, he did not have his own computer or an Internet connection (hard to believe, but true). He would go to an Internet cafe to read about his programming problems and would then struggle to implement them at home. He fondly remembers those days and hopes he's the same guy from 10 years ago with much more experience. For him, passion is the word that describes the challenge he faced while learning. Trust me, it is not easy to be a youngster, but also willing to learn new stuff. Coming home at 2-3 A.M, determined to install Linux just to learn about it, is not as easy as it sounds. I had a Pentium I at 133 MHz in the Pentium IV at 1800 MHz era!