Ben Augarten - Express.js Blueprints

Ben Augarten is a senior software engineer at Twitter, in the beautiful city of Boulder, Colorado, USA. He is an electrical engineering and computer science graduate from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of node-RESTful, a library used to generate RESTful endpoints for domain resources. Ben writes programs that are widely used, functional, and scalable. He primarily works on distributed systems, data processing, and web technologies.

My thanks to Packt Publishing for their help and support while writing this book. Also, thanks to the Axiom Zen team for their help in crafting the content. Finally, thanks to my friends and family for their support, and my co-workers for refraining from making too many Node.js jokes.

Marc Kuo has a neat freak personality, which is reflected in his clean and proficient code. As a full stack developer at Axiom Zen, he architects shipshape infrastructure and efficient model databases. He loves to hack in Common Lisp, CoffeeScript, Angular, and Node.js.

The neat freak in Marc comes from two important principles: efficiency and optimization. He is the founder of Routific, a routing solution that reduces waste in the transportation sector. In the open source field, he is the author of Alike and Look-Alike(recommendation engines for Node.js), T3 ( Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe ), and Zenbase-angular (gulp-angular-coffee-stylus-jade boilerplate).

Infinite gratitude goes out to my wife, Suzanne Ma, the cofounder of Routific as well as my life. Thanks for always joining me on my crazy adventures. I'd also like to express (no pun intended) exponential gratitude towards Axiom Zen for giving us this unique opportunity and for always fostering creativity.

Eric Lin is a software engineer at Axiom Zen in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He completed his master's degree in statistics and has been developing software professionally for 2 years. He is always looking forward to picking up new languages and technologies while having a personal interest in data analytics and predictive modeling.

My thanks to Packt Publishing for their support throughout the writing process and their flexibility on deadlines; to Axiom Zen, for the numerous opportunities they gave me to expand my knowledge in new technologies; finally, to my wife, Min-Chee Lo, for always being patient and understanding, especially on the days where I ended up working late.

Aidha Shaikh has a doctoral degree in chemistry from the University of British Columbia, where she researched enzymes that cleave blood antigens to make universal O-type blood, and published several first-authored papers. After completing an NSERC Post Doctoral Industrial R&D Fellowship, she embraced her love for coding. She recently stepped out of her lab coat and donned a coder hoodie with pride.

Aidha's research-rich past stays with her as she constantly looks for new ways to solve problems, and she loves learning new things everyday. She started off with frontend web development. She really loves to hack into Node.js and Express.js.

My deepest thanks go to Axiom Zen for the amazing opportunities, learning experiences, and creative avenues I've been given. I would also like to thank the Packt Publishing team for all their support and work on this book with us.

Fabiano Pereira Soriani does what he loves as a software developer at Axiom Zen in Santiago, Chile. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brazil, and a certification in project management from Canada. He has developed software professionally for over 5 years, always focusing on new and productive web technologies, with an intense focus on the impact they have on users and other stakeholders alike. He aims for excellence in product and agile product lifecycles.

Fabiano has published open source Node.js packages and a number of how-to blog posts, ranging from backend concepts and Ruby on Rails all the way through to the cutting-edge frontend.

Thanks to the talented and patient staff at Packt Publishing for helping us instill the best book we could. It has been quite a long journey. Also, thanks to Axiom Zen, for the vision and encouragement, and allowing time for this projectthis is a part of what makes this company so unique.

Finally, thanks to my companion, Asuka Kiriyama, who was kind and tolerant of the long work hours required to write the content of this book.

Geoffrey Tisserand is a full stack software engineer, who focuses on building reliable and scalable applications and services for Axiom Zen's products. He completed his master's degree in computer science at the Universit de technologie in Belfort-Montbliard, France. He is a nitpicky and detail-oriented JavaScript and Ruby ninja, who really enjoys discovering new technologies, APIs, and frameworks to play with.

A start-up enthusiast, Geoffrey is thrilled to be in an environment where he is constantly learning and improving his skills. He also loves to build side-projects and create experiments, and is always thinking about his next idea for a start-up.

Chiqing Zhang is an exceptional software architect, whose clean and simple code has leveraged scalable and maintainable systems for some of the world's top technology companies, such as Microsoft, Baidu, and AppAnnie. As a full stack developer at Axiom Zen, he is passionate about building highly reliable systems and delivering products with the best user experience. Chiqing was granted a patent for multilayer structured data operations and he has published a book on Microsoft Silverlight technologies.