JavaScript has grown far beyond the browser. It now powers millions of backend systems,

APIs, and cloud services through Node.js, which is one of the most widely deployed

runtimes on the planet. Keeping such a critical piece of infrastructure fast, secure, and stable,

is a massive engineering challenge, and the work behind it is often invisible.

Raphael Gonzaga is a principal open source engineer at NodeSource and a member of the Node.js

Technical Steering Committee. He spent years digging into the performance and security layers of

nodes core, helping shape the direction of the runtime itself.

Raphael joins the show to talk about the state of Node.js performance, how benchmarking really

works, the balance between speed and stability, and what it means to contribute to one of the

world's most important open source projects. This episode is hosted by Josh Goldberg, an independent full-time open source developer.

Josh works on projects in the TypeScript ecosystem, most notably TypeScript ESLint,

a powerful static analysis tool set for JavaScript and TypeScript. He is also the author of the O'Reilly Learning

TypeScript book, a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies, and a co-founder of SquiggleConf,

a conference for excellent web developer tooling. Find Josh on Blue Sky, Faustodon, and dot com as

Joshua K. Goldberg.

With me today is Hachael Gonzaga,

principal open source engineer at NodeSource.

Raphael, welcome to Software Engineering Daily.

Hello, thank you.

I'm happy to be here.

We're excited to have you.

You do a lot of great stuff with Node.js and performance at New Zealand libraries.

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