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layout: meetup
title: 'Release the Kraken: A Story of Node.js in the Enterprise'
author: astacy
when: 2014-01-21T19:30:00-06:00
speakers:
  - name: Jeff Harrell
    title: Director of Engineering at PayPal
    avatar: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1740791116/Headshot_400x400.jpg
    bio:
    email:
    homepage:
    twitter: juxtajeff
    github:
    linkedin:
  - name: Erik Toth
    title: Principal Software Engineer AT PayPal
    avatar: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1444382597/astro-cat-200x200_400x400.png
    bio:
    email:
    homepage:
    twitter: eriktoth
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sponsor: retailmenot
venue: frog
after: gingerman
organizers:
  - astacy
---

Happy New Year, Austin JavaScriptorians! Hopefully you're enjoying your 2014 SO MUCH you've already broken those pesky resolutions you made a couple of weeks ago.

We're kicking the new year off with an exciting talk from our friends at PayPal called "Release the Kraken: A Story of Node.js in the Enterprise." Jeff Harrell and Erik Toth will tell us how PayPal revitalized its tech stack by moving from Java, JSP, and proprietary solutions to a Node.js web application stack with [dust.js][1] templating. Developer agility was the primary motivation, but along the way they had to take on enterprise culture and teach people that JavaScript is no longer a "toy," but a powerful tool to wield. We'll also take a look at PayPal's web app framework, [Kraken][2].

[1]: http://akdubya.github.io/dustjs/
[2]: https://github.com/paypal/kraken-js
