(switch clicking) >> Hey, welcome back, everybody. Jeff Frick, here with theCUBE. We're at the Mission Bay Conference Center in downtown San Francisco at Node Summit 2017. TheCUBE's been coming here for a number of years. In fact, Ryan Dahl's one of our most popular interviews in the history of the show, talking about Node. And, the community's growing, the performance is going up and there's a lot of good energy here, so we're excited to be here and there's a lot of big companies that maybe you would or wouldn't expect to be involved. And, we're excited to have Gaurav Seth. He is the Product Manager for Several Things JavaScript. I think that's the first time we've ever had that title on. He's from Microsoft. Thanks for stopping by. >> Yeah, hey, Jeff, nice to be here. Thanks for having me over. >> Absolutely, >> Yes. >> so let's just jump right into it. What is Microsoft doing here in such a big way? >> So, one of the things that Microsoft is, like, I think we really are, now, committed and, you know, we have the mantra that we are trying to follow which is any app, any developer, any platform. You know, Node actually is a great growing community and we've been getting soaked more and more and trying to help the community and build the community and play along and contribute and that's the reason that brings us here, like, it's great to see the energy, the passion with people around here. It's great to get those connections going, have those conversations, hear from the customers as to what they really need, hear from developers about their needs and then having, you know, a close set of collaboration with the Core community members to see how we can even evolve the project further. >> Right, right, and specifically on Azure, which is interesting. You know, it's been interesting to watch Microsoft really go full bore into cloud, via Azure. >> Right. >> I just talked to somebody the other day, I was talking about 365 being >> Uh huh. >> such a game-changer in terms of cloud implementation, as a big company. There was a report that came out about, you know, the path at 20 billion, >> Right. >> so, clearly, Microsoft is not only all-in, but really successfully >> Right. >> executing on that strategy >> Yeah, I mean-- >> and you're a big piece of that. >> Yes, I mean, I think one of the big, big, big pieces, really, is as the developer paradigms are changing, as the app paradigms are changing, you know, how do you really help make developers this transition to a cloud-native world? >> Right, right. >> How do you make sure that the app platforms, the underlying infrastructure, the cloud, the tools that developer use, how do you combine all of them and make sure that you're making it a much easier experience for developers to move on >> Right. >> from their existing paradigms to these new cloud-native paradigms? You know, one of the things we've been doing on the Azure side of the house and when, especially when we look at Node.js as a platform, we've been working on making sure that Node.js has a great story across all the different compute models that we support on Azure, starting from, like, hey, if you you want to do server list of functions, if you want to do BasS, if you want to go the container way, if you want to just use WEAMS, and, in fact, we just announced the Azure container instances, today, >> Right. >> so it's, one of the work, some of the work we are doing is really focused on making sure that the developer experiences as you migrate your workloads from old traditional, monolithic apps are also getting ready to move to this cloud native era. >> Right, so it's an interesting point of view from Microsoft 'cause some people, again, people in-the-know already know, but a lot of people maybe don't know, kind of, Microsoft's heritage in open source. We think, you know, that I used to buy my Office CD, >> Right. >> and my Outlook CD >> Right. >> you know, it's different, especially as you guys go more heavily into cloud, >> Right. >> you need to be more open to the various tools of the developer community. >> That's absolutely true and one of the focus areas for us, really, has been, you know, as we think through the cloud-native transition, what are the big pieces, the main open source tools, the frameworks that are available and how do we provide great experiences for those on Azure? >> Right, right. >> Right, because, at times, people come with the notion that, hey, Azure probably might just be good for dot NET or might just be good for Windows, but, you know, the actual fact, today, is really that Azure has great supporting story for Linux, Azure has great story for a lot of these open source tools and we are continuing to grow our story in that perspective. >> Right. >> So, we really want to make sure that open source developers who come and work on our platform are successful. >> And then, specifically for Node, and you're actually on the Board, so you've got >> Right. >> a leadership position, >> Yep. >> when you look at Node.js within the ecosystem of opensource projects and the growth that we keep hearing about in the sessions, >> Yep. >> you know, how are you, and you specifically and Microsoft generally, kind of helping to guide the growth of this community and the development of this community as it gets bigger and bigger and bigger? >> Right, I think that's a great question. I think from my perspective, and also Microsoft's perspective, there are a bunch of things we are actually doing to engage with the community, so I'll kind of list out three or four things that we are doing. I think the first and foremost is, you know, we are a participant in the Node.js Foundation. >> Right. >> You know, that's where like, hey, we kind of look at the administrative stuff. We are a sponsor of, you know, at the needed levels, et cetera, so that's just the initial monetary support, but then it gets to really being a part of the Node Core Committee, like, as we work on some of the Core pieces, as we evolve Node, how can we actually bring more perspectives, more value, into the actual project? So, that's, you know, we have many set of engineers who are, right now, working across different working groups with Node and helping evolve Node. You know, you might have heard about the NAPI effort. We are working with the Diagnostics Working Group, we are working with the Benchmarking Working Group and, you know, bringing the thing. The third thing that we did, a while back, was we also did this integration of bringing Chakra which is the JavaScript Runtime from Microsoft that powers Microsoft Edge. We made Node work with Chakra because we wanted to bring the power of Node to this new platform called Windows IoT >> Right, right. >> and, you know, the existing Node could not get there because some of the platform limitations. So, those are like some of the few examples that we've, and how we've been actually communicating and contributing. And then, I think the biggest and the foremost for me, really, are the two pillars, like when I think about Microsoft's contribution, it's really, like, you know, the big story or the big pivot for us is, we kind of go create developer tools and help make developer live's easier by giving them the right set of tools to achieve what they want to achieve in less time, be more productive >> Right, right. >> and the second thing is, really, like the cloud platforms, as things are moving. I think across both of those areas, our focus really had been to make sure that Node as a language, Node as a platform has great first-class experiences that we can help define. >> Right. Well, you guys are so fortunate. You have such a huge install base of developers, >> Right. >> but, again, traditionally, it wasn't necessarily cloud application developers and that's been changing >> Yep. >> over time >> Yep. >> and there's such a fierce competition for that guy, >> Yep. >> or gal, who wakes up >> Yep. >> in the morning or not, maybe, the morning, at 10:00, >> Yep. >> has a cup of coffee >> Yep. >> and has to figure out what they're going to develop today >> Right. >> and there's so many options >> Right. >> and it's a fierce competition, >> Right. >> so you need to have an easy solution, you need to have a nice environment, you need to have everything that they want, so they're coding on your stuff and not on somebody else's. >> That's true, I mean I, you know, somehow, I kind of instead of calling it competition, I have started using this term coopetition because between a lot of the companies and vendors that we talk about, right, it's more about, for all of us, it's working together to grow the community. >> Right. >> It's working together to grow the pie. You know, with open source, it's not really one over the other. It's like the more players you have and the more players who engage with great ideas, I think better things come out of that, so it's all about that coopetition, >> rather than competition, >> Right. >> I would say. >> Well, certainly, around and open source project, here, >> Yes, exactly. >> and we see a lot of big names, >> Exactly. >> but I can tell you, I've been to a lot of big shows where they are desperately trying to attract >> Right, right, yes. >> the developer ecosystem. "Come develop on our platforms." >> Yes, yes. >> So, you're in a fortunate spot, you started, >> Yes, I mean that-- >> not from zero, but, but open source is different >> Yes. >> and it's an important ethos because it is much more community >> Exactly, exactly. >> and people look at the name, they don't necessarily look at the title >> Exactly. >> or even the company >> Yep, exactly. >> that people work for. >> Exactly, and I think having more players involved also means, like, it's going to be great for the developer ecosystem, right, because everybody's going to keep pushing for making it better and better, >> Right. >> so, you know, as we grow from a smaller stage to, like, hey, there's actually a lot of enterprised option of these use case scenarios that people are coming up with, et cetera, it's always great to have more parties involved and more people involved. >> Gaurav, thank you very much >> Yeah. >> and, again, congratulations on your work here in Node. Keep this community strong. >> Sure. >> It looks like you guys are well on your way. >> Yeah. Thanks, Jeff. >> All right. >> Thanks for your time, take care, yeah. >> Guarav Seth, he's a Project Lead at Microsoft. I'm Jeff Frick. You're watching theCUBE from Node Summit 2017. Thanks for watching. (upbeat synthpop music)