217 JSJ The Now Project with Guillermo Rauch

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yourself yeah so I'm the founder and CEO of a company called zeit uh you can all access it through zyde.com before starting this company for hosting JavaScript applications in the cloud I started another company called Cloud up which was acquired by wordpress.com and before that I was known for different open source projects such as Mongoose JS and soccer AO and just contributed to a lot of different node.js projects since we've been using it for many many years

now very cool I think we got you on to talk about now which is uh part of zeit's offering can you kind of announce the premise there what it's about what it does yeah now allows you with just one command appropriately named now to deploy any JavaScript application to the cloud instantly so it doesn't even require for you to set a repository it

doesn't require you for for you to set up any instances in the cloud processes configuration you just run npm install now and then now on any directory that you want to instantly serve to the cloud this uh project name reminds me about a little bit about the problems I have with like Google's go language and trying to now yeah uh for some people also they might remember that there was another uh npm project called now many years ago so we