Earlier this week Director of Technology Donovan Buck and Application Developer Carter Cole flew the grand city of San Francisco to attend the Node Summit conference. For those who may not be code ninjas, node.js is a Javscript-based platform built on Google’s V8 Javascript engine, allowing for super scalable applications that can accept a great number of incoming requests for data.

Translation: companies like Microsoft, eBay and Walmart are using node.js to implement Web applications that support an enormous number of simultaneous users, and that leverage open source code to create better products faster. Despite the platform’s youth, it’s obviously becoming code du jour and is Enterprise ready.

Be on the watch for Part Two with an inside scoop with the eyewitness accounts.