This episode of the HarperDB podcast features Matteo Collina, Core Contributor of Node.js, Lead Maintainer of Fastify, & PhD. Questions covered include:

• Share a bit about you / your background / journey into tech
• How did you become a core contributor of Node.js?
• What's one of your favorite projects you've seen using Node?
• Tell us about Fastify, why are you excited about it?
• Thoughts on Bun?
• What do you love about the open source community? Are there any drawbacks to OSS?
• Looking ahead - predictions for Node & JS in general, what are your goals over the next year?

Matteo is a core contributor of Node.js, an author and a maintainer of many modules - including Fastify and Pino, and conference speaker. See his blog here: https://nodeland.dev/