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Imagine you’re running a logistics business. Your asset tracking stops working, and the only way for customers to get in touch is via email or phone. As calls and emails pile in, your support team becomes stretched - and customers become frustrated as they have to wait to have their calls taken and emails answered. Now imagine if instead the customer who first experienced the issue could have accessed a live chat service, and easily let your customer service team know what was going on.

Backcountry, the specialty retailer of premium outdoor gear and apparel, shares key lessons on using a modern data stack to overcome data silos, complexities with legacy systems and improve its customer experience.

Data plays a profound role in finance. In fact, some might argue that finance professionals are some of the most data-driven individuals in an organization. That’s because finance data, and the insights you draw from it, can literally make or break a company. This is especially true in times of economic uncertainty, when businesses are trying to make data-driven decisions about where to invest and cut resource allocation.

JavaScript is an Object Oriented Programming language. At least—it can be! Check out this article about how to use Object Oriented Programming concepts to structure your JavaScript code.

NodeSource has been a part of the Node.js ecosystem since 2014, contributing to the open-source project, distributing binaries (over 100m annually!), providing expert Node Services, and building tooling (N|Solid) to support developers to make the best software leveraging Node.js. Every year, we look at the open-source projects we believe are the most interesting and will impact the ecosystem.