Microsoft wants you to build for the cloud and has developed a free Node.js course to help learners on their journey.

Node.js offers simplicity without sacrificing performance. It allows developers to use JavaScript for both frontend and backend, which reduces complexity and speeds up development cycles.

Node.js and former Node fork io.js recently released their first combined in a single codebase. InfoQ sat down with Node.js Foundation community manager Mikeal Rogers to find out more.

Because it's simple and scalable, organizations are using Node.js to not only build applications, but to do cloud-based application development and build IaaS and SaaS solutions.