Redemption from Callback Hell

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Argues that callback hell is real and shows concrete fixes: Promises as asynchronous values, a Promises A+ spec and test suite that forced correct implementations, and three working libraries—Q, RSVP, when.js—with helpers like denodeify, Q.all and q.async that turn callbacks into promise chains and integrate with ES6 generators. Demonstrates a promise-based HTTP server pattern that propagates errors to a single catch and returns 500s reliably, and reports the spec+tests actually fixed many real bugs.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:01REDEMPTION CALLBACK HELL
3. 7:18IN A CALLBACK, THERE IS NO STACK
4. 11:51THE FUTURE IS ES6 GENERATORS
5. 13:34PROMISES A+
6. 21:58A PROMISE IS AN ASYNCHRONOUS VALUE
7. 22:31THERE ARE 4 BASIC SYNC TO ASYNC TRANSFORMS
8. 29:45OPERATIONS IN SEQUENCE
9. 31:23HANDLING EXCEPTIONS
10. 43:32EXECUTE OPERATIONS IN PARALLEL
11. 45:35BUILD FAULT-TOLERANT SERVERS

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