Presentations

• "Redemption from Callback Hell" (video) introduces how you can avoid the problems of messy callback APIs by using promises
• "Promises, Promises" (video) introduces promises from the ground up, gives an overview of the recent history of promises, and provides some guidance on using promises in your real-world code.
• "Callbacks, Promises, and Coroutines (oh my!)" is a deep dive into asynchronous programming patterns and practices, including introductory material for those new to asynchronous programming.
• "Boom! Promises/A+ Was Born" explains the Promises/A+ zeitgeist.
• "Promises and Generators: Control Flow Utopia" (video) steps through a specific example, showing the pitfalls of callback-based solutions and the benefits promises alone can give you, as well as promises plus ES6 generators.
• "No More Pyramids: Tools to Keep Callbacks Neat" (video) explains how promises and generators can help you with callback hell.
• "The Promised Land" introduces promises and the RSVP.js library, both generally and in an Ember.js context.

Blog Posts

• promisejs.org's Introduction page shows the very basics of using promises.
• "You're Missing the Point of Promises" emphasizes the parallel between sequential synchronous code and promise-based asynchronous code.
• Promises in Node.js with Q – An Alternative to Callbacks (medium version) in-depth dive into promises (as defined by Promises/A+)
• How-to Compose Node.js Promises with Q (medium version) functional programming techniques applied to promises (continuation of above article)
• JavaScript Promises: There and back again gives an introduction to the promise API introduced in ES6
• We have a problem with promises explains many common mistakes and misunderstandings

Podcasts

• JavaScript Jabber #37, by the maintainers of this library, was all about promises and Q.
• NodeUp #46, a "promises by promisers show," was about promises and generators in the Node.js ecosystem.