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The ES2015 revision of JavaScript introduced Promises as primitives for asynchronous operations and generators as primitives for concurrent programming. read less On top of that ES2017/18 added async functions and generators. This talk briefly explores these primitives, and dives into the performance peculiarities of Promises-based programming paradigms. We’…

The FaaS revolution is taking the world by storm. It just so happens that JavaScript has become the lingua franca of the FaaS revolution. read less Customers love the no-ops and ergonomics of this new paradigm. They enable a revolution in developer velocity, allowing engineers to deploy code to production much faster than before. At Netflix, these features a…

You’ve always thought you looked like Marty McFly but your friends say you look like Yoda, take the 80s doppleganger challenge and find out for sure! read less In this talk, I’ll show how to use a little bit of machine learning and serverless tech to build an application that can match faces to their dopplegangers. All written with Angular and Node!

Taron Foxworth wants to translate technology for people to learn, love, and be inspired. Taron is the Lead Technical Evangelist at Losant and an adjunct professor at Xavier University. Taron was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, then relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio. Taron is currently interested in all things food and whiskey, IoT, Blockchain, Node.js, buzz word…

GraphQL is a query language that is rapidly gaining wide adoption across the community. It combines type validation with a query and filtering syntax that makes it easy to get up-and-running with a powerful web API in almost no time. read less Features like running parallel queries or update-all become much easier, because they are first class citizens of Gr…

Three years ago I learned to code. Now I'm a Software Engineer at Condé Nast International in London, writing JS with React and Node. I also organise Node Girls London, which hosts free JavaScript workshops for gender minorities in tech. Have you ever used a third party API, and hated it? You don't have to live with it! I'll be sharing my experience transfor…

CommonJS, along with the npm registry, has become the de-facto standard in Frontend and NodeJS development today. But Native ES Modules are coming to NodeJS and the browser. read less On the surface, they look incredibly similar to CommonJS modules, but the differences are important. In this talk I will describe these differences, the consequences of these d…

James M Snell is a core contributor to Node.js and a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee. He is also an Open Source Architect for nearForm. What's the current state of Node.js core? What's new? What's coming? How is the project doing? This talk will dive deep into the project and highlight everything that is happening.

Kas is a Developer Relations Engineer for IOpipe by day, and a nodebotanist by night. She lives in Austin TX with her amazing partner and two cats. Okay, wait. Didn't we just spend the better part of a decade convincing everyone that JS belonged on servers?! So what's this serverless nonsense and why does it matter to Node.JS? read less The answer involves a…

Senior JS/frontend developer at IBM Cloud Video. Mostly working with a large scale JS codebase or node microservices, focusing on vanilla js, hacking IoT. Organizer of JSConf and CSSConf Budapest. Almost every Node.js developer saw the joke of the huge node_modules folder tearing hole in the space-time continuum, but how many thought of what could be done to…

Did you always want to contribute to Node.js core, but didn't know where to start? Learn how you can use VSCode launch configs to write unit tests quickly - helping improve test coverage of Node.js core and understanding the module you're writing tests for.

With over 600K Node.js modules available on npm, and potentially more than one available to suit your given task - you really can be “spoilt” for choice. read less I will discuss considerations you should take into account before you select a Node.js module. From security to stability, I will show you the potential impact that your choice of module has on yo…

I discuss how Yarn has streamlined the build process for Stroly's Map Viewer technology, and how this has helped us build several features into our map framework, Illustmap. read less This will include a discussion of optimizations made to the build process and tiling for hand drawn maps which can display the position of the user in real time.

About three years ago we started to work on a new garbage collector for V8, codename Orinoco. Orinoco is a high-performance, low-latency, mostly parallel and concurrent garbage collector. read less Instead of developing Orinoco behind a flag, we changed the old V8 garbage collection codebase on the fly and landed its features incrementally to allow developer…

Documentation is critical in creating a successful open source project, yet it can be hard to know where to start. How do you organize your docs? read less What sections do you need? How much detail should you add? What baseline knowledge can you assume your audience has? This talk will walk you through how and why to document a typical JavaScript module in …

Co-talk with Michael Dawson and Mike Kaufman: Diagnostic tooling is a key component for any successful runtime like Node.js and its importance will only increase as production deployments continue to increase rapidly. read less The Node.js community has been working hard on this front over the past years and 2018 is a year even increased focus. Come learn ab…

I will present Commons Host, a static site hosting & CDN service. It is a 100% FOSS product built with new Node.js tools at every layer: core API, edge servers, CLI tooling, frontend bundling, etc. I was fortunate to contribute to the HTTP/2 implementation in Node.js as part of this effort. read less Some of the HTTP/2 specific features include: - Coalesced…

Over the last 2 years, Anna has been one of the most active contributors to Node.js core. Currently pursuing a Master’s degree in mathematics in Germany, she is fueled by a passion for Node and its community. Workers, and threading support in general, have been one of the most frequently requested features for Node.js over the last years. read less Finally, …

Microservices are a well know pattern now, and a popular choice for enterprise applications, especially using Node. But microservice application development can seem daunting. read less How is one supposed to both write an application and also deal with those devOps-y concerns, such as fault tolerance, service-service communication, performance monitoring, t…

As Mozilla's Bugmaster, Emma needs to build dashboards and host them without having to stand up her own servers or VMs. read less She's found that node and a small kit of tools for prototyping and deployment enable her to be responsive to Mozilla's engineering, release, and program management's need for data on bugs. In this talk Emma covers the problem she …

Paul, Gordon and Ahmad will discuss 3 different perspectives on node success, including some of the problems and the challenges