Node.js Interactive 2015: Full Schedule

7:30am PST

Continental Breakfast

Tuesday December 8, 2015 7:30am - 9:00am PST
Grand Ballroom Foyer

7:45am PST

New Stack Pancakes n' Podcast Breakfast

The New Stack will discuss what makes Node.js work for enterprise customers. The discussion will encompass examples of solutions that have been a success as well as how teams are using Node.js to control IoT devices, implement microservices architecture, develop web applications, run e-commerce sites and serve as the back-end for mobile applications.

Tuesday December 8, 2015 7:45am - 8:45am PST
Pavilion West

Conference Event

9:00am PST

Welcome and Opening Remarks - Mikeal Rogers, Community Manager

Tuesday December 8, 2015 9:00am - 9:05am PST
Grand Ballroom 1&2

Keynote

9:05am PST

Convergence: Evolving Node.js with Open Governance and an Open Community - James Snell, IBM

With the release of Node.js v4.0.0, the node.js and io.js projects resolved their differences and came back together. IBM's James Snell will explore the events that led up to convergence, discuss how the Node.js project has evolved, and will highlight how developers can get involved to help the Node.js core continue to grow and mature.

Speakers

James Snell

Principal Engineer, Cloudflare

James is a core contributor to Node.js, a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, co-chair of the Web-Interoperable Runtimes Community Group, and a principal engineer at Cloudflare working on the Workers runtime.

Tuesday December 8, 2015 9:05am - 9:25am PST
Grand Ballroom 1&2

Keynote

9:25am PST

The World is being Reinvented in Code- Jason Gartner, IBM

The world is being rewritten in code and new innovative ways to reach our consumers are emerging every day, reimagining everything from banking and retail to transportation and healthcare. This is the era of the Digital Transformation. Node.js is at the heart of this transformation and has quickly become the defacto standard for this code and this reinvention. Node.js enables developers to deliver faster and have less code to maintain going forward. At the edge of all this code is one of the oldest, yet revitalized concepts in Computer Science, the API. Developers are composing - writing code, connecting to pipelines of data and integrating APIs. This is the core of the API economy and Node.js is ready to fuel its growth.

Speakers

Jason Gartner

Vice President, Interaction Services Development, IBM

Tuesday December 8, 2015 9:25am - 9:40am PST
Grand Ballroom 1&2

Keynote

9:40am PST

Node.js at Uber - Tom Croucher, Uber

Speakers

Tom Croucher

STAFF ENGINEER at UBER SRE, Uber

Tom Croucher is a Staff Engineer on the Uber Site Reliability Engineering team. Before Uber, he was the CTO at Change.org, consulted for clients like Walmart, Nexenta, MySpace, Comcast, and the New York Times. Tom has co-authored several books, and has contributed to a number... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 9:40am - 9:55am PST
Grand Ballroom 1&2

Keynote

9:55am PST

Node.js and npm by Numbers - Ashley Williams, npm

Every day, there are approximately 2,500,000 npm install events. Each one of those events installs around 50 packages. That's a lot of packages! npm, combined with the power and ease of Node.js's module loading system, has heralded a new age of modular architecture. This talk will walk through some of the fascinating data that npm has been able to collect recently about the node community. We'll make some specific observations about the current node community's behavior inside npm's ecosystem, pointing out critical moments in Node.js's and npm's geneaology. We'll conclude by drawing several interesting implications for the future of node and "the modular way".

Speakers

Ashley Williams

Core Team Member, Rust Foundation

Ashley Williams is the developer community and content manager at npm, Inc. In somany words, it's her problem when you don't understand how npm works. Previouslya backend and services engineer at Mozilla, and a web engineer and educator atBocoup, Ashley has a long history of designing... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 9:55am - 10:10am PST
Grand Ballroom 1&2

Keynote

10:10am PST

Serving the Node.js Enterprise, Thus Serving the Community - Joe McCann, NodeSource

The Node Community. Arguably one of the strongest and most vibrant of any open source project is rapidly expanding and becoming even more inclusive. How? With the rise of enterprise adoption of Node.

Why does this matter for the community? The presentation will cover how a community is not an "us vs. them" scenario but a "we" situation and how serving enterprise needs in return benefits the greater, ever-growing Node community while simultaneously creating an even more diverse group.

Speakers

Joe McCann

CEO, NodeSource

Joe McCann is a cofounder and the CEO of NodeSource Inc., the Enterprise Node.js company providing expert-level services such as support and training while also offering the only premier Enterprise Node.js runtime environment, N|Solid. With more than 15 years of web, mobile and software... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 10:10am - 10:30am PST
Grand Ballroom 1&2

Keynote

10:30am PST

Morning Break and Technology Showcase

Tuesday December 8, 2015 10:30am - 11:00am PST
Plaza Foyer

Conference Event

11:00am PST

Streams and You: A Love Story - Calvin Metcalf, App Geo

Streams are a powerful part of the node.js ecosystem but can also be an intimidating part of node even for programmers who regularly use node. This talk would go over the basic concepts of streams such as pipes and back pressure and how to use them in real word ways with an aim for people to be able to leave the talk and be able to use the internal http module instead of the request module and pipe data around like a plumber.

Speakers

Calvin Metcalf

Cartographer, AppGeo

Web developer, member of the nodejs streams WG, work mainly with geospatial data. Previous talks : "Projections on the web are terrible and you should be ashamed of yourself" https://vimeo.com/106853066

Tuesday December 8, 2015 11:00am - 11:20am PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Backend

11:00am PST

Getting Sassy with Node.js - David Khourshid, Counsyl

Getting anything outside the realm of CSS to play nicely with Sass wasn't always an easy task. Assets such as images, fonts, and even JavaScript files that share styles with stylesheets have always been a pain point in front-end development.

Thankfully, Node-Sass opens the door to creative solutions by allowing JavaScript to be executed within the context of Sass files. This talk will explore in-depth the solutions available and discuss the many problems solved with this capability, from being able to use asset meta information directly in stylesheets to sharing and customizing style data between JavaScript and Sass intuitively. Nearly any JavaScript (NPM, etc.) module can now be used inside Sass stylesheets, and David Khourshid will demonstrate these to highlight its benefits and solved challenges.

Speakers

David Khourshid

Web Developer

David Khourshid is a Florida-based web developer, tech author, and speaker. Also a fervent open-source contributor, he is passionate about JavaScript, CSS, Sass, functional programming, and cutting-edge front-end technologies. He is a frequent speaker at various Orlando JS and CSS... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 11:00am - 11:20am PST
Pavilion West

ClientSide

11:00am PST

Internet of Cats - Rachel White, IBM

Ever lose out on a good night's rest because your pesky cats keep waking you up at 4am for food? Rachel has. Many times. For her first project using node, socket.io, microcontrollers, and johnny-five, Rachel built a web-based feeder that delivers tasty cat chow on a configurable schedule or when triggered remotely. She'll walk you through her learning process with utilizing new tech for the first time and get you excited about trying your own projects so you can take the first steps to putting your work out and contributing to the open source community.

Speakers

Rachel White

Technical Evangelist, Datadog

Rachel White is a technologist, artist, and pretend-cyborg who is currently a Technical Evangelist at Datadog. She is interested in new uses for old hardware, useless robots, VR/AR/MR, and bots. She has spoken internationally about Node.js, JavaScript, Creative Coding, IoT, Artificial... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 11:00am - 11:20am PST
Pavillion East

IoT

11:30am PST

Make Printers Great Again - Thomas Watson, Opbeat

No hardware required: Let’s build a printer using nothing but Node.js. The talk will cover the basic protocols involved and what can be achieved if you (and everybody else) can suddenly send print-jobs to your Node application.

Speakers

Thomas Watson

Principal Software Engineer, Elastic

Thomas Watson is a computer programmer, public speaker, and open source hacker. He works on Application Performance Monitoring at Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash. Thomas has published hundreds of Node modules and mad science projects, he is a Node.js... Read More →

Make Printers Great Again pdf

Tuesday December 8, 2015 11:30am - 11:50am PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Backend

11:30am PST

Real-time Collaboration Sync Strategies - Todd Kennedy, Scripto

The ill-fated Google Wave, and the much more successful Google Docs, are both based on the concept of real-time collaborative document editing, and they both rely on an algorithm to seamlessly merge multiple changes to a single document called Operational Transformation, or "OT." Interest in live collaboration is growing in the Node community, given the ease of creating real-time applications with the evented programming model and packages like socket.io. But a lot of the information available about syncing strategies like OT is hard to understand or fraught with complex math. This talk will explain how to use OT in real applications in straightforward language, and also discuss other systems for coordinating data changes between clients.

Speakers

Todd Kennedy

Todd is the CTO of Scripto; a small start-up creating real-time collaborative television writing software. He has also worked for Condé Nast, re-platforming their Traveler network of sites onto Node, and at MTV Networks/Viacom automating video encoding and delivery. He has spoken... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 11:30am - 11:50am PST
Pavilion West

ClientSide

11:30am PST

JavaScript and the Internet of Things - Andrew Chalkley, Treehouse

Many people in software development get the itch to do more with their skills and hardware is becoming that outlet for them.

It's often said "JavaScript is everywhere", and it's never been more true than it is today. Several crowdfunding efforts have spawned a new market in small, affordable electronic devices that can run JavaScript natively. JavaScript can be used to read from inputs from a wide variety of sensors and can output to all sorts of output devices. Not only that, these devices can be used to talk to web services and pair nicely with your existing back-end skills.

As a hardware-curious developer with all these choices out there it's difficult to navigate the landscape and choose an appropriate solution for your project. This talk will address the pros and cons of each solution and provide you a clear path on the start of your JavaScript hardware adventure.

Speakers

Andrew Chalkley

Expert Teacher, Treehouse

Andrew is a full-time teacher at online education provider Treehouse. He's a polyglot programmer with a passion for hardware. His posts on the hardware platform Arduino have been featured in Hacker Monthly and used in higher educational institutions around the world.

Tuesday December 8, 2015 11:30am - 11:50am PST
Pavillion East

IoT

12:00pm PST

Debugging Node.js in Production - Yunong Xiao, Netflix

Learn about the tools and methodologies we use in production at Netflix to diagnose and fix performance issues, bugs and memory leaks -- all without having to restart or change our Node application. Find out about profiling and post mortem tools such as perf events and mdb, visualizations like flame graphs and latency distributions, and how they help us keep our Node stack efficient.

Speakers

Yunong Xiao

Senior Node.js Software Engineer, Netflix.com

I’m a software engineer at Netflix. I also maintain the open source Node.js framework restify. I have spent stints of my career at AWS and Joyent, respectively, where I worked on distributed systems and helped launch several cloud computing products. I’m especially proud of AWS... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 12:00pm - 12:20pm PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Backend

12:00pm PST

Terminal Output to the Browser in Seconds, Using UNIX Pipes - Kilian Ciuffolo and Luca Orio, Lukibear

Whether you deploy your code on remote servers using multiple environments or simply have multiple projects, you must ssh to each machine running your code, in order to monitor the logs in realtime.

There are many log aggregation tools out there, but few of them are realtime. Most other tools require you to change your application source code to support their logging protocol/transport.

rtail is meant to be a replacement of logio, which isn't actively maintained anymore, doesn't support node v0.12., and uses TCP. (TCP requires strict client / server handshaking, is resource-hungry, and very difficult to scale.)

Speakers

Kilian Ciuffolo

Managing Partner, lukibear, LLC

Currently Managing partner at lukibear, worked at Adobe, and other development firms. I’m Kilian Ciuffolo – a Node.JS addict with more 10 years experience as a full stack developer. I’m particularly passionate about tooling, automation, and optimization of the software... Read More →

Luca Orio

Luca Orio is an award-winning product designer with more than 12 years of experience. His background as a front-end developer allows him to bridge the gap between design and code.He embraces the Lean methodology to face the release cycle and follow the evolution of the product, from... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 12:00pm - 12:20pm PST
Pavilion West

ClientSide

12:20pm PST

Lunch Break

Tuesday December 8, 2015 12:20pm - 1:50pm PST
Portland

Conference Event

12:30pm PST

Developers' Lunch Sponsored by Intel [First 100 Guests, First-come, First-Served]

Developers' Lunch - First-come, first-served. Limit - 100 guests.

Sponsored by Intel. Supporting open source communities for nearly two decades

Tuesday December 8, 2015 12:30pm - 1:30pm PST
Broadway 1 - 3

Conference Event

1:50pm PST

Getting a Handle On Your Dependencies - Dan Silivestru, bitHound

Here at bitHound we’ve analyzed almost all of the npm registry as well as thousands of other projects. We’ve learned some very interesting lessons with regards to managing our own dependencies and gained some great insights with respect to how dependencies are used across the JavaScript community.

This talk will explore:
-How worried we should be about security vulnerabilities
-The percentage of your production code that can actually be considered “your own”
-The increasing prevalence of “Glue Code”
-Best practices for dependencies management
-How can we take responsibility for these issues and how we can make things better as a community

Speakers

Dan Silivestru

Co-founder & CEO, bitHound

Dan Silivestru is a seasoned entrepreneur with close to 20 years of experience in Software Development and Technology. Under the role of co-founder and CTO, Dan’s previous company tinyHippos was acquired by BlackBerry in 2011. Following his time at BlackBerry, Dan served as Executive... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 1:50pm - 2:10pm PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Backend

1:50pm PST

Plumbing the Depths of Handlebars - Ryan Lewis, Expedia

Handlebars is an essential templating tool in every web developer’s toolbelt. It has become the default choice for many frameworks and platforms. Users around the world love how easy it makes dynamic templating on the client and server with JavaScript.
But how much can be really said about the library? With a dead simple API and small set of features, most developers never get to know the library intimately. It’s secrets lay undiscovered but in the open. An open source mystery!
Ryan Lewis has plumbed those depths in the course of researching his Pluralsight course “JavaScript Templating with Handlebars” and he’s boiled down the lessons learned into a convenient 15 item list! Each item showcases some insight or secret that will make developers say “Wow!”

Speakers

Ryan Lewis

Software Engineer, Expedia

Ryan Lewis is a Web Engineer who specializes in JavaScript. He started building websites over 15 years ago to support his bands and record label. After traveling around the world playing music, he brought his talents to the Pacific Northwest. He has used open-source technologies... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 1:50pm - 2:10pm PST
Pavilion West

ClientSide

1:50pm PST

Hands on Hardware Workshop with Tessel - Kelsey Breseman, Tessel Project

Come and learn to hack on hardware with Node! Whether you've never touched hardware before or you're experienced with electronics, this workshop will let you use Node to build interactions with the physical world. You will be able to build something interesting in the allotted time. Kelsey will provide assistance, tools, and ideas.

Speakers

Kelsey Breseman

Attendee, Head Weaver

Tlingit, forest person, engineer, and activist. Working on climate research & communication on tribal lands with Sealaska and The Nature Conservancy. Always interested in how tech tools and the stories we tell shift the balance of power.

Tuesday December 8, 2015 1:50pm - 2:10pm PST
Pavillion East

IoT

2:20pm PST

Building and Engaging High Performance Teams in the Node.js Ecosystem - Chanda Dharap, StrongLoop Inc, an IBM Company

There are many dimensions to building and working with teams in the Node.js stack. Hiring is one of the challenges, but hiring isn’t the only issue when moving development to the Nodejs stack. Some of the challenges are around understanding the open source culture - the passion for code hygenie and peer reviews, the semantics of versioning, and the ease with which the community updates to every latest version is unique.

The fast pace and prolific nature of StrongLoop’s module ecosystem forced us to recognize and optimize practices around tools, and processes needed to maintain over 150 repositories all packaged into a solution targeted at Enterprise.

In this talk, Chanda Dharap will share our learning around People, Process and Technology and some of the best practices we’ve evolved around managing start-up style product delivery with fungible teams.

Speakers

Chanda Dharap

Heading Engineering, StrongLoop Inc, An IBM Company

Leading teams, open source development in the Node.js stack. Specifically, Strongloop’s diverse delivery teams to execute on the technical roadmap with predictability, agility and quality. Managing the chaos and challenges that come with an exponentially growing startup in the open... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 2:20pm - 2:40pm PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Backend

2:20pm PST

Modernizing Winston for Node.js v4 - Charlie Robbins, GoDaddy

Winston is the most popular logging library for node. Released in early 2011, it is almost old as node itself. Yet its popularity persists with over 2M monthly downloads and over 200 community contributed packages.

Over the years it has evolved as node and JavaScript have mature as platforms. Did you know that when winston was written there was no streams implementation as we know it today? And certainly no streams2 or streams3 specification. There were no good code coverage tools and mocha didn't even exist yet! But what's most want to know is how winston is better.

This talk will cover the road to winston@3.0.0 and highlight how the module ecosystem has evolved along side through hard work of a handful of dedicated core contributors, careful API design, utilizing ES6 features since node@0.12.x, and practical benchmarking and analysis.

Speakers

Charlie Robbins

Senior Director, Engineering, Charlie Robbins

Charlie is a Senior Director of Engineering at GoDaddy where he is leading convergence around JavaScript and Node.js across several products through the UX Platform team. Charlie was previously the founder and CEO of Nodejitsu (acquired by GoDaddy in 2015). An open source enthusiast... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 2:20pm - 2:40pm PST
Pavilion West

ClientSide

2:20pm PST

The State of Electron - Max Ogden, Jessica Lord, DAT Project

Speakers

Max Ogden

Professional Module Publisher, DAT DATA

Max Ogden is a computer programmer from Portland, Oregon working on the Dat Project, providing open source tools for scientific data reproducibility. Dat is part of a non-profit called US Open Data and is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan foundation.

Tuesday December 8, 2015 2:20pm - 2:40pm PST
Pavillion East

IoT

2:50pm PST

Go Ahead, Roll Your Own Framework - Ryan Stevens, LendingClub

Engineers are continually told throughout their career to not reinvent the wheel. Frameworks allow engineers to concentrate on domain specific logic and not worry about writing boilerplate code. But have you ever wondered why there are so many to choose from? Many of these frameworks have huge variances in design choices, patterns they enforce developers adhere to, and wildly dogmatic followers… Until a new one comes along and people justify yet another framework rewrite in the name of superior technology.

This talk will journey into the sometimes taboo subject of creating your own framework. Embracing a home grown framework can have its merits under the right circumstances and is worth exploring. This talk places an emphasis on valuing the process and understanding how it can bring out the best in a team with a diverse set of skills and backgrounds.

Speakers

Ryan Stevens

Director of Engineering, Lending Club

Ryan began his career building enterprise core systems to run banks and credit unions. It was there Ryan helped implement a rules engine using the Rhino JavaScript runtime and saw the power of running JavaScript on the server. When Ryan started building complex Node.js applications... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 2:50pm - 3:10pm PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Backend

2:50pm PST

Making Your Node.js Applications Debuggable - Patrick Mueller, NodeSource

No one writes perfect code. Everyone makes mistakes. The only question is, how easy is to find your mistakes? This presentation will cover tools and techniques you can use to make it easier to diagnose problems with your applications.

background for program committee: I plan going over general techniques like linting, testing, logging, as well as node-specific stuff like node-inspector, v8 cpu profiling, and heap snapshots. For the node-specific stuff, will show the basic tools, along with some coding patterns when using them. Live demos of tools and techniques.

Speakers

Patrick Mueller

Patrick is a Senior Node Engineer at NodeSource. He works on products that help shine light into the dark corners of the node.js runtime. Before that, Patrick worked at IBM for 30 years on a diverse set of technologies: from mainframe to desktop to mobile systems, development tooling... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 2:50pm - 3:10pm PST
Pavilion West

ClientSide

2:50pm PST

IoT Lock Down - Adam Englander, LaunchKey, Inc.

The Internet of Things is an emerging sector that has adopted Node.js. Intel has a default Node.js app that runs by default on it's Edison chip. Unfortunately, that sector is better at writing C and assembly for integrated circuits than writing secure APIs for communicating with the outside world. This talk will discuss best practices for securing communication via an exposed API on a device with limited processing power as well as some real life demonstrations using Node.js on an Intel Edison chip.

Speakers

Adam Englander

Director of Engineering, LaunchKey, Inc.

I am a software developer and architect with over thirty years of experience developing software for startups to Fortune 500 companies and everything in between. I strongly believes in developer communities and focus a considerable amount of energy in ensuring that developers can... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 2:50pm - 3:10pm PST
Pavillion East

IoT

3:10pm PST

Afternoon Break and Technology Showcase

Tuesday December 8, 2015 3:10pm - 3:40pm PST
Plaza Foyer

Conference Event

3:40pm PST

Reaching Ludicrous Speed - Matteo Collina, nearForm

How can our code be faster? What does faster means? In this journey we would walk through different performance optimization techniques you can apply to your code. We will see start from --v8-options, and we will discover how to leverage what v8 tells us to optimize our code. We will discuss hidden classes, function optimizations and deoptimizations, and inlining. We will discuss the tools and the libraries you can use to do perf analysis on your code. In this journey, we will discover that the main villain is Lord GC, and we will fight him to reclaim our memory! At the very end, we would reach a point where even allocating a callback is too slow: Ludicrous Speed.

Speakers

Matteo Collina

Technical Director, NearForm

Matteo is Technical Director at NearForm, where he consults for the top brands in the world. In 2014, he defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Application Platforms for the Internet of Things". Matteo is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee focusing on streams, diagnostics... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 3:40pm - 4:00pm PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Backend

3:40pm PST

Carpentry with Duktape - Tyler Brock, Hustle Inc.

Have you ever wanted to laugh like a maniac as you put a Javascript interpreter somewhere it has no business being? Learn how! In this presentation we will take a look at the Duktape interpreter with Tyler Brock, a former MongoDB kernel engineer, and use it to make something fun by jamming JavaScript into yet another place it shouldn't be.

Speakers

Tyler Brock

CTO, Hustle Inc.

Currently CTO of Hustle, Inc. Graduated from Duke University with degrees in Economics and Computer Science. Previously CTO of ReadrBoard (now Antenna) and database platform engineer on kernel team at MongoDB. Lover of JavaScript and distributed Systems.

Tuesday December 8, 2015 3:40pm - 4:00pm PST
Pavilion West

ClientSide

3:40pm PST

JavaScript for IoTivity - Sakari Poussa, Intel

Iotivity is an open source project implementing the Open Interconnect (OIC) specification, which enables IoT devices to discover and interact with each other. In the near future we hope to see first OIC compliant devices to hit the market. Iotivity project has many language bindings (APIs) including C, C+ and Java. Unfortunately, JavaScript is not included – yet.

In this presentation Sakari will talk about Intel’s efforts to create Iotivity JS APIs for Node.JS. The implementation is, open source, native node module using the V8 interfaces (and Nan) to bind the JS to the C based Iotivity stack. Sakari will also talk about the OIC REST APIs, which allows cloud and mobile applications to participate to the OIC compliant ecosystem.

Finally, Sakari will make few suggestions for the node community, which would make such IoT APIs easier to develop and deploy.

Speakers

Sakari Poussa

Software Architect, Intel

Sakari Poussa is a software architect in Intel’s Open Source Technology Center located in Espoo, Finland, leading web and IoT technology development. Previous to joining Intel, Sakari directed the software engineering efforts of Nokia’s Linux-based mobile operating systems (Maemo... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 3:40pm - 4:00pm PST
Pavillion East

IoT

4:10pm PST

FrontendFS: Creating a Filesystem for Web Development Using Node.js - Clay Smith, New Relic

Writing filesystems is for everyone, not just systems engineers.

This talk introduces the open-source project FrontendFS, a filesystem written in Node.js that provides a file and directory abstraction on top of front-end build tasks. Using the Linux FUSE library, modifying files on a mounted FrontendFS filesystem triggers build processes in the background so something as easy as dragging and dropping files into a directory can immediately minify and gzip a JavaScript file.

Starting with a high-level introduction to filesystems, this talk will cover the architecture of virtual filesystems in Linux written using FUSE Node.js bindings and important performance considerations. The talk will focus on the power, creativity and simplicity of building open-source virtual filesystems in Linux.

Speakers

Clay Smith

Developer Advocate, New Relic

Clay Smith is a Developer Advocate at New Relic in San Francisco. He previously has worked at early-stage software companies as a senior software engineer, including founding the mobile engineering team at a PagerDuty and shipping one of the first iOS apps written in Swift. He has... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 4:10pm - 4:30pm PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Backend

4:10pm PST

Building Twitter Bots in Node.js - Philip James, Eventbrite

Want to make an online art project with built-in sharing? Or give your IoT project a presence without building a full web interface? Twitter bots provide an amazing level of satisfaction for relatively little effort and code, if you know how to get started and how to get your bot running.

This presentation will explore how to get a twitter bot started, tips and tricks for working with the twitter api and client libraries, how to easily get your bot's credentials for posting to twitter, and how to get your bot deployed and posting easily.

Speakers

Philip James

Head of Engineering, Trim

Philip is the Head of Engineering at Trim, Core Contributor to the BeeWare project, and Editor-in-chief of Adult Juice Box. He frequently speaks at conferences and drinks wine, although so far has never done both at the same time. He lives in Alameda with his partner Nic.

Tuesday December 8, 2015 4:10pm - 4:30pm PST
Pavilion West

ClientSide

4:10pm PST

IoT Services Orchestration Layer – Helps You Create IoT Apps in Minutes - Jonathan Ding, Intel

IoT Services Orchestration Layer is a Node.js based distributed middleware for developing and hosting IoT applications that orchestrates multiple physical or virtual things, cloud services and HTML5 UI components.

The middleware provides a HTML5 based graphical programming IDE so developers can easily compose both business logic (simple to complicated workflows) and user interfaces via drag-and-drop without the need to write a single line of code. Such logic and UI are executed by the middleware developed with Node.js and all complexities (e.g. discovery, remote communication, asynchronous etc.) are handled for developers.

In this presentation, Jonathan will demonstrate how easy it is to create distributed IoT applications in minutes with this middleware, introduce its architecture and related innovations, and discuss its future roadmap.

Speakers

Jonathan Ding

Jonathan Ding is Principal Engineer from the Software and Services Group (SSG) of Intel Corporation. He currently is the chief architect that leads Intel’s efforts on optimizations and innovations in Web domain for mobile and IoT.

Tuesday December 8, 2015 4:10pm - 4:30pm PST
Pavillion East

IoT

4:40pm PST

Lessons Learned: Extending Node.js with Another JavaScript Engine - Arunesh Chandra, Microsoft

At Microsoft, Node.js represents a true cross platform technology that is enabling solutions ranging from cloud computing to Internet of Things and beyond. Microsoft’s Chakra team started an initiative to support Chakra, Microsoft’s own Javascript engine, as an alternative VM for Node.js. Although maybe still surprising to someone, all of the work that our team has done to enable this support is being done in the open, wherein not only is the code open source but we have been actively looking for community feedback and participation to learn and improve. In this session we’ll discuss some of the learnings we had during the process, and in particular talk about:
• What motivated us to support Node.js with another VM?
• What key challenges the team met along the way to support a different VM and how we overcame the same?
• Where are we with the current support and what’s next?

Speakers

Arunesh Chandra

Sr. Program Manager, Microsoft

Arunesh Chandra, is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft working on Chakra, the JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge, and Node Tools for Visual Studio. He is currently working on supporting Chakra’s integration with Node.js and helping improve the development tools for... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 4:40pm - 5:00pm PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Backend

4:40pm PST

Rapid Development of Data Mining Applications in Node.js - Blaz Fortuna, AI Lab, Jozef Stefan Institute

Node.js and its ecosystem enable fast and easy development of applications. However, data analytics components typically require external tools such as Apache Storm or Spark. In this presentation Blaž Fortuna and Jan Rupnik will present how to use or develop scalable data mining components directly from Node.js using open-source modules. This will be presented through two large-scale use-cases: topic and sentiment classification on Twitter and real-time user profiling. Use-cases cover different data modalities (text, social networks, streams), transformations (feature extraction) and algorithms (classification, recommendation). The core enabler for this are open-source modules that allow Node.js developers to perform fast numeric computation and data processing close to the hardware directly from JavaScript.

Speakers

Blaz Fortuna

Researcher, AI Lab, Jozef Stefan Institute

Blaž Fortuna is a research consultant for Bloomberg L.P. New York and a senior researcher at Jožef Stefan Institute, working at the intersection of data mining, text and stream analytics, and statistical learning. He is the initiator and a major contributor to QMiner (https://github.com/qminer/qminer... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 4:40pm - 5:00pm PST
Pavilion West

ClientSide

4:40pm PST

Intel XDK IoT Edition & Bluetooth Low Energy - Elroy Ashtian, Intel

Intel XDK IoT Edition is a comprehensive IDE for developers who wish to use their Node.js expertise to build applications for Internet of Things solutions as well as their HTML5 skills for hybrid mobile apps. This IDE provides the ability to remotely upload, debug, and run your Node.js applications on Intel IoT platforms (Intel® Edison and Intel® Galileo boards). During this presentation, Elroy will demonstrate how to leverage Intel XDK IoT Edition for Node.js application development and its features. He will also present the HTML5 application development workflow of Intel XDK IoT Edition for developing companion app that uses Bluetooth Low Energy to communicate with the IoT device.

Speakers

Elroy Ashtian

Web Developer

Elroy Ashtian, Jr. works as a software engineer in the Developer Products Division within the Software & Services Group (SSG) at Intel Corporation. He is a member of Intel XDK team. His role includes software tools definition, evangelism, support and development of mobile and embedded/internet... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 4:40pm - 5:00pm PST
Pavillion East

IoT

5:10pm PST

Stellar Module Management - David Dias, Protocol Labs

Have you ever been stuck downloading a module you already have? Have you ever been stuck without internet, unable to npm install when all the modules you need are stored in your coworkers' computers in the same LAN? Well no more! With the IPFS companion for npm, you get (a) distributed discovery: install modules seamlessly from any other computer you can reach; (b) cryptographic versioning: never install the same version twice; (c) free deduplication: don't download or store the same things multiple times.

npm-over-ipfs uses IPFS (the InterPlanetary Filesystem), a new file distribution protocol. IPFS is like Git meets Bittorrent; it is perfect for Node.js modules, it enables devs to have local caches, work offline or work in LANs, and use modules present in nearby machines.

Speakers

David Dias

Peer-2-Peer Software Engineer, Protocol Labs

I consider myself to be one from many™ lucky bastards™ that found their opportunity to work with the most hard working and passionate people in humbling and encouraging endeavours such as LXJS, the Lisbon Javascript Conference, Startup Scholarship the first startup internship... Read More →

nodejs interactive pdf

Tuesday December 8, 2015 5:10pm - 5:30pm PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Backend

5:10pm PST

Server-Side Rendering Isn’t Enough - Matthew Phillips, Phillips

Since Node came onto the scene developers have been looking for ways to share code between the server and client. First with just models, later templates, and today with the full view. We’ll explore how we can improve on code reuse by providing more than view rendering. We will take a look at: how to share a common router, CSS generation (including returning only the CSS needed for the requested page), and inlining of data. All of these components are just as important in our quest for achieving a single, shared, and seamless code base between server and client.

Speakers

Matthew Phillips

JavaScript Engineer, Bitovi

Matthew is a full time open source developer with Bitovi working on simplifying workflows for creating large JavaScript projects. Matthew is a core contributor to DoneJS which encompasses CanJS, StealJS, and more than a dozen other projects, including can-ssr. Previously Matthew spoke... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 5:10pm - 5:30pm PST
Pavilion West

ClientSide

5:10pm PST

Home Automation with Node.js and MQTT - Michael Dawson, IBM

MQTT ia a machine-to-machine Internet of Things protocol which fits perfectly with the asynchronous model provided by Node. This talk will introduce MQTT, show how it can be easily used with Node and will illustrate the fun you can have interacting with the real world from Node by going through code snippets of an open source Node based home alarm system(https://github.com/mhdawson/HomeAlarm).

The alarm uses Node for control and status display, MQTT as the communication backbone and Raspberry PI and docker for deployment. The alarm has door and motion sensors to sense entry, alarm notifications through SMS messages, and captures and publishes pictures to the cloud on demand and in alarm situations.

Speakers

Michael Dawson

Node.js Community Lead, IBM

Michael Dawson is an active contributor to the Node.js project and chair of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee(TSC). He contributes to a broad range of community efforts including platform support, build infrastructure, N-API, Release, as well as tools to help the community... Read More →

Tuesday December 8, 2015 5:10pm - 5:30pm PST
Pavillion East

IoT

5:30pm PST

Booth Crawl

Tuesday December 8, 2015 5:30pm - 7:00pm PST
Level 2 Foyer

Conference Event

7:15pm PST

Evening Event at Punch Bowl sponsored by IBM

The evening event is open to all attendees and offers an opportunity to continue discussions, collaboration, and networking. Dinner and drinks will be provided. The venue is just a short 5 minute walk from the Hilton Portland, located within Pioneer Place.

Thank you to our evening event sponsor, IBM!

Tuesday December 8, 2015 7:15pm - 10:00pm PST
Punch Bowl Social

Evening Event

7:30am PST

Continental Breakfast

Wednesday December 9, 2015 7:30am - 9:00am PST
Plaza Foyer

Conference Event

9:00am PST

Resource Management in Node.js - Bradley Meck, NodeSource

Node.js has immense strength when it comes to routing resources between each other. One of the ways that this impressive coordination has progressed is through asynchronous callbacks, and streaming. As with any abstraction, there is a need to safely ensure the abstraction does not cause leaks in resource management. In this presentation, Bradley Meck will discuss basic tools for checking resource usage, using generators to create safe resource life-cycles, using callbacks to track resource invalidation, and techniques to handle cancellation of requests that hold onto resources.

Speakers

Bradley Meck

GoDaddy

Employed at NodeSource, Bradley likes to work on tooling for Node.js and is actively seeking to improve debugging and analysis tools for programs.

Wednesday December 9, 2015 9:00am - 9:20am PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Backend

9:00am PST

Rebuilding the Ship as it Sails: Making Large Legacy Sites Responsive - Philip James, Eventbrite

Yes, making sites responsive can be a pain, especially larger, older sites that have been touched by many hands and which might have dark corners that people would prefer to avoid. But we all know how crucial it is to make more and more of our work responsive, and there are things you can do to make big pushes towards responsiveness easier. This talk will cover:

- The problem of making large sites responsive
- Techniques you can use in planning to help divide the work in a sane way
- Tools you can use and develop to make responsifying pages easier
- Tips on how to train all your engineers, backend, frontend, and otherwise, to be able to make pages responsive.

These lessons will be drawn from the example of Eventbrite, who went through a major responsive overhaul last year.

Speakers

Philip James

Head of Engineering, Trim

Wednesday December 9, 2015 9:00am - 9:20am PST
Pavilion West

ClientSide

9:00am PST

NodeBots at Scale - Matteo Collina, nearForm

The NodeBots movement aims to help everybody control robots with Node, but all the examples online focus on controlling a single machine. At NodeConf.eu we built 4 robots that were able to serve 134 cocktails in 1 hour and a half. They were all wifi controlled and we are able to order drinks from our smartphones. In the process, we fried 2 Raspberry Pi2, fried 4 transistors, burned two fingers, live deployed bug-fixes but ultimately made four robots that could serve 2 drinks each. For this scaled-up prototype, we used Johnny-Five, MQTT.js, some other popular JS libraries (express, socket.io, and many others), we open sourced all our code and our blueprints, so you can build one yourself! This is the story of this journey, from inception to the event.

Speakers

Matteo Collina

Technical Director, NearForm

Wednesday December 9, 2015 9:00am - 9:20am PST
Pavillion East

IoT

9:30am PST

Node.js API Pitfalls: Can You Spot Them? - Sam Roberts, Strongloop

It’s quiz time. What would you expect to get back from a call to url.encode? The answer may surprise you. This session will be a walk through some of the pitfalls in the Node.js core API, how to avoid them, and a discussion of whether they can or should be fixed. Sam will discuss why these APIs behave the way they do and how they might be changed, along with the arguments for keeping them the same.

The session will conclude with thoughts on Node.js core API stability, including who it helps, who it hurts, and whether as a community we should value improving the core API for the benefit of emerging users over keeping it stable for the benefit of existing users and their existing code bases.

Speakers

Sam Roberts

Strongloop

Sam Roberts is a Node/Ops developer at StrongLoop, an IBM Company, and Node.js collaborator and core committer. He started development on control kernels in C++ for remotely operated submersibles, moved onto developing toolkits in C, Lua, and Ruby for network and cryptographic protocols... Read More →

Wednesday December 9, 2015 9:30am - 9:50am PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Backend

9:30am PST

NPM Everywhere - Mike MacCana, CertSimple

npm everywhere: all the things we wish we'd known earlier. This talk is a look at a real world production app using
npm on the front end, npm on the back end, and npm for all code - no lib dirs, no anything else. Including:

- Benefits of using modules for your own original code
- Benefits of using npm for front end developers
- Including non-JavaScript code in your bundles
- Tools to analyse and reduce frontend bundle size
- Ensuring repeatable deploys
- Reducing module fatigue

Speakers

Mike MacCana

Founder, CertSimple

Mike's a London-based node.js, front end JavaScript, Python and Linux person, who likes both SystemTap and Sass. He's the 'mikem' in the Red Hat sudoers file, maintains the Command Line Rosetta Stone, and has built web apps for Google, Microsoft, and Adobe. He's now attempting to... Read More →

Wednesday December 9, 2015 9:30am - 9:50am PST
Pavilion West

ClientSide

9:30am PST

Home Automation with Node.js and RasperryPi - Mariano Campo, MercadoLibre

Building your own home automation system has never been easier with Node 4.x landing with ARM support.
In this presentation Mariano will explain how you can build a central hub for any home automation device you can think of. All you need is a RaspberryPi and your good old friend Node.js.
Mariano will cover an architecture based on a central hub talking to multiple smaller devices (arduino based, for example), all securely accessed from an interface deployed in the cloud.

Speakers

Mariano Campo

30 years old. Systems Engineer degree ("Universidad Tecnológica Nacional", Argentina). Strong passion for software development. Extensive background with Java and the web platform, also worked with mobile platforms, Python and .Net. Currently working for MercadoLibre (largest e-commerce... Read More →

Wednesday December 9, 2015 9:30am - 9:50am PST
Pavillion East

IoT

9:50am PST

Morning Break and Technology Showcase

Wednesday December 9, 2015 9:50am - 10:20am PST
Plaza Foyer

Conference Event

10:20am PST

Peer-to-Peer Numeric Computing with JavaScript - Athan Reines, Verbify, Inc.

Traditionally, if you wanted to write fast code for numeric computation, you used Fortran or C. Within the past two decades, we have seen an enormous shift toward languages which favor expressiveness over absolute speed. Much of scientific computing is now performed using dynamic, loosely typed languages, such as R or Python. Taking into account JavaScript's expressiveness, why not do your computing in Node? In this talk, Athan Reines will discuss numeric computation in JavaScript, libraries currently available, and what makes these libraries competitive with and even superior to alternatives on other platforms. He will discuss how to leverage Node libraries when building P2P compute applications, culminating in a demo showcasing WebRTC and RPC over a peer network. Finally, he will outline future steps and identify opportunities for community development of next-generation tools.

Speakers

Athan Reines

Software Engineer, Independent

Athan Reines is a full-stack engineer and data scientist. He has a PhD in Physics, where he used machine learning and time series analytics to probe biological systems at the nanoscale. He currently works full-time on open source projects to facilitate numeric computing in Node.js... Read More →

Wednesday December 9, 2015 10:20am - 10:50am PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Backend

10:20am PST

Node.js Intl: Where We Are and What's Next - Steven Loomis, IBM

Node.js v0.12 - and once again v3.1 after the merge - supports the "Intl" object out of the box for the Ecma-402 Internationalization API. What is Internationalization? Why is it important for developers?

This presentation will give a very brief history of the efforts to improve internationalization in JavaScript in general and Node.js in particular, including the work of the Node.js Intl working group. It will give you some resources and best practices you can use now, as well as look at what's next in the world of Node Intl.

Speakers

steven loomis

Senior Software Engineer, IBM

Steven R. Loomis, a member of IBM's Global Foundations Technology Team for nearly 20 years, is the chair of the Node Intl WG, IBM's Tech Lead for the ICU4C/C++ Unicode library, IBM's primary representative to Unicode-TC and chair of the ULI-TC. He was a cofounder of the Unicode Common... Read More →

Wednesday December 9, 2015 10:20am - 10:50am PST
Pavilion West

ClientSide

10:20am PST

Node.js Development for the Next Generation of IoT - Melissa Evers-Hood and Paul Cooper, Intel

As usage models, functionality and form factors explode in IoT, node.js development is flexing and evolving rapidly. We’d like to discuss what is working well, what are the challenges, where are the community work arounds and what needs to be addressed for node.js to be the project to fuel the next decade of IoT innovation.

Speakers

Paul Cooper

Intel

Melissa Evers

Vice President & General Manager, Strategy to Execution, Software and Advanced Technology Group, Intel Corporation

Melissa E. Evers is vice president iand general manager of Software Business and Ecosystme Strategy at Intel Corporation. Her responsibilities span defining software strategies and driving to execution collaborating with entities across Intel. Based in Portland, Oregon, Evers leads... Read More →

Wednesday December 9, 2015 10:20am - 10:50am PST
Pavillion East

IoT

10:50am PST

Microservice Developer Experience - Peter Elger, nearForm

Whilst micro-service based architectures promise many benefits in production, such as rapid continuous deployment cycles, current developer tools are lagging behind. Irrespective of platform our current toolchains are very much oriented around the construction of monolithic application stacks and are unwieldy and cumbersome when applied to micro-service based systems. This talk will demonstrate a dynamic and responsive developer toolchain
for micro-services that is more aligned with this architectural style, with live coding examples and deployment through to staging.

This talk will cover the tools that nearForm use to develop micro-services in the wild, something we've discovered and iterated on over the last three years.

Speakers

Peter Elger

Director of Engineering, nearForm

Peter Elger is Director of Engineering with nearForm, a Node.js consultancy - http://nearform.com. Formerly, a physicist working on the JET nuclear fusion research project, Peter has been co-founder and CTO of two companies prior to nearForm and holds degrees in theoretical physics... Read More →

Wednesday December 9, 2015 10:50am - 11:10am PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Backend

10:50am PST

Offline-First Apps with PouchDB - Bradley Holt, IBM Cloudant

Web and mobile apps shouldn't stop working when there's no network connection. Based on Apache CouchDB, PouchDB is an open source syncing JavaScript database that runs within a web browser. Offline-first apps that use PouchDB can provide a better, faster user experience—both offline and online.

Learn how to build offline-enabled responsive mobile web apps using the HTML5 Offline Application Cache and PouchDB. We’ll also discuss how to build cross-platform apps or high-fidelity prototypes using PouchDB, Cordova, and Ionic. PouchDB can also be run within Node.js and on devices for Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

This talk includes code examples for creating a PouchDB database, creating a new document, updating a document, deleting a document, querying a database, synchronization PouchDB with a remote database, and live updates to a user interface based on database changes.

Speakers

Bradley Holt

Developer Advocate, IBM Cloud Data Services

Bradley Holt is a Developer Advocate with IBM Cloud Data Services. He is the author of several publications including Scaling CouchDB and Writing and Querying MapReduce Views in CouchDB (both published by O'Reilly Media). He has spoken at numerous conferences including the O'Reilly... Read More →

Wednesday December 9, 2015 10:50am - 11:10am PST
Pavilion West

ClientSide

10:50am PST

Node.js While Crafting - Make Textile to Compute! - Mariko Kosaka, Scripto

From a textile loom to a desktop computer; the stitches in your garment and the letters on your screen are both the result of operations executed on data. As a web engineer, I never wondered what the data looked like to computers.

Then I started a craft project to convert graphics into knit patterns for an electric knitting machine. Little did I know, I was researching the origins of computer: textile looms operated by punch cards. By knitting fabric, I learned to give instructions to a machine with just 2 signals. I discovered what a 'bit' really is, in my scarf! This tactile experience with binary made everything in my JavaScript work much clearer.

I'd like to share my learning from making "Node.js app for craft" (8 bit punch card computer with Arduino + Jhonny-Five + Socket.io with web interface) It involves JS Robotics, Websockets, Canvas, and electron.js to tie all together.

Speakers

Mariko Kosaka

Textile Engineer, Scripto

Mariko Kosaka is an engineer who loves data and knitting. When she is not making software at Scripto, she uses code to help her design textiles & organize local javascrict meetup in New York City called BrooklynJS.

Wednesday December 9, 2015 10:50am - 11:10am PST
Pavillion East

IoT

11:20am PST

How to Build and Deploy Open Source Application Monitoring Solutions - Chris Bailey, IBM

Even the most innovative and groundbreaking applications risk failure if they do not provide an engaging and responsive user experience. Performance and scalability both require access to real-time performance data that lets developers optimize code, allows the infrastructure to scale automatically, enables operations teams to identify issues, and gives business owners insights into the success of the application.

This session will show you how to add application performance monitoring and analytics capabilties to your application, using the open source Node Application Metrics data collector, alongside open source monitoring stacks like StatsD with Graphite, and Elasticsearch with Kibana.

Speakers

Chris Bailey

Monitoring and Diagnostics Architect, IBM

Chris is the Monitoring and Diagnostics Architect in the Runtime Technologies team at IBM, contributing to Node.js and Java runtimes. There he works on application visibility, allowing developers to optimize code, infrastructure to scale, operations teams to manage, and business owners... Read More →

Wednesday December 9, 2015 11:20am - 11:50am PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Backend

11:20am PST

Building Interactive npm Command Line Modules -- All The Things. - Irina Shestak

Here you are coding away, when you realize you're in desperate need of a quick shell script to get your project cleaned up. You're standing at a fork in the road: Bash or Node? You choose the road less travelled by (for some reason) -- Node. I congratulate you on this decision. You've written it, you may have published it, and it certainly works. But what now? Is this all a command line module Node is good for: a project clean up and some data manipulation?

Let's take it a step further. Let's make a command line module that's more than just your compiling script. I am, of course, talking about making it more interactive.

In this talk Irina wants to take you on an adventure that will require cunning, bravery, and maybe some magic. We will walk through obtaining and parsing data, using Node's process functions, and finally improving your module's user experience.

Speakers

Irina Shestak

Fullstack Engineer, MongoDB

Irina is a Berlin via London via Vancouver software developer who is, oh hey, hello, really into node.js. On the reg, she writes javascript for MongoDB's Compass team and maintains a few open source projects. Irina was fortunate to speak at conferences all over the world, including... Read More →

Wednesday December 9, 2015 11:20am - 11:50am PST
Pavilion West

ClientSide

11:20am PST

V8 Engine of Node.js on IA: JavaScript-JITTED x86 Machine Code Mapping Profiling Support and X87 Quark Processor Enabling - Chunyang Dai, Intel

V8 is one of the major building blocks of node.js as its JavaScript execution engine, which is key component to make sure different architecture and ISA’s node compatibility. During this presentation, Chunyang Dai will introduce Intel’s ISA related work on V8 for node.js on 2 major parts. 1) How Intel’s enhancement on V8 and node.js can profile node.js application’s performance via mapping JavaScript source to x86 machine generated by V8 engine Just In Time (JIT) inside Intel Vtune performance analyzer 2) How Intel works on V8 JavaScript engine’s X87 port which makes sure the none-SSE Intel architecture (e.g. Quark processor inside Galileo which only has X87 math co-processor) to guarantee that stable release of node.js 0.12/4.0/future is still able to run on top of Galileo.

Speakers

Chunyang Dai

Developer Advocate, New Relic

Chunyang Dai is a software engineer from Intel, who has 10+ years of experience on virtual machine on top of Intel Architecture, e.g. JavaEE/XML/JavaScript engine. Now Chunyang Dai works on V8 JavaScript as a V8 committer, mainly on V8’s Performance/memory turning and V8 X87 port... Read More →

Wednesday December 9, 2015 11:20am - 11:50am PST
Pavillion East

IoT

11:50am PST

Node.js Performance Optimization Case Study - Bryce Baril, NodeSource

There are great tools available for performance optimization of Node.js code, but it's not always clear when or how to use them.

In this session, Bryce Baril will present a case study to demonstrate some useful Node.js performance analysis tools and how to use them and understand their results. A wide range of tooling will be explored, from generic kernel-level tooling, to V8 tracing tooling, to V8 compiler tooling in a quest to optimize some Node.js code.

Speakers

Bryce Baril

Bryce Baril has been writing software for decades and Node.js for a few years now. He's taught Node.js classes for the beginner to the advanced, and also writes software at NodeSource. His favorite hobbies include thinking and spending time with his family. He's spoken at numerous... Read More →

Wednesday December 9, 2015 11:50am - 12:10pm PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Backend

11:50am PST

JavaScript, For Science! - Max Ogden, DAT Project

Recent low level primitives like Buffers in Node, Typed Arrays in JavaScript, Node Native C++ Addons and Web Assembly and Web Workers have brought JavaScript and the Web in general into exciting new territory: Scientific computing!

I believe the future of scientific computing on the web means using Node to wrap your C programs in a high level API, building dataviz in WebGL and shipping the whole thing to your users in an Electron application.

While things are more possible now on the web than ever before, we still have a lot of catching up to do until we have a stack that could rival the excellent tools written by the PyData community.

Learn about potential JavaScript/Node features critical for supporting interesting new use cases: SIMD, Value Types, 64 Bit Integers, virtual filesystems, shared memory and when (or if) we can ever get the standards bodies to prioritize them.

Speakers

Max Ogden

Professional Module Publisher, DAT DATA

Wednesday December 9, 2015 11:50am - 12:10pm PST
Pavilion West

ClientSide

11:50am PST

Contributing to Node.js Core - Jeremiah Senkpiel, NodeSource

Node Core is ultimately at the center of this conference and the node community as a whole. Sure, we've all wanted to make it better, but node core is a little frightening. Where does one start contributing? Will you be hammered with review? What if you don't know C++? Do you need to dedicate lots of time? Will your contribution attempt even be noticed? These questions and more will be answered as I tell how I became a collaborator under the new io.js-inspired development process, and how you could become a collaborator too. As a Node.js TSC member with broad knowledge of the project, I'll be giving an overview of node core and the related Working Groups with how you could get involved as well as why you should try to get involved.

Speakers

Jeremiah Senkpiel

Software Developer, GoDaddy

"Your friendly Node.js TSC person. I type things and computers do things. A nerd who likes video games, tabletop RPGs, comics, tech, energy, outdoors, hedgehogs, and more. Aspiring sailor. Likes to chat with people. he/him/his"

Wednesday December 9, 2015 11:50am - 12:10pm PST
Pavillion East

IoT

12:10pm PST

Lunch Break

Wednesday December 9, 2015 12:10pm - 1:40pm PST
Portland

Conference Event

1:40pm PST

Node.js at PayPal - Matt Edelman, PayPal

Speakers

Matt Edelman

Software Framework Architect, Paypal

Wednesday December 9, 2015 1:40pm - 2:00pm PST
Pavillion East

Case Study

1:40pm PST

Sprouting Node.js Roots at Ancestry - Robert Schultz, Ancestry.com

Adoption of new technologies across a large developer ecosystem in a product company is not easy. Over the past year we've learned a lot of lessons on this process as we transition our frontend applications from C# to Node.js. I'd like to share with you the tips and tricks to successfully selling the adoption of Node.js both to your developers and the business in an incremental way.

Speakers

Robert Schultz

Wednesday December 9, 2015 1:40pm - 2:00pm PST
Pavilion West

Case Study

1:40pm PST

Node.js Foundation Board Panel - Mikeal Rogers, Community Manager; Danese Cooper, Paypal; Bill Fine, Joyent; Todd Moore, IBM; Charlie Robbins, GoDaddy; Gianugo Rabellno, Microsoft; Rich Sharples, Red Hat

Speakers

Danese Cooper

Founder and Chair, InnerSource Commons Foundation

Danese Cooper is founder and chair of InnerSource Commons and a member of the leadership team for the FINOS InnerSource SIG. Previously, she was head of open source software at PayPal, CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation, chief open source evangelist for Sun, and senior director of open... Read More →

Bill Fine

Todd Moore

Gianugo Rabellino

Microsoft

Charlie Robbins

Senior Director, Engineering, Charlie Robbins

Mikeal Rogers

Rich Sharples

Apache OpenWhisk, Red Hat

He has spent the last twenty years evangelizing, using and designing Enterprise Middleware. He has a particular fascination with large distributed systems and emerging technology. Also dogs and mountain biking. Currently working at Red Hat, previously Sun Microsystems.

Wednesday December 9, 2015 1:40pm - 2:00pm PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Panel Discussion

2:10pm PST

Node.js at CapitalOne - Azat Mardan, CapitalOne

Speakers

Azat Mardan

Director, Indeed.com

Azat Mardan is founder and lead instructor at Node University and… ⌨ Azat is #239 most active GitHub contributor in the world right next to Paul Irish, Addy Osmani, Todd Motto and other famous developers (source: https://gist.github.com/paulmillr/2657075).

Wednesday December 9, 2015 2:10pm - 2:30pm PST
Pavillion East

Case Study

2:10pm PST

Node.js at Netflix - Kim Trott, Netflix

Speakers

Kim Trott

Director, UI Platform Engineering, Netflix

Wednesday December 9, 2015 2:10pm - 2:30pm PST
Pavilion West

Case Study

2:10pm PST

Node.js Foundation Board Panel (Continued) - Mikeal Rogers, Community Manager; Danese Cooper, Paypal; Bill Fine, Joyent; Todd Moore, IBM; Charlie Robbins, GoDaddy; Gianugo Rabellno, Microsoft; Rich Sharples, Red Hat

Moderators

Mikeal Rogers

Speakers

Danese Cooper

Founder and Chair, InnerSource Commons Foundation

Bill Fine

Todd Moore

Gianugo Rabellino

Microsoft

Charlie Robbins

Senior Director, Engineering, Charlie Robbins

Rich Sharples

Apache OpenWhisk, Red Hat

Wednesday December 9, 2015 2:10pm - 2:30pm PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Panel Discussion

2:40pm PST

Node.js at GoDaddy - Charlie Robbins, GoDaddy

Speakers

Charlie Robbins

Senior Director, Engineering, Charlie Robbins

Wednesday December 9, 2015 2:40pm - 3:00pm PST
Pavilion West

Case Study

2:40pm PST

Node.js and Docker Panel Discussion - Joab Jackson and Alex Williams, The New Stack; Bryan Cantrill, Joyent; Peter Elger, NearForm; Jacob Groundwater, New Relic; Matt Hernandez, Modulus

Learn why developers are adopting Docker in droves and why many are finding a natural affinity between Node.js and Docker. Why should you consider Dockerizing? Hear from industry experts at New Relic, Joyent, Modulus, and NearForm who use Node.js and Docker for everything from fast rapid prototyping in dev/test to running mission critical workloads in production.

Moderators

Joab Jackson

Reporter, The New Stack

Alex Williams

Founder and Publisher, The New Stack

Alex Williams is founder and publisher of The New Stack, a content platform for the people who build and manage software the world relies on. He was an editor at ReadWriteWeb and TechCrunch before leaving in 2014 to start The New Stack. Alex hosts The New Stack Makers pancake and... Read More →

Speakers

Bryan Cantrill

CTO, Joyent

Bryan Cantrill is the CTO at Joyent, where he oversees worldwide development of the SmartOS and SmartDataCenter platforms, and the Node.js platform.Prior to joining Joyent, Bryan served as a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he spent over a decade working on system... Read More →

Peter Elger

Director of Engineering, nearForm

Jacob Groundwater

Manager & Maintainer, Microsoft

Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Jacob has lived in the SF Bay Area since 2013.

Matt Hernandez

Senior Manager, Engineering, Modulus

Wednesday December 9, 2015 2:40pm - 3:00pm PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Panel Discussion

2:40pm PST

Node.js for Enterprise APIs Panel Discussion - Juan Carlos Santos, StrongLoop; Joe Rice, Bank of America; Bryan Rogers, TD Bank; Shelby Sanders, GoDaddy

Moderators

Juan Carlos Soto

Vice President of Hybrid Cloud Integration and API Economy, IBM Cloud, IBM

Juan Carlos Soto is Vice President of Hybrid Cloud Integration and API Economy which includes IBM's API Connect, MQ, IIB, App Connect, DataPower, and Node.js offerings. Previously he was the CEO at StrongLoop, a leader in Node.js for the Enterprise, which was acquired by IBM in September... Read More →

Speakers

Joe Rice

Bryan Rogers

Shelby Sanders

Wednesday December 9, 2015 2:40pm - 3:00pm PST
Pavillion East

Panel Discussion

3:10pm PST

Building Node.js powered mobile apps with Red Hat Mobile - Greg Rewis, Red Hat

As every developer knows, mobile is exploding and challenging development teams — whether you are developing native applications, hybrid applications or a combination of both. And because network calls are one of the most battery-intensive operations, it’s essential that modern applications leverage the power of a APIs and micro services to optimize data delivery. The Red Hat Mobile platform is not only built on Node.js, but allows development teams to build mobile-oriented services and APIs using the full power of Node.js. In this quick, 20 minute session, we’ll explore the platform, quickly build and deploy a Node.js service and then consume it in a mobile application.

Speakers

Greg Rewis

Mobile Evangelist, Red Hat

Red Hat Mobile Evangelist

Wednesday December 9, 2015 3:10pm - 3:30pm PST
Pavilion West

Case Study

3:10pm PST

Node.js and Docker Panel Discussion (Continued) - Joab Jackson and Alex Williams, The New Stack; Bryan Cantrill, Joyent; Peter Elger, NearForm; Jacob Groundwater, New Relic; Matt Hernandez, Modulus

Moderators

Joab Jackson

Reporter, The New Stack

Alex Williams

Founder and Publisher, The New Stack

Speakers

Bryan Cantrill

CTO, Joyent

Peter Elger

Director of Engineering, nearForm

Jacob Groundwater

Manager & Maintainer, Microsoft

Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Jacob has lived in the SF Bay Area since 2013.

Matt Hernandez

Senior Manager, Engineering, Modulus

Wednesday December 9, 2015 3:10pm - 3:30pm PST
Grand Ballroom 1

Panel Discussion

3:10pm PST

Node.js for Enterprise APIs Panel Discussion (Continued) - Juan Carlos Santos, StrongLoop; Joe Rice, Bank of America; Bryan Rogers, TD Bank; Shelby Sanders, GoDaddy

Moderators

Juan Carlos Soto

Vice President of Hybrid Cloud Integration and API Economy, IBM Cloud, IBM

Speakers

Joe Rice

Bryan Rogers

Shelby Sanders

Wednesday December 9, 2015 3:10pm - 3:30pm PST
Pavillion East

Panel Discussion

3:30pm PST

Afternoon Break and Technology Showcase

Wednesday December 9, 2015 3:30pm - 4:00pm PST
Plaza Foyer

Conference Event

4:00pm PST

Modulus: Deploy for Dogs - Tara Manicsic, Modulus

Deploying projects using the Modulus CLI is so easy a dog could do it!* Tara Manicsic, Software Engineer at Modulus, will walk you through the few commands it takes to sign up, create and deploy your project using the Modulus CLI plus more if time allows! (*Disclaimer: Tara has yet to meet the dog that can do this, but we have a lot of faith in dogs).

Speakers

Tara Z. Manicsic

Developer Advocate, Progress

Tara Z. Manicsic is a life-long student, teacher and maker. She started her career as a software engineer for a platform as a service company coming out of the Brandery that had been acquired by a global software company, Progress Software. Currently she is a Developer Advocate for... Read More →

Wednesday December 9, 2015 4:00pm - 4:05pm PST
Grand Ballroom 1&2

Lightning Talk

4:05pm PST

Node.js and Joyent - Bryan Cantrill, Joyent

Joyent has been running Node.js in production and at scale for over 5 years. As such, we've learned production practices for designing, deploying and debugging Node.js apps and we've built container-native solutions to optimize app performance, security, and management. Experience the container-native difference!

Speakers

Bryan Cantrill

CTO, Joyent

Wednesday December 9, 2015 4:05pm - 4:10pm PST
Grand Ballroom 1&2

Lightning Talk

4:10pm PST

Real-time diabetes management with Node.js and Microsoft Azure - Scott Hanselman, Microsoft

Scott Hanselman demos a personal project that includes Node.js, Microsoft Azure, and the open source Visual Studio Code.

Speakers

Scott Hanselman

Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

Scott Hanselman is a Principal Program Manager for the Web Platform Team at Microsoft. He is a web developer who has been blogging at http://hanselman.com for over a decade. He works in open source on ASP.NET and the Azure cloud for Microsoft out of his home office in Portlan... Read More →

Wednesday December 9, 2015 4:10pm - 4:15pm PST
Grand Ballroom 1&2

Lightning Talk