Node.js / Node.js Interactive 2017 - Vancouver

Node.js Performance and Highly Scalable Micro-Services - Chris Bailey, IBM

The fundamental performance characteristics of Node.js, along with the improvements driven through the community benchmarking workgroup, makes Node.js ideal for highly performing micro-service workloads. Translating that into highly responsive, scalable solutions however is still far from easy. This session will discuss why Node.js is right for micro-services, introduce the best practices for building scalable deployments, and show you how to monitor and profile your applications to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.

About Chris Bailey
Chris is a senior architect in the Runtime Technologies team at IBM, contributing to the Node.js, Java and Swift runtimes. He works on performance monitoring and application visibility, allowing developers to optimize code, infrastructure to scale, operations teams to manage, and business owners to analyze an applications success. He has worked on virtual machine development for over 15 years, and is a recognized author and speaker on the topics of scalable deployments, performance and troubleshooting.

A Brief History of Streams - Jessica Quynh Tran

From spew streams to suck streams, Streams are a little understood corner of Node.js that are utilized in almost every internal module and across thousands of NPM packages. How exactly did Streams come to exist? How do they vary from version to version of Node.js? This talk will cover the technical history of “Streams” ranging back to UNIX pipes, and describe along the way how “Streams” derive from fundamental concepts of information technology.

Back Pressure, or, Don't Accept Work Before You're Ready [I] - Sam Roberts, IBM Canada

Back pressure is a network protocol concept that is key to writing node services that perform well under load, and that don't accept more work than they are ready to do or store data without bounds if the data can't be acted on (yet). Scalability is a strength of Node.js, but requires careful construction of data flow in your application to break up CPU processing so multiple large requests can make progress simultaneously. Learn how streams support back pressure and how you can take advantage of it in your applications.

About

Sam Roberts
IBM Canada
senior software engineer
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Websiteoctetcloud.com
Sam Roberts is a Node.js collaborator, mostly contributing to child and cluster process handling, TLS, and documentation. He arrived at Node.js from C systems programming on undersea submersibles, through PKI and crypto SDK implementation, and then multi-language (Lua/C/Python) networking systems. He eventually found Node.js, a sweet combination of event-driven programming and a dynamic language. He has primarily been working on Node.js support and production tooling, first at StrongLoop, and now at IBM Canada.

Building Foundations of the Node.js Community - Tierney Cyren, NodeSource

Node.js is a community centric platform. It grew with individuals and startups into something that’s used at a massive scale today.

With the io.js split and the resulting Node.js Foundation, where is that integral community now? Where is it going? And, most importantly, how can you get involved?

About

Tierney Cyren
Tierney is a Co-chair of the Node.js Community Committee, and a member of the Node.js Evangelism Working Group. He worked on contributing to Node.js at college in his spare time, and now writes tutorials and articles for the Community, with the goal of always enabling and empowering those who want to learn about Node.js and its vibrant ecosystem.

Gold Sponsor Session: Don’t Starve the Event Loop: Measuring and Monitoring Node.js for Performance - Nathan White, NodeSource

As more and more Node.js are pushed into production there is a critical need to define what it means for a Node.js application to be healthy and performant. We will identify critical metrics “under the hood” involving the Event Loop and GC (garbage collection). Finally we will explore how to quantify and interpret your application metrics to proactively prevent performance issues.

Gold Sponsor Session: Effective Typed JavaScript - Jeremy Morrell, Node.js Platform Owner, Heroku

Simply adding a type system to an existing JavaScript codebase using Flow or TypeScript can help document your code and avoid bugs. While you can treat types as simply an additional layer on top of the code you would normally write, to get the most out of a type system it's worth approaching it as a new language with its own idioms and patterns.

To understand the real power of these new tools we'll explore patterns from other strongly typed languages like Rust, Elm, and OCaml and see how we can apply them in our JavaScript codebases. Learn how to leverage the type system to help you refactor your code, ship changes with confidence, and never see `undefined is not a function ever again.

About

Jeremy Morrell
Node.js Platform Owner, Heroku
Jeremy builds furniture, climbs mountains, and makes Node happen at Heroku.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Logging - Charlie Robbins, GoDaddy

In software the act of logging is like breathing: you simply cannot avoid it. It is also (like one's own breathing patterns) quixotically nuanced. The expressions of this nuance can be seen in the number of ways it is used: in production server programs, in CLI tools, in web browsers, in native Mobile apps, just to name a few.

Winston is the most popular logging library for node. Released in early 2011, it is almost old as node itself. Over time there have been many other libraries that co-exist in the logging space: bunyan, bole, & pino. Yet the popularity of winston persists with over 6.5M monthly downloads and over 200 community contributed packages.

This talk will explore winston@3 and contrast it with other logging solutions that exist today. Not just from the perspective of performance, but from the perspective of flexibility across platforms.

Charlie Robbins
GoDaddy
Director of Engineering
NYC
Charlie has been a Gold Director of the Node Foundation, and is currently a Director of Engineering at GoDaddy where he is leading convergence around JavaScript and Node.js across several products through the UX Platform. Charlie was previously the founder and CEO of Nodejitsu (acquired by GoDaddy in 2015). An open source enthusiast and community builder, he is the author of many popular Node libraries, the creator of the EmpireJS and EmpireNode conferences in New York City, and an advisor to several technology startups. Charlie is a graduate of McGill and holds a Master's degree from Columbia University.

Functionality Abuse: The Forgotten Class of Attacks - Nwokedi Idika, Google

If you were given a magic wand that would remove all implementation flaws from your web application, would it be free of security problems? If it took you more five seconds to say “No!” (or if, worse, you said “Yes!”), then you’re the target audience for this talk. If you’re in the target audience, don’t fret, much of the security community is there with you. After this talk, attendees will understand why the answer to the abovementiond question is an emphatic “No!” and they will learn an approach to decrease their chance of failing to consider an important vector of attack for their current and future web applications.

About


Nwokedi Idika
Google
Nwokedi Idika is a member of Nightwatch, Google’s product-focused privacy team. Prior to engaging product teams on privacy issues at Google, he spent a couple of years building solutions to malicious automated threats at Shape Security and a few years at MIT Lincoln Lab working on quantifying trust and approaches to improve cyber defenders’ situational awareness. He earned his Ph.D. and Master's in CS from Purdue University and a B.S. in CS from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Going Serverless with GraphQL - Steven Faulkner, Bustle

At Bustle we have transitioned our entire production platform to AWS Lambda and API gateway. But it didn't happen overnight. We got there iteratively and GraphQL was a huge part of the process. I'll talk specifically about the different approaches we used to transition services and data off of legacy infrastructure and how we used graphQL to do it.

GraphQL in the Wild [I] - Steven Faulkner, Bustle

GraphQL is seeing rapid adoption in the JavaScript community. In part, thanks to an excellent reference implementation written in Node.js (graphql-js). Yet there are still many challenges to operating a GraphQL API in production and few real world examples of how to tackle them. Newcomers are often on their own for concerns such as:

- Authorization and authentication
- Extending built in types
- Sharing field definitions
- Deciding between Union and Interface types
- Custom default resolvers
- Project structure and organization

In this talk I'll discuss why Bustle rewrote our entire backend in GraphQL and how we solved these challenges along the way. I will also be open sourcing code extracted from our production GraphQL backend.

Grokking Asynchronous Work in Node.js [I] - Thorsten Lorenz, NodeSource

Grokking Asynchronous Work in Node.js

The ability to understand, inspect and debug asynchronous tasks in Node.js remains one of it's most glaring deficiencies. A typical production Node.js application will have hundreds of concurrent actions taking place under the hood simultaneously. This soup of activity results in a runtime that is difficult to inspect and debug.

But help is at hand via the new Async Hooks API is being enabled in Node.js to give us deeper insight to the mysteries of Node's asynchronous magic.

Thorsten Lorenz has worked closely with the primary author of Async Hooks, Trevor Norris to ready this new API for public release. In this talk he will explain how these new low-level features can be used to build tools and finally answer the question: what is my Node.js application doing??

The talk will include visual demos that expose the connected activity occurring inside your Node.js process in slow-motion.

About

Thorsten Lorenz
NodeSource
Senior Developer
Thorsten is a Jazz musician turned developer and is excited about Node.js and its community The fast turnaround from idea to working module has proven addictive for him and led to lots of modules which ended up on github and/or npm. He also contributes to other awesome open source efforts like browserify to which he added source map support. Lately he has been focusing on understanding the Node.js stack in more depth, focusing on libuv, v8 and is helping out with the addition of the async hooks feature to Node.js core itself. Please find previous talks of Thorsten at [http://thlorenz.com/talks/](http://thlorenz.com/talks/).

High Performance Apps with JavaScript and Rust, It's Easier Than You Think - Amir Yasin, 2U

NodeJS is amazing at lots of things, but computationally intensive or low level tasks aren't among those things. How can you still leverage the ease of use of NodeJS and do things that are computationally expensive like machine learning, or low level things like computations on a GPU? By using Rust and Node together. Rust is a strongly typed cross platform language that is an excellent choice for handing these exact problems. It's easy to learn and works very well with Node. This talk will teach you Rust syntax and usage from a JS developers perspective, how to write a Rust library to make it callable from NodeJS and finally actually calling the library from NodeJS. After attending this talk you will:
- Have a basic grasp of writing a Rust library
- Know when and how to use Rust
- Understand how to use the foreign function interface to call out from NodeJS
- Execute callbacks to your Node code from your Rust lib.

About

Amir Yasin
2U
Engineer IV
Amir Yasin has been developing software for nearly 20 years. In that time he's written software in the aviation, defense, medical,. finance, and education industries. He's gone from embedded C to full stack Javascript. It's been quite a ride and he'e learned a lot about writing solid software along the way. He also writes about the practice of software engineering. You can find him on twitter @ayasin, and on medium at medium.com/@ayasin.

High Performance JS in V8 [I] - Peter Marshall, Google

This year, V8 launched Ignition and Turbofan, the new compiler pipeline that handles all JavaScript code generation. Previously, achieving high-performance in Node.js meant catering to the oddities of our now-deprecated Crankshaft compiler.

This talk covers our new code-generation architecture - what makes it special, a bit about how it works, and how to write high performance code for the new V8 pipeline.

About

Peter Marshall
Software Engineer, Google
Peter is working on making JavaScript fast in Chrome and Node.js. New ES6 features beware.

Hooray for Arrays! Tips and Tricks for JavaScript's Best Object - Erin McKean, IBM

Javascript arrays are special, in all senses of the word. In this talk, you'll learn everything you ever wanted to learn about arrays in Javascript (and probably more): what arrays actually are, fun ways to use arrays, array gotchas to avoid, differences in how arrays work in current and upcoming versions of Javascript, and (because this is Javascript) a few head-scratchers along the way.

About


Erin McKean
IBM
Developer Evangelist
Cal-i-forn-i-a
Twitter Tweet Websiteerinmckean.com
Developer Advocate, IBM

Erin McKean is a Developer Advocate for IBM and loves talking about APIs to anyone who will stand still long enough. Before Node.js, she dabbled in Ruby, HyperCard, Perl, and Omnimark, and still finds herself writing bash scripts on a regular basis. Erin is also the founder of Wordnik.com, which has a lot of fun APIs! In her spare time she sews clothes and makes Twitterbots.

How Build Infrastructure Powers the Node.js Foundation - Gibson Fahnestock, IBM

The build workgroup (https://github.com/nodejs/build/) has the mission to provide Node.js Foundation projects with solid computing infrastructure covering a wide range of platforms and different software stacks. In this talk we will introduce the general philosophy of how infrastructure is sourced, which has a strong focus on community donations, the overall picture of the substantial infrastructure we've managed to build using this approach, some of the interesting interactions and, just as important, how you might get involved. Come learn about the infrastructure that powers the delivery of Node.js!

About

Gibson Fahnestock
Software Developer, IBM
Gibson Fahnestock is a Node.js collaborator and an active member of several Node core teams, with a focus on Build and Test. By day he works on the IBM SDK for Node.js.

JSF Architect: Lambda on Easy Mode- Brian LeRoux, Begin.com

AWS Lambda enables developers to focus entirely on their application logic free of infrastructure concerns. Lambda functions can be developed in isolation, deployed in seconds, immediately available with zero downtime, and are (at least theoretically) endlessly scalable. If these properties aren't enough to excite developers the cost is also remarkably cheap. 1 million invocations a month are free.

About

Brian LeRoux
Brian is a former member of the Adobe PhoneGap team and helped to foster the Apache Cordova project. He is also responsible for wtfjs. Lately he has been building begin.com with AWS infra using arc.codes

Journey to Node.js Core Using End-to-End Workload Node-DC-EIS [I] - Anil Kumar, Intel

Node.js is excellent in handling asynchronous events but emerging enterprise use cases are becoming very complex as Node.js is being used for many adjacent areas also. We are developing an end-to-end workload (https://github.com/Node-DC/Node-DC-EIS) which is exercising many critical features of Node.js like async.js call, anonymous functions, connections to different schemas of mongo DB etc. We are using this workload to evaluate monolithic mode vs. cluster mode vs. micro-services as well as impact of different schema architecture, local caching etc. while monitoring internals of Node.js event loop. In addition to throughput, it reports 99 percentile of response time. We are also containerizing the workload to understand the impact on throughput and response time. Using top-down performance methodology, build-in Node.js monitoring as well as HW counters, we are working to understand the internals of Node.js and how different critical Node.js components exercise a typical Data Center resources. This will help Node.js developers and architects in understanding Node.js pitfalls and writing applications which will scale in an enterprise Node.js environment which is essential for long term success of Node ecosystem.

About

Anil Kumar
Intel Corporation
Performance Architect and Engineering Manager
Portland, OR, USA
Websitehttps://github.com/Node-DC
Anil is one of the earliest contributors to Java virtual machines GC, large pages, profiling etc. He has great experience in performance optimization as well as benchmarks development and standardization. He comes with an extensive industry network, being the Intel representative for 5 years in the JCP Executive Committee (Java Community Process) and a member in the SPEC committee where he chairs the OSGjava subcommittee, which owns the benchmarks SPECjms2007, SPECjvm2008, SPECjEnterprise2010 and SPECjbb2015. In addition to being a key player in SPEC (www.spec.org) with many well-known OEMs and enterprise companies, Anil has been one of the key architects for SPECjvm2008, SPECjbb2005/2015, SPECpower_ssj2008 benchmarks. More details can be found here https://www.linkedin.com/in/anil-kumar-0333054/. Anil has delivered many talks at conferences like JavaOne and keynotes at SouJava Brazil, ICPE in Dresdon, Node Summit 2017. Currently he is project owner for https://github.com/Node-DC where main charter is to develop Node.js workloads for Data Center. In spare time, he loves mentoring young kids for STEM and judging science fairs in particularly for emerging trends in computers.

KEYNOTE- The Node Movement and How to Play a Part- Matteo Collina and James Snell, nearForm

As with every significant movement, the node movement will be marked in the history books. This talk covers how open source is really an art and best practices in making it a sustainable art throughout time.

KEYNOTE- The V8 Engine and Node.js- Franzi Hinkelmann, Google

V8 is the JavaScript engine developed by Google used in Chrome. V8 is also the JavaScript runtime in Node.js. Learn what the Chrome V8 team is doing to continue to support Node.js.

About

Franzi Hinkelmann is located in Munich, Germany where she works at Google on Chrome V8. Franzi, like James and Anna, is a member of the Node.js Core Technical Committee. She speaks across the globe on the topic of JavaScript virtual machines. She has a PhD in mathematics, but left academia to follow her true passion: writing code.

Franzi will discuss her perspective on Chrome V8 in Node.js, and what the Chrome V8 team is doing to continue to support Node.js. Want to know what the future of browser development looks like? This is a must-attend keynote.

To get a better idea of what to expect, check out a few presentations from past events, including Express State of the Union with Doug Wilson (Core Maintainer of Express), Node.js at Netflix with Kim Trott (Director of UI Platform Engineering at Netflix) and Home Automation with Node.js and MQTT with Michael Dawson (Senior Software Developer at IBM and Collaborator and Core Technical Committee Member of Node.js). If you want to keep abreast on all the latest news happening around Node.js and this event, follow us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Medium and subscribe to our newsletter.

KEYNOTE: Developer Efficiency and Production Success for Node.js Applications: Create, Deploy, Manage - Michael Dawson, IBM

Developer efficiency, production-level performance, support and easy-to-use tooling are critical to the success of Node.js at an enterprise-scale. For years, IBM has been committed to making Node.js enterprise ready through key contributions to the community. Join Michael Dawson as he shares how IBM is building on those efforts to provide tooling (many open source) and support throughout the entire development life cycle, so Node.js can power business critical enterprise applications.

About

About
Michael Dawson is an active contributor to Node.js and a CTC member. He contributes to a broad range of community efforts including platform support, build infrastructure, N-API, LTS as well as tools to help the community achieve quality with speed (ex: ci jobs, benchmarking and code coverage reporting). Within IBM he leads the Node.js team driving IBM’s Node.js runtime deliveries and their contributions to Node.js and v8 within the Node and google communities. Past experience includes building IBM's Java runtime, building and operating client facing e-commerce applications, building PKI and symmetric based crypto solutions as well as a number of varied consulting engagements. In his spare time he uses Node.js to automate his home and life for fun.

KEYNOTE: JS Foundation Panel: The Many Facets of Sustaining an Open Source Ecosystem- Jory Burson, Bocoup (Moderator); Maggie Pint, Microsoft; Tracy Hinds, Node.js; Erin McKean, IBM

This panel of open source community members discusses the many aspects of creating, supporting and sustaining open source projects. The panel will discuss everything from the corporate-open source relationship to diversity's role in truly sustainable ecosystems.

About

Jory Burson
COO at Bocoup and Silver member representative to the JS Foundation board of directors

Tracy Hinds
Education + Community, Node.js Foundation and architect, Node.js Community Committee


Tracy is an open source technology education and community advocate by day at the Node.js Foundation, and a diplomatic non-profit director by most other hours–she loves people as much as helping the world through teaching code. When not baking, rock climbing, or wandering New York City, her family plays the game of ‘Where in the World is Tracy?’. If you’re building tech communities that are supportive to all walks of life, she’d love to speak with you!


Erin McKean
IBM, Developer Evangelist

Erin McKean is a Developer Advocate for IBM and loves talking about APIs to anyone who will stand still long enough. Before Node.js, she dabbled in Ruby, HyperCard, Perl, and Omnimark, and still finds herself writing bash scripts on a regular basis. Erin is also the founder of Wordnik.com, which has a lot of fun APIs! In her spare time she sews clothes and makes Twitterbots.

Maggie Pint
Software Engineering Lead, Microsoft working on Open Source SRE and JS Foundation representative to ECMA TC39

About
Maggie Pint loves open source. She is a maintainer of the popular DateTime library Moment.js. In addition, she is a delegate of the JS Foundation to TC39 (the committee that designs the JavaScript programming language) where she advocates for the interests of the open source community. In her day job, Maggie is an engineering manager in Microsoft Azure Site Reliability Engineering, where she creates Node.js tooling that helps to more quickly mitigate incidents in the cloud. When not making software, Maggie enjoys showing Australian Shepherds in obedience competition, drinking a lot of coffee, and hanging out with her five year old son.

KEYNOTE: Node.js Wave 6- Myles Borins, Node.js TSC Chair, Google

Node.js has evolved a number of times as the project moved between stewards, experienced a fork with io.js, and a reunification in v4.0.0. Within the stewardship of the Node.js Foundation the project has found itself in a fairly stable position when it comes to how the project moves forward technically. As the project finds itself spending less time reacting to problems, we find ourselves in the position to be more proactive about the future of Node.js. This talk will present a vision of what the next wave of Node.js may look like.

Myles Borins
Modules Modules Modules, Google
Myles Borins is a developer, musician, artist, and inventor | | he works for Google as a developer advocate serving the Node.js ecosystem | | he graduated with a Master of Music Science and Technology from c.c.r.m.a.

KEYNOTE: One Week in the Life of Node.js- Anna Henningsen, Node.js Core Technical Committee Member

Would you have guessed that the Node.js Github organization generates more than ten thousand comments per month? Probably not! Anna sheds some light on what is happening in the everyday life of the Node.js project and gives insight into the challenges of developing an open software on this scale.

About

Anna Henningsen
Anna is a math student from Düsseldorf, Germany. When Anna is not studying, she is contributing to Node.js or participating in the Node.js Core Technical Committee - Node.js is her current hobby. Anna also helps mentor at Code & Learn events. Code & Learn events allow developers to get started (or go further) with Node.js core contributions. Experienced contributors help guide developers through their first (or second or third or fourth) commit to Node.js core. If you are interested, a Code & Learn event will take place on October 6 during Node.js Interactive.

Anna will cover one week in the life of the technical side of Node.js.

KEYNOTE: The Case for Node.js- Justin Beckwith, Product Manager, Google

Node.js has had a transformational effect on the way we build software. However, convincing your organization to take a bet on Node.js can be difficult. My personal journey with Node.js has included convincing a few teams to take a bet on this technology, and this community. Let’s take a look at the case for Node.js we made at Google, and how you can make the case to bring it to your organization.

About

Justin Beckwith
Justin is a product manager, web developer, and geek dad working on the developer experience for Google Cloud. He leads Google’s Node.js product efforts, and this one time he served on the Node.js Foundation board of directors. Before joining Google, he filled various developer and architect roles with startups, healthcare companies, and universities. He blogs at http://jbeckwith.com and twitters as @justinbeckwith.

KEYNOTE: The Creative Side of Node.js- Rachel White, Microsoft

Rachel is a self-taught developer and designer who is interested in new uses for old hardware, robots, VR/AR/MR and bots. She’s spoken internationally about JavaScript Robotics, Twitter Bots, browser based video games and Node.js. Rachel is currently working on multiple video game projects and a VR cat cafe.

We often hear about how Node.js is fueling digital transformation within businesses, but what about the creative work (and there’s plenty of it) being done with Node.js?

Rachel will explore creativity with Node.js and provide a glimpse into the art pieces people are working on that are powered by Node.js, how they are using it and what services they are incorporating.

KEYNOTE: The Foundation for a Sustainable JavaScript Ecosystem - Kris Borchers, Executive Director, JS Foundation

The JavaScript ecosystem is massive, growing, and touches every corner of technology from client to server, IoT to cloud and everything in between. Kris will briefly share with you why and how the JS Foundation is taking on the enormous task of creating infrastructure and providing guidance to that ecosystem in order to support and sustain projects long term across all stages of the project lifecycle.

About


Kris Borchers
JS Foundation / Linux Foundation
Executive Director
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
Twitter Tweet Websitehttps://js.foundation
Kris is a champion and proponent of open source and open governance. As Executive Director of the JS Foundation, Kris leads the organization in its goal to drive broad adoption and ongoing development of key JavaScript solutions and related technologies. The JS Foundation also helps facilitate collaboration within the JavaScript development community to ensure those projects maintain the quality and diverse contribution bases that provide for long-term sustainability.

KEYNOTE: The Node.js Technical Roadmap, James Snell, nearForm

James M Snell will layout and discuss the future of the Node.js platform including a look at the key technical objectives, initiatives, and features that are coming to Node.js 9, 10 and beyond.

KEYNOTE: Welcome and Node.js Update- Mark Hinkle, Node.js Foundation

About
Mark is the Executive Director of the Node.js Foundation. He works with members of the Node.js Foundation to articulate priorities for the Foundation for the foreseeable future. He also focuses on membership growth from both a corporate and individual standpoint.

KEYNOTE: You Know What They Say About Good Intentions - Kim Crayton, Community Engineer and Advocate

About
Kim Crayton has years of experience working with learners of all ages, skill level, and abilities and is now using her knowledge to develop technical people, ideas, organizations, and communities. Her current efforts focus on creating environments that support the safe sharing of common attitudes, interests, and goals, which she is doing with “The Community Engineering Report” podcast (@CommEngReport), “Taming the Wild West: Strategies For Successfully Transitioning Into A Technology Career” workshop, public speaking, and #WeCanDoBetter. She is currently pursuing a Doctor’s of Business Administration - Technology Entrepreneurship

Keeping JavaScript Safe: Security & The npm Registry - C J Silverio, CTO, npm, Inc

Who really published this package? Am I getting the same package this person published? Does this package have vulnerabilities? Is this package malware? These are questions we all ask about packages on the npm registry, and the answers are important to us as we develop services and applications with the code shared there. C J Silverio, CTO of npm, Inc, tells you how you can answer these questions and what npm is doing to allow the node world to share code with confidence.

Kill All Humans: Introducing Reliable Dependency and Release Management for npm Packages [I] - Gregor Martynus, Neighbourhoodie

“Versionsnummernerhöhungsangst” is the German word for the fear of increasing the major version number of a module, and just look at this word – it must be real! Let’s explore the reasons for this fear and how we, collectively, can overcome it. People think Semantic Versioning is an ambiguous concept, but we can learn how to work with it correctly, how to interpret the author’s intent (or express our own), and how to back up the whole process with automation, security layers and verification mechanisms. Let me introduce you to an automated, tool-backed process that unfolds the full potential of a small modules world, while leaving humans to what they’re needed for: creation, communication and decision making.

About

Gregor Martynus
Neighbourhoodie
Node Developer by day, Open Source Community Engineer by night.

Maintainer Burden Group Therapy- Jory Burson, Bocoup; Tracy Hinds, Node.js; Erin McKean, IBM

Small group discussion on tips for reducing maintainer burden.

About

Jory Burson
COO at Bocoup and Silver member representative to the JS Foundation board of directors

Tracy Hinds
Education + Community for the Node.js Foundation and architect of the Node.js Community Committee


Tracy is an open source technology education and community advocate by day at the Node.js Foundation, and a diplomatic non-profit director by most other hours–she loves people as much as helping the world through teaching code. When not baking, rock climbing, or wandering New York City, her family plays the game of ‘Where in the World is Tracy?’. If you’re building tech communities that are supportive to all walks of life, she’d love to speak with you!

Erin McKean
IBM
Developer Evangelist
Cal-i-forn-i-a
Twitter Tweet Websiteerinmckean.com
Developer Advocate, IBM

Erin McKean is a Developer Advocate for IBM and loves talking about APIs to anyone who will stand still long enough. Before Node.js, she dabbled in Ruby, HyperCard, Perl, and Omnimark, and still finds herself writing bash scripts on a regular basis. Erin is also the founder of Wordnik.com, which has a lot of fun APIs! In her spare time she sews clothes and makes Twitterbots.

Modules Modules Modules [I] - Myles Borins, Google

ES Modules and Common JS go together like old bay seasoning and vanilla ice cream.

This talk will dig into the inconsistencies of the two patterns, and how the Node.js project is dealing with reconciling the problem. The talk will look at the history of modules in the js ecosystem and the subtle difference between them. It will also skim over how ecma-262 is standardized by the tc39, and how esmodules were developed.

About

Myles Borins
Modules Modules Modules, Google
Myles Borins is a developer, musician, artist, and inventor | | he works for Google as a developer advocate serving the Node.js ecosystem | | he graduated with a Master of Music Science and Technology from c.c.r.m.a.

My 20-Year Journey as a JS Engineer, Front to Back - Joe Sepi, IBM

As a self-taught JavaScript engineer who began his adventures in the web world from the design/front-end angle, I've always been a little intimidated by the backend, especially compiled languages like Java. I’ve been guilty of “throwing it over the fence” when it comes to the separation of front/back. However, with the awesomeness of Node.js, that fence has become much easier to see over. And now that I am familiar with the open source tool, LoopBack, I feel like I’m a Node.js API pro ... AND YOU CAN TOO! I literally want to API ALL THE THINGS!

I'd like to share with you my journey: my odd and late entry into programming, struggling with imposter syndrome, the search for community, overcoming the barrier between client/server and finding confidence to reside in that "full stack JavaScript" world. "My story" culminates in my current role as Lead Developer Evangelist for the StrongLoop team at IBM where I spend all day talking about and building APIs in Node.js using LoopBack. We'll look at how magical and awesome LoopBack is, which will make clear why I love my job.

About


Joe Sepi
IBM
Developer Advocate
NYC/Peekskill, NY
Twitter Tweet Websitejoesepi.com
Joe Sepi is passionate about advancing the web forward through open source technologies and open communities. He has held engineering leadership positions at companies such as The New York Times, Adobe, Credit Suisse and Sears. Considering he enjoys interacting with people as much as code, he splits his time between engineering and evangelism/advocacy at IBM. Joe Sepi joined IBM as the Lead Developer Evangelist for the StrongLoop Team but has since joined the NYC Team of Developer Advocates.

He also plays in two punk rock bands, hits the dirt trails on his enduro and enjoys time with his family.

N-API - Next Generation Node API for Native Modules [I] - Michael Dawson, IBM & Arunesh Chandra, Microsoft

Until now, native module (add-ons) maintainers have had to recompile for each Node.js release as well as potentially updating their code to cope with the rapid pace of changes in the v8 APIs. The community API working group has been developing the N-API (Node-API) as a follow on to Nan to help solve this problem and insulate modules from changes in the v8 APIs.

By targeting the new API, modules will be able support a wide variety of Node.js releases without needing recompilation or abstraction layers such as Nan - reducing deployment time and maintenance effort for both module developers and Node.js end users.

With an initial version of the API slated to be part of Node version 8 as an experimental feature, it is a good time to come learn about the shape and usage of the new API from those working to implement it.

About

Arunesh Chandra
Sr. Program Manger @ChakraCore, Microsoft
Arunesh Chandra is working on growing Node.js by extending it to use the ChakraCore engine. He is also working on supporting fresh ideas in the community like VM Neutrality for Node.js and bringing innovative diagnostic tooling like Time-Travel Debugging to Node developers.

Michael Dawson
IBM
Senior Software Developer
Ottawa, Ontario
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Michael Dawson is an active contributor to Node.js and a CTC member. He contributes to a broad range of community efforts including platform support, build infrastructure, N-API, LTS as well as tools to help the community achieve quality with speed (ex: ci jobs, benchmarking and code coverage reporting). Within IBM he leads the Node.js team driving IBM’s Node.js runtime deliveries and their contributions to Node.js and v8 within the Node and google communities. Past experience includes building IBM's Java runtime, building and operating client facing e-commerce applications, building PKI and symmetric based crypto solutions as well as a number of varied consulting engagements. In his spare time he uses Node.js to automate his home and life for fun.

New DevTools Features for JavaScript - Yang Guo, Google

Ever since v8-inspector has moved to V8's repository, we have been working on a number of new features for DevTools, usable for both Chrome and Node.js.

The talk will demonstrate code coverage, type profiling, and give a deep dive into how evaluating a code snippet in DevTools console works in V8.

About

Yang Guo
Software Engineer on V8, Google
Yang is a developer on V8 at Google, working on debugger, snapshotting, and Node.js.

Node And Learn: How to Create a Local Node.js Community [B] - Yosuke Furukawa, Recruit Technologies

Node Japanese User Group has over 3000 members, and we have meetups or workshops in every months. This talk provides how Japanese Node Community is grown up and how we interact with global community.

This talk includes the following topics:

- Introduction Node.js Japan User Group (Introduction Japanese famous Noder and libraries)
- How to create Node Developers in Japan (Code And Learn / NodeSchool)
- How to improve Node Community (NodeGirls in Japan / CodeOfConduct)
- How to collaborate with Global Node.js Community (NodeFest guests)

About

Yosuke Furukawa
Recruit Technologies
Yosuke Furukawa
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Yosuke leads the Japan Node.js User Group and is an organizer of NodeFest. Yosuke has an interest in ESNext, new protocols like HTTP/2, WebRTC, and testing tools. He built the tower-of-babel, ES2015 tutorial tool and is now getting into universal web applications using React and Redux.

Node.js Does 30 Billion Transactions Per Day [B] - Joran Siu, IBM

We all know that Node.js can scale, but how far and what's needed? Come learn how we scaled Node.js based AcmeAir to 30 billion transactions/day. The hardware, the software and the key challenges along the way that had to be overcome in order to get the 350,000 transactions per second! AcmeAir is one of the benchmarks used by the community to track Node.js performance, come learn more about this benchmark and how far it can scale.

About

Joran Siu
IBM
Senior Software Developer
Joran Siu is IBM Runtimes Architect for z Systems, responsible for the Node.js and Java runtimes on the platform. He was a key contributor in porting Node.js and V8 JavaScript engines to Linux on z Systems, and previously worked on IBM Testarossa Just-In-Time Compiler for Java. He is based at the IBM Toronto Software Lab, in Markham, ON, Canada. Since joining IBM in 2004, he has been developing dynamic compilation technology for z Systems.

Node.js at Alibaba [A] - Joyee Cheung, Alibaba Cloud

In this talk I will cover the story of Node.js at Alibaba, a top Chinese Internet company consisting of many different subsidiaries, each with its own technical stack and business focus. I will talk about our effort to unify the Node.js development practices across the Alibaba group (frameworks, infrastructures, deployment, .etc), and how Node.js applications in Alibaba deal with the challenges of our Double 11 sales.

I will also talk about the open source Node.js projects from Alibaba (including egg.js and cnpm, two enterprise-facing projects born out of the unique environment of China), the public cnpm registry (funded by Alibaba Cloud, which serves millions of downloads from China per day), and the Chinese Node.js developer community.

About

Joyee Cheung
Developer, Alibaba Cloud
Joyee currently works on alinode at Alibaba Cloud. Alinode is an application management solution for Node.js in production, which has been used both inside and outside the Alibaba Group at scale. She is also a Node.js CTC member.

Node.js With Steroids: Make Better Node.js Application with Native Add-Ons - Nicola Del Gobbo, Packly S.R.L.

This talk is about creating Node.js interfaces for native libraries written in C or C++. It starts talking about various situations in which you need to build native addons and the common problems in doing that.
I'll discuss about the portion of the node.js documentation that describes native addons, the api fragmentation, and the reference provided by the Native Abstractions.
With all these tools and knowledge i'll show you how to build some addons from scratch and explain how to keep your code asynchronous.
Along the practical examples i will illustrate the best practice to follow in building native addon and give you some statistics about the performance improvements for the app that use native addons.
At the end i will show what will be the future developments will like and talk about new N-API.

About


Nicola Del Gobbo
Packly S.R.L.
Developer
Campobasso Area, Italy
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I'm very passionate in developing web & mobile application. I started my developer career as Java and PHP developer but in 2013 i discovered Node.js and i fell in love with JavaScript. Now I'm a fullstack JavaScript developer and I try to give my contribute to all technologies that I use everyday. I love to share my knowledge so I write technical article. I'm a Co-Founder of Nacios Technologies and now I'm lead developer at Packly, too. My real happiness consist in resolving very difficult problem with simplicity and sometimes going for a long walk.

On How Your Brain is Conspiring Against You Making Good Software - Jenna Zeigen, Digital Ocean

If there's anything that decades of psychology research have shown us, it's that human cognition is full of bias and fallacy. Even smart software engineers are not immune to being humans. In fact, there's so many things keeping us from being the best developers we could be, preventing us from planning our work effectively to assembling the best teams to being productive in that open office. This talk will go over pieces of psychological research in an effort to make people aware of how their minds work, how it’s making us worse at tech, and what we can do about it.

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Jenna Zeigen
DigitalOcean
Engineering Manager
Brooklyn, NY
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One morning, Jenna awoke to find that she had transformed into a programmer. She's been psyched about coding ever since. She's currently swimming with JavaScript at DigitalOcean as the Engineering Manager for their Frontend Infrastructure team. When she's not teaching pixels to party or helping keep engineers happy, Jenna enjoys climbing, coffee, and cat gifs. Her best party trick is that she wrote the most serious academic paper of her life on puns.

Panel: What Module Developers Would like Node.js Core Developers to Know - moderated by James Snell, nearForm

This panel discussion will feature module and ecosystem developers who will be asked to discuss the top things that Node.js Core developers should know about the ecosystem. What are their priorities? What makes their lives more difficult? What should core be doing better? What should we not be doing at all?

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James Snell
nearForm

Take Your HTTP Server to Ludicrous Speed [I] - Matteo Collina, nearForm

Express, Hapi, Restify, or just plain Node.js core? Which framework should I choose? In my journey in nodeland, I always wonder about the cost of my abstractions. require(‘http’) can reach 25k requests/sec, Express 9k, and Hapi 2k.
I started a journey to write an HTTP framework with extremely low overhead, and Fastify was born. With its ability to reach an astonishing 20k requests/sec, Fastify can halve your cloud server bill.
How can Fastify be so.. fast? We will see start by analyzing flamegraphs with 0x, and then delve into --v8-options, discovering how to leverage V8’s feedback and optimize our code. We will discuss function inlining, optimizations and deoptimizations. We will discuss the tools and the libraries you can use to do performance analysis on your code. In Fastify we reach a point where even allocating a callback is too slow: Ludicrous Speed.

About

Matteo Collina
nearForm
Software Architect
Websitenearform.com
Matteo is a code pirate and mad scientist. He spends most of his days programming in Node.js, but in the past he worked with Ruby, Java and Objective-C. In 2014, he defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Application Platforms for the Internet of Things". Now he is a Software Architect at nearForm, where he consults for the top brands in world. Matteo is also the author of the Node.js MQTT Broker, Mosca, the fast logger Pino and of the LevelGraph database. Since 2015, he is a Node.js collaborator, where he helps maintaining Streams. Matteo spoke at several international conferences: Node.js Interactive, NodeConf.eu, NodeSummit, LXJS, Distill by Engine Yard, and JsDay to name a few. He is also co-author of the book "Javascript: Best Practices" edited by FAG, Milan. In the summer he loves sailing the Sirocco.

The Future is Serverless: What That Means for Node.js - Christopher Anderson, Microsoft

Serverless computing is sweeping the cloud industry and transforming how we're building applications on the cloud. Node.js has been the first language each of the major serverless providers has supported from day 1. Node.js applications written for serverless are changing from their "server"ed past. We'll discuss why serverless went Node.js first, what impact this will have on Node.js developers, and finally, what consequences this might have on Node.js's ecosystem.

About

Christopher Anderson
Program Manager, Microsoft
Chris is one of the creators of and program managers for Azure Functions. He helps drive Serverless strategy at Microsoft. In the past, he's helped deliver and improve Node.js experiences for SQL, Mobile, and Web technologies on Microsoft Azure.

The JS Ecosystem: Making Sense of the Madness - Ethan Brown, Pop Art

Being a JavaScript developer in 2017 is daunting. The proliferation of standards, frameworks, paradigms, tools, and services can be overwhelming. A lot of JavaScript developers don't even write JavaScript! This talk gives you practical advice on navigating the massive, chaotic JS ecosystem, and how to evaluate what technologies are most relevant and valuable to you.

About

Ethan Brown
Pop Art
Director of Engineering
Portland, Oregon Area
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Ethan is Director of Engineering at Pop Art, a Portland, Oregon software company specializing in digital content management. He is author of two O'Reilly titles: Web Development with Node and Express, and Learning JavaScript, 3rd Edition. He holds undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Virginia Commonwealth University, and an MBA from Portland State University.

The Node.js Event Loop: Not So Single Threaded - Bryan Hughes, Microsoft

You've heard Node.js is single threaded. It's true that all JavaScript executed by Node.js is run in a single thread, but JS isn't all. The event loop, written in C++, is multi-threaded! Come learn how the event loop works, how it affects performance, and how you can use it your advantage!

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Bryan Hughes
Microsoft
Technical Evangelist
San Francisco, CA
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Bryan Hughes is a technical evangelist at Microsoft, a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, and chairperson of the Node.js Community Committee. Bryan is also the creator of Raspi IO, a Raspberry Pi plugin for the Johnny-Five JavaScript robotics library. Outside of tech, Bryan is an amateur photographer, occasional writer, a once upon a time pianist, and a wine aficionado.

The State of Node.js Security [I] - Tim Kadlec, Snyk

The Node ecosystem is thriving. But the more popular an ecosystem, the more interesting it looks to attackers. Let's look at the current state of security in Node. We'll talk about some of the interesting security improvements in Node in the past year. Drawing on original research, we'll also look at the frequency of vulnerabilities in npm packages, which types of vulnerabilities are the most frequent and the roles that enterprises, package owners and package managers all play in keeping Node.js secure.

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Tim Kadlec
Snyk
Developer Relations
Northwoods, WI
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Time is the head of developer relations at Snyk—a company focused on making open source code more secure. He is the author of Implementing Responsive Design: Building sites for an anywhere, everywhere web, and was a contributing author for High Performance Images, Smashing Book #4: New Perspectives on Web Design, and the Web Performance Daybook Volume 2.

TypeScript - A Love Tale with JavaScript- Bowden Kelly, Microsoft

Around 5 years ago, we embarked on a journey to create TypeScript. It all began with our love and passion to help JavaScript developers create applications that scale. TypeScript has come a long way since then. This session will dive head first on a demo driven tour of what Typescript is and the value it brings for JavaScript developers. You'll walk away knowing how to quickly add TypeScript to your own apps, see some of the latest features in action and most importantly, get a first-hand experience of the productivity gains it brings to your JavaScript apps.

About

Bowden Kelly
Like you, Bowden Kelly has spent a lot of time seeking better development workflows. Which editor should you use? Which tech stacks will have longevity? How do I ship faster, but with less bugs?
A few years ago Bowden packed up his web development career to pursue building better developer tools at Microsoft. Since then he has been working on the TypeScript language, Node.js editing tools, and trying to share best practices with JavaScript developers worldwide.

Understanding and Debugging Memory Leaks in Your Node.js Applications [I] - Ali Sheikh, Google

Memory leaks are hard. This talk with introduce developers to what memory leaks are, how they can exist in a garbage collected language, the available tooling that can help them understand and isolate memory leaks in their code. Specifically it will talk about heap snapshots, the new sampling heap profiler in V8, and other various other tools available in the ecosystem.

About

Ali Sheikh
Software Engineer, Google
Ali is a member of the Node.js CTC and contributes to the V8 project. At Google he dedicates a large part of his time improving the experience of running Node.js on Google Cloud Platform.

Using minikube (Kubernetes) for Local Node.js Development [I] - Troy Connor, Emerging Technologies

Learning Kubernetes is hard. Learning how to set up Kubernetes even harder. Developers have to provision a cluster from a cloud provider and have to start paying for that immediately. This can discourage developers who want to build scalable microservices. On big teams, usually, developers have a DevOps team who can take care of scalability and optimization.

When breaking apart monolithic applications, microservices will have to scale to handle the load of the incoming requests. As the application grows, so will the need for the microservices. When developing their applications, developers can run into the problem where it doesn’t work in different environments. The phrase “It works on my machine” points fingers at a bigger problem. Developers can find this frustrating and it slows down updates to the application. The developer’s workflow can prevent this by using minikube.

For large enterprise applications who use the cloud as their platform, Kubernetes has been one of the many solutions to these issues. Quickly deploy, scale, and modernize your microservices with simple commands. Minikube allows you to test this functionality without the cloud provider. As a NodeJS developer, having the functionality to develop a workflow that you would use for your production application is very valuable.

In this talk we will discuss what Kubernetes is, we will discuss the advantages of using minikube, and we will show the functionality of what Kubernetes can do with NodeJS. We will show how to scale your application, how to deploy multiple copies of your application based on metrics, and show how to master blue/green deployments to not lose any uptime during updating your application.

About

Troy Connor
Cloud Software Developer, CloudReach
Troy Connor is a Cloud Software Developer for CloudReach. He helps maintain the open source software that allows you to change node versions called N. In his spare time, he likes to play with robots, read, code, chase conferences and meetups and develop communities.

Gold Sponsor Session: VS Code: Optimize Your Node.js Development "Inner Loop" - Chris Dias, Microsoft

VS Code...Maybe you've heard about it, or you've seen your friends using it... Maybe you've tried it once or twice, or maybe you use it every single day. No matter what camp you fall into, in this session you'll learn something new about using VS Code and how to quickly build and deploy node.js applications and micro-services.

We'll configure VS Code for the "inner loop" of development - the edit, compile, debug cycle. See how VS Code provides great code editing and code navigation experiences such as semantic IntelliSense, GoTo Definition, Find All References, Linting (e.g. ESLint), and more. We will configure VS Code to enable single file debugging, gulp file debugging, mocha debugging, and both client and server side debugging in a single session. You will see how easy it is to create Docker artifacts with VS Code, how to build and deploy images, and even how to debug your node.js applications running in containers.

All of this from within a lightweight editor, in under 30 minutes!

About

Chris Dias is a Program Manager, Microsoft. Chris is a member of the VS Code team at Microsoft, where he gets to work with an incredible group of engineers who are passionate about developer tools and changing the way Microsoft does development in the open.

WebAssembly and the Future of the Web [I] - Athan Reines, Independent Software Engineer

WebAssembly has generated a significant amount of buzz since being first introduced and subsequently reaching cross-browser consensus. Several in the Node community have talked about WebAssembly allowing Node.js to fulfill the promise of the JVM, providing an efficient compile-to target with a single runtime. While WebAssembly is a significant development and will certainly affect how Node.js developers build their applications, some clarity is needed in helping developers better understand the implications WebAssembly will have on application development. To this end, this talk will inform developers as to what WebAssembly is and is not, help them understand why they should even care about WebAssembly in the first place, and enable them to make informed decisions when choosing whether to implement functionality in WebAssembly or as a Node.js add-on.

About

Athan Reines
Independent
Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA
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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 and JavaScript. For his latest open source project, see stdlib, a standard library for Node.js and Javascript: https://github.com/stdlib-js/stdlib.

What's a Wasm? - Paul Milham, WildWorks

WebAssembly (wasm) represents a potential sea change in the Javascript world. But what is it? Will it replace Javascript? Can it make my code magically faster? In this session we'll cover all the basics of wasm. We'll discuss what wasm is, how it interfaces with Javascript and how to use it. First, we'll cover wasm at a high level and walk through its binary and textual representation. Second, we'll see how it interfaces with Javascript by seeing calls to and from wasm modules. Third, we'll build a wasm module using wasm-init and C++. Wasm holds immense potential for many different applications. Developers will leave the session understanding how wasm could fit into their application and have the knowledge necessary to implement it.

About

Paul Milham
WildWorks
Lead Developer
My name is Paul Milham. I'm a lead developer at WildWorks where I spend my time using Node.js to keep the millions of kids who play Animal Jam safe. Keeping children safe online is an ever evolving challenge that requires adaptability. I love games and Javascript. Luckily the two go pretty well together and I've been able to make a career out of them. I've spoken at Node.js Interactive, Digiforge and other community events. I would like to share with the Node.js community some of the lessons I've learned in my journey scaling an online game from just hundreds, up to millions of active players.

When AI Makes Mistakes - David Luecke, FeathersJS

We all know that live demos in a conference talk don't always go as planned. But things went wrong in a very peculiar way when I introduced MySam, an open-source Siri-like "intelligent" assistant, at the JSConf in Iceland. In this talk I'd like to share the story of what happened and also dive a little into natural language processing in NodeJS and the browser.

About

David Luecke
FeathersJS
JavaScripter
Vancouver, British Columbia
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David grew up on a goat farm in Bavaria and made his way across the world to his new home in Vancouver, BC. He spent the last decade helping companies create JavaScript applications, with a particular interest in the APIs connecting the two worlds of backend and frontend which led to the creation of FeathersJS. When David is not thinking about APIs, he is trying to teach his open-source virtual assistant useful new things to do.

World-changing JS from Developing World Healthcare: HospitalRun and the JS Foundation- Joel Worrall, HospitalRun

In 2014, a small, global team of JavaScript developers [working within an NGO] began to leverage technologies like Ember, Node.js, and Electron as well as concepts like offline-first to offer free, easy-to-use, open source software for developing world healthcare. The result is HospitalRun, a recently added member project to the JS Foundation. Through the genesis of the project, the objectives that bind the community, and the impact goals and achievements thus far, consider how open source projects like HospitalRun could drive world-changing technology and human impact from the bottom up.

About

Joel Worrall
Joel Worrall currently serves as the Chief Technologist for Masterworks, an agency focused on serving local and global relief and rescue nonprofit organizations. He's also a part of the core team for HospitalRun, a JavaScript-based open source project focused on delivering free, easy-to-use software for developing world healthcare. Previously, Joel spent 8 years as the CTO and head of marketing for CURE International, a global medical nonprofit which inspired and incubated the HospitalRun project. You can read more at joelworrall.com, or you can reach Joel everywhere on the Interwebs @tangollama.