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From YouTube: KEYNOTE: HomeAway’s Node Journey by Patrick Ritchie, Homeaway

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KEYNOTE: HomeAway’s Node Journey - Patrick Ritchie, Homeaway

How HomeAway has used Node so far, and how we see it as a game changer going forward.

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Everybody, my name is Patrick and I'm going to goo a very brief history of noted home away. The tagline for this talk is why note is right for us and why it's also probably right for you, too, you can win a prize during this talk. If you can come to me after and name every pop culture, / meme reference in this I will give you a prize there's quite a few all right, a little bit of history about a home away home only operates in the vacation rental space and way back in 2005.

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That was a super, fragmented industry. So we decided that we would fly a bunch of companies and consolidate a bit. The goal here is that if we, you know, operate all these companies, we could unify that experience make a better product for everyone.

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So we bottle these companies fast-forward 2008. What do we need to do? Build the platform? It's 2008. What do you build a platform on Java all right that took a few years.

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All right, 2013 we've got our platform everything's unified, everything's on the same same level, playing field, great products. Okay. What do we do next? Well, we start to optimize these your experience and we do that with client side. Javascript right, so we got plain required: grunt Bauer backbone, we're feeling pretty good udders about ourselves. This 2013 this is you know, hot all, right fast forward, a little bit more present day, we've got our got our platform. We've got our hutch a JavaScript, but something's still missing here, right, no jails, all right.

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So why do we choose no GS number one javascript, client and server? There's friction if you force your JavaScript developers to work on the server in some other language, too, I think fighter jets are awesome, I, don't know if y'all like fighter jets fighter pilots, do this really cool thing called, observe, orient, decide and act. This is what allows you to not fly your multi-million dollar airplane into a say. Mountain software developers do something very similar. That's called build. Measure learn and note is awesome at making build and Ezra faster.

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If you make building measure faster, you make better products for your customers, and your company is wildly successful. So that's written up to three.

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You seen this slide before note has, by far the best open source ecosystem. We totally can use all this stuff and I have to write it ourselves. That's great for waiting, really really sucks, um so we've got a sink I! Oh no, um why wait like it? Why would any language force you to wait on like an async call? So since five horizontal scaling note is really really good, it, like nice, small, isolated pieces of code, that court scale horizontally very nicely six last, but definitely not least jobs.

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Some of the smartest engineers in the world want to work on note, and if we don't let them use, no, they don't come work for us. So all you find people in the room now you can come work for us because we use note and don't just take my word for it. These are the job trends from. Indeed this is the growth percentage of no jobs, so you all definitely made the right choice.

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All right. So we've got this plan, we notice the right thing for us. How are we going to get there? First, we are going to double down on inner source. Why reinvent something that someone is already done?

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Go ahead and perfect it, a huge part of that is also contributing back to open source and eventually, we very much hope to open source our own modules that hot technology stack from 2013 is going to get a bit of a refresh power is out in favor of NPM were ringing and happy j/s web packing favorite require and ESX via Babel there's a bunch of other stuff we're going to be using, but we all this is JavaScript, so this is going to change so I'm not gonna, go just so much you tire.

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How are we going to play this stuff well, Oliver know tops, are dr. eyes they deploy out to mesa so say on amazon and we've got this shiny, new CD and tool called fastly.

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Now you might get the sense from this talk that I'm, somehow anti, Java or I want to take note and replace everything Java with it, and that's that's really. What I don't see this node movement about or JavaScript? What I really want is for home away to become a polyglot company. There's a lot of great Java out there today at home away and it's great for a lot.

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A lot of things javascript in node is also great for a lot of things, and so really this is about becoming polyglot and being able to use the right tool for the right job or else using Scala, I'm sure we'll find something else in the future. But we don't want to be just a Java shop, so 2017 is going to be epic.

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Thank you very much.