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From YouTube: Node.js Live (Paris) - Andy Watson, IBM Lightening Talk

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Andy Watson, who works on IBM's Runtime Technologies team, provides an overview of what IBM is doing throughout the world around Node.js development and how IBM is implementing this technology within various platforms and feature sets for customers.

You can follow Andy on Twitter @AndyRWatson.

Thank you to Opbeat for sponsoring the videos for Node.js Live Paris, and IBM for sponsoring the Node.js Live Paris event.

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I think is really exciting time for us all, with the note expand how it's really now being taken seriously as a leading run time and you truly usable by our customers within the enterprise. What I really like to do is just a few minutes just to give you a little bit of an overview on what are the hard work and efforts.

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My fellow I be Emma's are doing throughout the world, so probably the most obvious to many of you will be no bm's heavy involvement around 2014-2015 in the convergence back between I ogs ogs and the becoming founder members as part of the no foundation and very proud to have platinum corporate membership and a our position on the board in the wider community.

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We have three technical steering committee members who are active and over 10 iBM is worldwide, who regularly commit to the project a little bit about myself as I, say: I'm, a development manager from IBM personally in the UK, and we, my team, really started working around nodejs about three years ago, when we were asked to port 0 10 of node to work on the IBM power platforms. Primarily on AIX we've quickly, followed by linux, as linux was adopted as part of the open power consortium and then beyond that as well.

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We've also started bringing node to the mainframe through our system- z, linux, customers- now that up until this point are built of all largely being with that IBM and that the downloads themselves have been made available via the IBM developerworks website, but very so please, in the last few weeks, what we've managed to do start getting our first platforms delivered into the node continuous integration system.

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So, as you'll see on the note website today, look at the opponent, we can see that linux power 64 bit little endian is available for the download is a first class citizen direct from the website and created as part of the continuation bill process. We still have some work to do to get 64 bit and our zilla's system z an AI exported. We hope that that will continue over the coming months, a little bit more on the wider organization. So so far, we've had over 800 contributions in the node.js space key areas we've contributed.

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We've brought internationalization into the into the product will via ICU packages, we've got engineers working around phipps to see how we can bring phipps into the node community and we're also actively we're building evolved in the build processes and also in how we fix security violations worldwide. We also have coverage in many of the working groups, including the long-term service and support benchmarking. Post-Mortem builds security and internationalization.

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Through conversations with our customers and experience with supporting languages such as Java, we also see the importance for customers to be able to monitor real-time, the node platform and also be able to diagnose post-mortem when an if things should go wrong.

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One of the projects that we've read made available in the last six months is node application, metrics, which is a lightweight real-time monitoring agent, which allow CPU monitoring memory usage, garbage collection, application, profiling, type of eight available information available, it's available as an MPN module and as a github project, and what we're looking to do here is really collect data across all of the platforms and make it available for a common API.

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This API is fully it can be fully utilized by your own dashboards and and also using OpenStack sorcerer monitoring tools such as stats d, graphite, elasticsearch and cabana. Now the modules are available today on NPM. We also have some free tooling, which is traditionally from our Java products, but it's been expanded to also allow some very simple views of what cpu memory usage are and that's available via the Eclipse marketplace, known as health center and can be found by searching for IBM monitoring tools.

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We're also actively working in the post-mortem space as we're hearing more from customer's concerns over how. If, if a problem should happen, how can we help to contribute towards improved debugging?

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You system dump types out of memory for exceptions, performance, author, all out areas that we've been actively working with with the Java, and we want to try and see how we can bring some of that technology experience we have through to the node and community.

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Finally, we also have our IBM is, who are looking at frameworks and associated our projects and particularly Express Jas, where we've been recently providing some mentorship as the project becomes an incubator under the node foundation and also providing some engineers who are assisting the project with support and also future direction, and the roadmap towards version 5.

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So hopefully, I could give you a little bit of an insight in some of the work and our commitment to the node ecosystem, and thank you for your time and please come and see me afterwards at the reception. If you like to find out a little bit more, don't give it up. Everybody.