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Anna re-builds a simple Node.js core feature from scratch on stage, giving insight into the internals of Node.js and the process around making changes to Node core. Anna is part of the Research Team at NearForm. She is a seasoned software developer and maintainer of Node.js Core, known for major Node.js features such as Workers,...

We implemented the QUIC protocol for Node.js. Here’s how we did it, why, and a look at the fun things you can do with it. James Snell is Head of Research at NearForm. He has 20+ years' experience in the software industry and is a well-known figure in the global Node.js community. He has been an...

It’s been weeks and the organization you work for seems to be slowly turning against you. At least that’s what it feels like. User experience is poor because of slow API’s, sales are being missed, performance-linked SEO heuristics are causing a drop in page ranking. Mobile users have all but given up. Operations have reported...

React is a hugely popular frontend framework that revolutionized the frontend development world. React is built primarily for the browser, while Node has fundamentally different operational constraints to the browser. As a Principal Architect and Consultant it has become painfully clear that React's Server-Side Rendering is a performance bottleneck for web backends around the world....

There was a time when Node.js streams were all the rage but over time the Node.js Core Streams codebase became extremely complex and hard to understand. Worse still, WHATWG introduced an API for browser Streams. The two Streams API’s are incompatible with each other and both are complex and leaky. In this talk, a Node.js...

In Matteo's journey through nodeland, he always wondered about the cost of his abstractions. Express, Hapi, Restify, or just plain Node.js core? require (‘http’) can reach 44k requests/sec, Express 28k, and Hapi 21k. Matteo began a journey to write a HTTP framework with extremely low overhead, and Fastify was born. With its ability to reach...

At 10am on Black Friday, your phone rings: the new JS application you deployed came under too much load, and the site has gone down! Your employer is losing sales opportunities... your employer is losing money! But you don’t lose your cool. You log into your cloud provider and tweak your autoscaling settings. Now the...

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

The web is changing every day and it’s so hard to follow and implement all the new and fancy stuff that is being built. Cool new frameworks, libraries, methodologies and new approaches to solving problems. Usually is not that easy to deprecate some old technology and migrate to the new one. There are not many...