DevOps.js Conf 2021
who it's for
frontend engineers, build engineers, devops engineers, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, release engineers, engineering managers
topics
CI/CD for microservices; infrastructure as code; feature flagging strategies; mono-repo vs multi-repo; Yarn package manager deep dive; Parcel 2 bundler; Actions for Node.js apps; JAMstack deployment platforms; React site deployments; dynamic edge computing; incremental JS build pipelines; build-step ownership
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Yarn in Depth: Why & How | Maël Nison | 21m |
Yarn claims to be a project manager not just a package manager and backs that with specifics: builds move from Webpack to ESBuild, the repo uses zero-installs… | ||
| Infra vs Apps – Where are my Pipelines? | Julie Ng | 22m |
Shows concrete CI/CD tradeoffs: use Jenkins or GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps, run end-to-end tests to gate promotion, and expect pushes pull requests and… | ||
| Build your JS Pipeline in Incremental Fashion | Illya Klymov | 21m |
Argues that projects adopt CI/CD incrementally by starting with auto devops then customizing pipelines, using GitLab CI, Docker and Kubernetes, ESLint… | ||
| Software Architectures Gone Wild | Jamie Maria Schouren | 18m |
Compares monolith, headless and service‑oriented patterns with concrete numbers and a live integration demo: a middleware plus GraphQL middleware that wires… | ||
| Increase App Confidence Using CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code | Angel Rivera | 25m |
Claim: a single CI run provisions infrastructure, deploys a Docker image, runs live smoke tests against the real environment and destroys the resources… | ||
| Automate React Site Deployments from GitHub to | Lukonde Mwila | 27m |
Sets up a concrete CI/CD pipeline that pulls from GitHub, runs npm test inside CodePipeline & CodeBuild, and copies the npm build output to an S3 bucket served… | ||
| Owning your Build-step – Owning your Code | Lukas Taegert-Atkinson | 22m |
Bundling with RollupJS actually trims real costs: a small web app drops from 18.3s → 7.5s cold load by avoiding the network waterfall, and a Node/Docker… | ||
| How to Build CI/CD Pipelines for a Microservices Applicatio | Sasha Czarkowski Rosenbaum | 21m |
Explains building CI/CD for microservices on OpenShift using Tekton pipelines to run pipeline steps as containers, push built container images to an image… | ||
| Actions for Node.js Apps | Thomas Hunter II | 21m |
YAML workflows live in .github/workflows and demonstrate concrete steps: use actions/checkout@v2 and actions/setup-node@v2 to install Node LTS, run npm install… | ||
| The Rise of the Dynamic Edge | Glen Maddern | 21m |
Claim: running full apps on the edge cuts latency and simplifies ops. Uses Cloudflare Workers (200+ locations, V8 isolates, 1 MB script limit, no cold starts)… | ||
| The Art of Feature Flagging | Dianing Yudono | 08m |
Claims that feature flags enable continuous integration and safe continuous deployment by shipping half-baked code dormant in production and toggling behavior… | ||
| JAM Stack Deployment Platforms and Performance Comparison | Nacho Anaya | 08m |
A small benchmarking app deploys the exact same static Next.js site to Vercel, Netlify, Firebase, Render, GitHub Pages and Surge and measures time to first… | ||
| Parcel 2: the Automagical Bundler | Jasper De Moor | 08m |
Parcel 2 is a ground-up rewrite that claims more than 2x faster builds by using caching and CPU-parallel workers, and it proves scale with memory improvements… | ||
| ’s Journey in Building and Deploying Frond-end Code | Erik van der Voort | 07m |
Starts from ad hoc deployments, moves to an Angular CI/CD that served more than 700 modules and enforced a single build flavor, then to a Polymer/web‑component… | ||
| DevOps for Frontend: beyond Desktop Browsers | Max Gallo | 19m |
DAZN applies DevOps to frontend by building a platform layer that abstracts device APIs at runtime, adds a standardized developer command npm run dev and runs… | ||
| What's New in | Darcy Clarke | 17m |
npm reports ~125 billion monthly downloads and ~700 CLI contributors and ships weekly. npm@7 is GA and npm@7 GA upgrades package-lock to a new schema, installs… | ||
| Panel discussion: Mono-repo Vs. Multi-repo Vs. Hybrid | Lukonde Mwila, Angel Rivera, Julie Ng, Victor Savkin, Nikolay Matvienko | 15m |
Panelists argue concrete tradeoffs: monorepo wins at coordination when a system has dozens of packages (they cite ~20 nodes and scaling pains beyond that)… | ||
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