NodeConf Argentina 2018
2018-10-18..2018-10-20
Buenos Aires, Argentina
[NodeConf Argentina 2016, NodeConf Argentina 2017, NodeConf Argentina 2018]
who it's for
Node.js developers, JavaScript developers, web platform engineers, backend engineers, performance engineers, engineering managers, tooling and build engineers
topics
peer-to-peer web with Beaker; JavaScript future language proposals; monorepos and multirepos; native Node.js addons; machine learning for art; JavaScript pattern matching; WebAssembly vs C++ performance; acoustic sensing for plants; continuous web performance monitoring with Node.js; Deno V8 interoperability; open source Node.js tracing tooling; main thread decomposition in Node.js
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Building and browsing the peer-to-peer web with the Beaker browser | Tara Vancil | 23m |
An experimental browser puts a peer-to-peer protocol (dat) into a Chromium-like UI so websites deploy with one-click deploy and no central server, files are… | ||
| Learnings from Starting a Company | Matias Woloski | 25m |
A company creating an identity-as-a-service platform grew to 5,000 customers and 400 employees by focusing on a deep recurring identity problem, investing… | ||
| Video Highlight | 01m | |
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| Back to the future of JS: the next features and amazing proposals | William Martins da Silva | 29m |
Shows concrete syntax and semantics: bind operator adds :: sugar for binding and method extraction; pipeline operator (minimal, smart/top, F# variants) threads… | ||
| Building your ideal codebase: monorepos & multirepos living in harmony | Sebastián Bogado | 24m |
Presents a pragmatic hybrid repo strategy: use a monorepo per application plus a separate shared monorepo for libraries to get isolation and reuse while… | ||
| Introduction to native extensions | Mariano Moretti | 25m |
Explains how to build Node native addons using binding.gyp and node-gyp, and how to use N-API or nan plus worker threads to move CPU-heavy work off the main… | ||
| What if Picasso was a robot? Teaching art to the machine | Isabella Silveira | 25m |
Trains a deep convolutional GAN to generate 64×64 artworks, finds Picasso yields ~1k images—too few—so crawls 220k landscapes from WikiArt, preprocesses into… | ||
| Approaching the Javascript Singularity | Istvan Smozsansky "Flaki" | 33m |
Claim: WebAssembly yields near‑native speed and is already replacing some native modules while remaining sandboxed so it cannot access serial ports or other… | ||
| Speed, Speed, Speed: Javascript vs C++ vs WebAssembly | Franziska Hinkelman | 27m |
Compares actual runtimes: computes 1,000,000 primes in JavaScript, C++ and WebAssembly and reports JavaScript within a small constant factor of C++ thanks to… | ||
| 200Hz to 16kHz - exploring the secret life of plants | Suz Hinton | 28m |
Claims that some plant roots click at 220 Hz clicks and that drought cavitation emits ultrasonic bursts above 20 kHz. Builds laser-cut “treehouse” enclosures… | ||
| Continuous web performance monitoring using Node.js | Martin Di Doménico | 19m |
A company with 300 million users implemented continuous, user-centric web performance monitoring using Node.js by running Lighthouse (headless Chrome) to… | ||
| Node.JS and the web platform | Dan Shaw | 25m |
A clear take: the web platform and Node converge around concrete additions not vague trends — worker threads in Node arrive (credited to Anna hens intend in… | ||
| Pattern matching in JavaScript | Juan Caicedo | 32m |
Explains why switch statements in JavaScript are problematic: fallthrough can trigger multiple cases, case clauses are evaluated early causing runtime errors… | ||
| Deno: an experimental approach on V8 interoperability | Matias Insaurralde | 19m |
Covers porting Deno’s V8-to-backend messaging layer from Go to Rust, reproducing file I/O round trips and implementing an HTTP module that became a PR. Names… | ||
| Tracing Node. The Open Source Edition. | Daniel Khan | 25m |
A demo app (a taps versus spaces voting page) produces a reproducible memory leak sawtooth from PM2 restarts and the talk shows how to collect response times… | ||
| Decomposition of the Main Thread in Node.js to increase throughput | Nikolay Matvienko | 23m |
Claims that decomposing Node.js main thread by offloading CPU work, logging and APM to separate processes and threads raises throughput from ~119 rps to ~1,318… | ||
| How I ended up automating my curtains and shouting at my lapto | Luke Bonaccorsi | 26m |
Builds a Raspberry Pi/Node bot called Woodhouse that actually runs lights, curtains and heating using cheap hardware and simple code; curtains use a… | ||
| Where are the women? | Dora Militaru | 33m |
Argues that numbers and network data matter: the Financial Times senior leadership is 36% female, simulations plus an HBR dataset show women have lower… | ||
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