NodeConfEU 2015
2015-09-06..2015-09-09
Waterford, Ireland
who it's for
node.js developers, backend developers, devops engineers, open source contributors, embedded hardware developers, performance engineers, community organisers
topics
V8 CPU and heap profiling; distributed Docker volumes management; contributing to Node core; observable Node.js applications; reverse engineering AirPlay protocols; migrating legacy platforms to Node; deterministic dependency management; NodeBots and hardware hacking; Node for musical performance; Node security and hardening; user-centric data control tools
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Highlights | 06m | |
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| Open Source Talk | Danese Cooper | 26m |
Node.js now has a foundation that is handling money, trademarks and governance so technical groups can work; it hired Michael as community manager and sets up… | ||
| Node.js and Digital Transformation made for each other | Richard Rodger | 25m |
Claims concrete results: PayPal measured twice as fast when using Node, the module system accounts for about half the platform’s advantage, and static-analysis… | ||
| Distributed Docker Volumes Fun | Taron Foxworth | 16m |
A small tool called sink tars a Docker volume every few seconds, pushes the tarballs into the dat repository, and a slave untars them into a second host… | ||
| Hexagonal Sticker as a Service | Yosuke Furukawa | 19m |
A live hexagonal-sticker service called Hexi lets users upload from mobile, crop and style a 5.08×4.39 cm hex then publish for worldwide print; uploads trigger… | ||
| Dig Deep V8 profiling | Mike Tunnicliffe | 23m |
Builds a native Node.js add-on with node-gyp and uses the V8 CPU profiler API to start/stop sampling from C++, sets the sampling interval (defaults to 1 ms)… | ||
| Hacking the Chipson | Suz Hinton | 22m |
Claims a Node.js reimplementation of the AVR toolchain that replaces the monolithic avrdude (single <500KB executable, 16 years old) with modular packages… | ||
| Node on Guard! | Michael Dawson | 15m |
A home alarm system is built from a Raspberry Pi bridging cheap 433 MHz sensors and actuators to cloud Docker containers via MQTT bridge, with the Pi running… | ||
| Reverse Engineering Airplay | Thomas Watson | 21m |
Claims that AirPlay is fully reverse-engineered AirPlay enough to emulate an Apple TV by advertising services on the network, with only the needed ports… | ||
| Living Tissue Over a Rusty Endoskeleton | István Szmozsánszky "Flaki" | 24m |
Rust runs on a Tessel prototype as a compiled native component, with a working proof‑of‑concept demonstrated on Twitter; code requires cross‑compiling or… | ||
| Cyborgs | Emily Rose | 20m |
Claims that internet traffic is already majority automated with 61% non-human traffic (51% in 2013), then playfully extrapolates to absurd numbers while citing… | ||
| Observable Node.js Applications | Yunong Xiao | 22m |
Claims that Netflix runs its site on Node.js at ~60 million subscribers and shows concrete tooling: Restify for HTTP with auto logs and request capture stream… | ||
| NodeBots, Community, and Lights | Kassandra Perch | 14m |
Personal account of NodeBots community growth plus concrete claims: community enforces a Code of Conduct, runs projects on GitHub and Gitter, and mixes… | ||
| Migrating from legacy platforms to node | Katie Stockton Roberts | 19m |
BBC Food moves from a decade‑old PHP stack to Node with a route‑by‑route rollout, keeping the legacy app live while replacing pages. A small Heston… | ||
| The Mad Science of Node | Trevor Norris | 24m |
Examples include a shared ArrayBuffer pointer that bypasses C↔JS overhead and saves about 30,000 extra JS calls per second for heavy crypto loads and lands in… | ||
| Contributing to Node Core | Jeremiah Senkpiel | 22m |
This lays out concrete entry points: Node core has about 44 collaborators and 15 TSC members, a Foundation org with ~365 contributors, and a release team that… | ||
| The Magic Dump | Luca Maraschi | 25m |
Nighttime production outage on AWS turns into a forensic session using DTrace and MDB on SmartOS; 200 concurrent requests and 1 GB core dumps reveal a handler… | ||
| Dependency Hell Just Froze Over | Stephan Bönnemann | 16m |
Node/npm ecosystem contains 180,000 modules and roughly 50,000 publishers, and that scale both enables productivity and creates breakage. A release-automation… | ||
| Putting You In Charge of Your Data | Matthew Podwysocki | 21m |
Claim: phones form a local peer web that syncs data and identities without cloud or cellular, intended to protect people in offline or surveilled settings… | ||
| Node & Musical Performance | Hugh Rawlinson | 21m |
Shows a concrete stack: node Web Audio API + a Maeda real-time feature extractor that emits energy RMS spectral centroid and ZCR, feeding feature-based… | ||
| Mobile Application Platform | Micheal O'Foghlu | 18m |
Claim: Node.js has powered the Red Hat mobile backend since 2011 and is deployed as lightweight proxies that evolve into business-logic microservices… | ||
| Panel Discussion | Mikael Rogers, Danese Cooper, Todd Moore, Brian McCalister, Gianugo Rabellino | 42m |
Explains that the iojs Github org is renamed to nodejs and that working groups, contribution policies and a new website already exist; describes governance… | ||
| A Journey From Computing in Science to Science in Computing | Travis Smith | 10m |
Prototype that tells when the moon is visible and displays it on a wall-mounted screen. Uses HipChat chatops for queries, Google geocoding for… | ||
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