nodejsday 2020
who it's for
Node.js developers, backend developers, site reliability engineers, platform engineers, security engineers, serverless developers
topics
JavaScript prototype internals; Elastic APM instrumentation; performance hooks and heap snapshots; Prisma schema and migrations; application security best practices; zero-knowledge REST backends; serverless orchestration with Durable Functions; GraphQL JIT compilation; mercurius with LRU caching; batching loaders to avoid N+1
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| JavaScript Prototypes Behind the Scenes | Thomas Watson | 45m |
Shows exactly how new sets an object’s internal prototype to the function’s object.create blueprint and how methods live on prototypes while per-instance state… | ||
| The gentle touch of APM - how code tracing works in Node.js | Emanuil Tolev | 51m |
Shows how Elastic APM actually instruments Node.js: a small agent module required at startup hooks into frameworks or monkey‑patches libraries, emits… | ||
| Examining Observability in Node.js | Lizz Parody | 29m |
Claims that Node.js internals like performance hooks and heap snapshot give actionable data without changing code, then demonstrates external options New Relic… | ||
| Rapid and type-safe Node.js development with Prisma | Daniel Norman | 41m |
Claims rapid, type-safe Node.js development using Prisma with concrete steps and a working demo: define a Prisma schema, run Prisma Migrate to create a… | ||
| The Security Toolbox For Node | Milecia McGregor | 38m |
Covers the OASP top 10 with a concrete claim that ~60% of sites are vulnerable and drills into fixes: mandatory input validation, using json.parse instead of… | ||
| Build a Zero Knowledge backend with Node.js | Matthias Dugué | 43m |
Claims a working Zero Knowledge backend implemented as a REST API that never sees plaintext, stores and returns encrypted blobs, issues certificates and JSON… | ||
| Serverless at the end of the Universe | Simona Cotin | 39m |
Claim: serverless struggles with state so code ships data to remote stores, hurting latency and complexity. Presents research fixes like Shredder and… | ||
| GraphQL. Accelerated | Matteo Collina | 44m |
GraphQL on Node.js becomes fast by concrete changes: use mercurius with an LRU cache to avoid reparsing, benchmark with node clinic and autocannon, and… | ||
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