The Seattle Node.js Meetup is pleased announce our meetup on Wednesday, Dec. 10 with talks on leading a new team into Node.js, creating domain-specific languages in JavaScript, and using the NSQ distributed messaging platform with Node.js. Mixpo is once again graciously hosting us downtown.
As always, you can find all things Seattle Node.js-related at the group website: http://seanode.github.io/. And you can reach out to us via email at seattlenode@gmail.com or Twitter at @seattlenode.
See you soon!
Agenda
6:30 - 7:00pm: Start with pizza and beer, courtesy of Joyent.
7:00pm - 8:30pm: Listen to some awesome talks.
8:30pm - on: Mingle, mix, chat things Node.js-related and more as we wind down.
Talks
Things I Learned While Taking a New Team into Node.js
Joseph Heck - Renasar Technologies
My team and I are all relatively new to Node.js, but not to communities. This talk is to share a retrospective of lessons learned, things I wish I’d known, a few “gotchas” and some interesting libraries that we’ve found while my whole team made the leap into Node.js and built a new product.
Joe is a founder and VP of Engineering at Renasar Technologies. Before starting Renasar, Joe was an early employee and VP of Engineering at Nebula, an early Project Technical Lead in OpenStack, and Director of Cloud and Automation at the Walt Disney Corporation.
Creating DSLs with (JavaScript) Object Literals
Federico Pereiro
Every application relies on several Domain Specific Languages: HTML templates, SQL schemas, configuration files, deployment scripts. In this talk, we will look at how we can use JavaScript’s object literals to create our own DSLs. Besides explaining the advantages of this approach, we will go through many examples, ranging from HTML generation to server provisioning. More importantly, we will discuss a couple of useful design patterns in case you want to write your own DSLs.
Federico is a full-stack JavaScript freelance developer and open source contributor. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Federico is now taking his work on the road, which brings him to distant and exotic places like Seattle. Prior to this, he was a backend developer at Hinch.as and Inaka, and before that he worked as a financial analyst.
Scaling (breaking things) using Bitly’s NSQ and Node.js
Bit.ly’s NSQ is an incredibly powerful way to process streams of data at scale. Moz has successfully used Bit.ly’s data to large scale collection of social data as well as use it for a pipeline of offline processing for Moz Local. The presentation will be partly about what NSQ is and what makes it unique, and how we used it in combination with NodeJS within Moz.
Dudley is the VP of Engineering at Moz focused on Moz Local. Dudley’s 2.5 yrs at Moz has been focused on incubating new products and extinguishing fires. Prior to Moz, I’ve done startups and worked at Google for 5 yrs on Google Voice and Chrome.
Venue / Sponsors
Mixpo is hosting us at: 520 Pike St, Suite 1600, Seattle, WA 98101
Joyent is kindly sponsoring food / beverages.