SESSION + Live Q&A
Enterprise Node.JS Apps in 2018
This talk is a candid and entertaining look at challenges facing node.js app developers in 2018. Reflecting on experiences building PayPal’s Send Money app we’ll look at how we respond to memory leaks, server crashes and bugs that only seem to reproduce on production. I’ll also address how to keep up with the ever-changing JavaScript ecosystem.
With those challenges as the backdrop this talk will focus on techniques and patterns we’ve grown to depend on including: Typed JavaScript, Node’s built-in inspector module, async/await, error handling best practices and building for change. We’re excited about how we’re using node at PayPal and hope you can learn from our experience and scale.
Speaker
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Jamund Ferguson
JS Architect @PayPal
Jamund Ferguson is a JavaScript architect at PayPal. He loves to look at how following patterns consistently can prevent bugs in applications. He’s previously contributed to the ESLint and StandardJS open-source projects and has as of late become a fan of FlowType and TypeScript. He is married...
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