The Dangerous Cliffs of Node.js

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Why me?

Walmart Labs

Nordstrom Innovation Lab

HaikuDeck

MuleSoft

Classic ASP

C++

Java

.NET

iOS

Ruby on Rails

Why this topic?

The gap

How about a hike?

Crashes

Demo: Crashes

Benefit?

Impact

Deployment

Hangs

Demo: Hangs

Benefit?

Detection

non-server apps

Event loop unavailability

Demo: Event loop

Benefit?

Prevention

Detection

Error from

async call

Demo

Benefit?

Debuggability

prevention

impact mitigation

detection

debuggability

Better node.js understanding?

Hammering

remote

services

Thanks!

Questions?

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Know your libraries!