April SFNode

For our April edition of SFNode we have Poornima Venkatakrishnan talking about the resiliency of web applications and Hugh Kennedy on stackgl. Please RSVP if you plan on joining us.

About Poornima Venkatakrishnan
Poornima is a web developer who is passionate about all things node.js and open source. She is currently part of the team that open sourced krakenjs (www.krakenjs.com (http://www.krakenjs.com/)) and is an active contributor/ maintainer.

Abstract - Resiliency of Web Applications

In Web applications running at scale, like @ Paypal, it becomes absolutely essential to do:

• Analytics tracking

• Error monitoring and instrumentation

• Experimentation, A/B testing tracking

And hence data collection and analysis becomes very vital.In this talk I will cover efforts towards 2 different aspects of adding resilience to web applications

• Logging

• Circuit Breaking

I will go over various requirements across our node applications and how we are looking at solving them.

About Hugh Kennedy

Hugh is an Australian frontend developer and computer graphics enthusiast with several years experience using Node.js in production. He's also an avid fan of npm, browserify and their shared culture of modularity, having authored over 200 node modules that range from generating 3D geometry to analyzing application structures and managing home music servers. With a strong background in design, data visualisation and generative art, Hugh draws from this experience to enhance both the commercial and open source software he creates.

Abstract - # glslify: Bringing npm to Graphics Programming

At the core of WebGL is GLSL, a domain-specific language that allows you to write code leveraging the power of your graphics card for super speedy rendering of countless triangles and/or pixels. If you've ever seen Shadertoy ( https://www.shadertoy.com/ ), this is how they do it.glslify ( http://github.com/stackgl/glslify ) adds a Node.js-like module system on top of the language, so you can create and consume community packages on npm as easily as you can already with Node. I'll introduce you to how glslify works, why you'd want to use it and what's possible using the tool.

Schedule

6:30pm - Doors Open

7:00pm - Resiliency of Web Applications with Poornima Venkatakrishnan

7:30pm - # glslify: Bringing npm to Graphics Programming with Hugh Kennedy

8:00pm - Social time

9:00pm - Doors close