Node.js microservices with Kubernetes

The Seattle Node.js Meetup is pleased to announce our meetup on Wednesday, May 16th, with two fantastic speakers discussing writing multi-cloud Node.js applications with Kubernetes.

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 (https://twitter.com/seattlenode).

See you soon!

Agenda

• 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Doors open, hang out with your fellow developers. Grab some snacks and beverages courtesy of Textio.

• 7:00pm - 8:10pm: Learn how to build out production, multi-cloud Node.js microservices!

• 8:15pm - 8:30pm-ish: Mingle, mix, chat things Node.js-related and more as we wind down.

Speakers

Shubhra Kar (https://twitter.com/shubhrakar) - VP of Product Marketing, Joyent (https://www.joyent.com/)

Shubhra Kar is currently the VP of Emerging Products at Joyent (a Samsung company) and has been a long term proponent of open source technologies. He has taken a lead in bringing together the Node and Docker communities with efforts like the Node.js & Docker Innovator program and Kubernetes on Triton.

Al Tsang (https://twitter.com/altsang) - CEO, LunchBadger (https://www.lunchbadger.com/)

Al has been a technology practitioner for over two decades with enterprise and consumer experience at scale. Al is widely recognized by the developer community and industry analysts as a thought leader and contributor. Prior to LunchBadger, he co-founded StrongLoop (acquired by IBM, 2015) as CTO to help bring new generation cloud technologies like Node.js to market. Al is the creator of LoopBack, a leading open source Node.js framework for enterprise APIs.

Open Source Express.js with Express Gateway (https://www.express-gateway.io) on Kubernetes

Dig deep into API gateways and learn how you can orchestrate multi-cloud Kubernetes with a hands-on demo. Through this talk, we’ll cover:

• What is an API Gateway and why it is so important for microservices

• How to implement an open source API Gateway

• How to get up and running on multi-cloud Kubernetes

We love building Node.js projects on Kubernetes and you will too!

Sponsor

Textio (https://textio.com/) has graciously agreed to host the event.

Textio is located at 920 5th Ave Suite 2300, Seattle, WA 98104 in the Madison Centre building at 5th and Madison in downtown Seattle, across the corner from the Seattle Public Library. The event space is on the 23rd floor, accessible through the mid-rise elevator bank inside the building. People will be stationed at the 5th Ave. entrance to Madison Centre to let you in the building.

For parking, here are a few of the nearby options available:

• Madison Centre (the building) at 5th and Marion

• Renaissance hotel (https://en.parkopedia.com/parking/underground/renaissance_seattle_hotel/98104/seattle) next door to the building

• Seattle Public Library (http://www.spl.org/locations/central-library/cen-getting-there-and-parking/cen-parking-and-bikes), 465 Spring St. Open 7am-9pm.