Boston Node 12

On Thursday, January 30th, at 6:00 pm, Boston Node returns for our first meetup of 2020. Join us at Lola - One Financial Center, 20th floor - for an evening of tech discussions, food, drinks, and networking.

This month we look forward to hearing from Joe Lust, Joel Lord, and Ben Harvey.

Excited to be back in 2020 and happy to be hosting at Lola this month. We're looking forward to seeing you all there!

~ Brian @codemouse
~ Sam @hammmy_sammmy

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***Event opens at 6:00 pm, talks to start around ~6:45 pm ***

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Building Simple and Power CLI Tools with Node.js & NPM, with Joe Lust @lustcoder

Node.js is common on the server, but what if you could harness it from the terminal? Building your own CLI is an easy way to extend your productivity or publish a utility to the masses. I'll discuss and demo just how quickly you can build and publish your own CLI client. We'll also discuss common CLI design patterns, best practices, and common pitfalls.

Joe Lust (@lustcoder) is a cloud-focused software engineer at testing automation startup, mabl. He's focused on building large scale microservices on FassS (AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions) using Node.js and Typescript. He also automates all the things, authoring GitHub Apps, Slack bots, CLIs, and CI/CD automation tools with NodeJs.

Previously he was an MC10 cloud lead and is the co-founder of the pharmaceutical big data company, MDDetails.com. Outside work, Joe blogs, organizes the GDG Cloud Boston Meetup and speaks at numerous meetups and conferences.

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Containerization for Software Developers, with Joel Lord @joel__lord

The end is nigh. Your application is almost ready, and you will need to deploy it. And with the deployment, the endless tweaking to get everything running in a production environment. If only there were a way to test everything in that environment first. This is where containers will come in to save the day. With a container, you not only run your code in an environment similar to the production server, but it is also the production environment. In this talk, the attendees will learn about how to create container friendly applications, how to use containers to share their code with their team, and finally, how to use those same containers to deploy to a production server with minimal effort.

Joel Lord is passionate about web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he likes to share his discoveries. He does so by traveling to various conferences all around the globe.

He graduated with a college degree in computer programming back in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he has always been in the industry. As a developer advocate with Red Hat OpenShift, he meets with developers to help them make the web a better place.

During his free time, he is usually found stargazing in a campsite somewhere or brewing a fresh batch of beer in his garage.

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**Building a Web-native Computational Notebook with Node.js**, with Ben Harvey @benrharvey

RedPoint is a free, open-source computational notebook designed for easily sharing code and interacting with APIs and webhooks. I’ll talk about how I used Node in the engineering of RedPoint, including spawning REPL child processes to evaluate code, writing a reverse proxy for HTTP and WebSocket traffic, and sandboxing Docker containers with a secure runtime.

Ben Harvey is a software engineer and co-founder of RedPoint Notebooks. When not computing, he likes learning tunes from scratchy recordings of old-time fiddlers.

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