#LNM - Node.js with Kafka and GraphQL

Hey there, we're looking forward to hosting another London NodeJS Meetup with 3 great talks!

1. Anna Doubková - (Software Engineer @ Hive, British Gas) https://twitter.com/lithinn

Gotchas in Serverless Framework

Did you know it's not very hard to hit a cap of CloudFormation resources? Or that file size changes drastically when packing your code with webpack without correct settings? In this talk, you'll learn how to use Serverless Framework on a large production scale without having to figure out all these things the hard way.

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2. Gaetano Checinski (Software Engineer @ YLD) https://github.com/nikhedonia

GraphQL - Why and How

A introduction to GraphQL. We will discuss what problem it solves how it compares to traditional REST, how to get a GraphQL server running with serveral code examples

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3. Abhishek Gupta (Product Engineer @ Hubble)
   https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhishek-gupta-42476a5b/

Intro to Kafka with Node.js Introduction to Kafka for Node developers, discussing the advantages of using Kafka for real-time event processing, and comparing it with different messaging queues.

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Thank you our sponsors:

YLD
https://twitter.com/YLDio

YLD is one of London’s fastest growing software engineering consultancies building exciting products and platforms in React / Node for Trainline, Vogue, The Economists and many more.

The team is committed the open source community aiming to create a long standing engineering culture and delivery capability in each piece of work.

YLD is looking for React / Node / Devops engineers to join the team: https://yld.breezy.hr/

Watcj Tech Talks YLD youtube channel for more talks on React and Node:
https://www.youtube.com/TechTalksYLD

Join the conversation:

• Twitter @YLDio (https://twitter.com/YLDio)
• LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/yld)

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Hive, British Gas
https://twitter.com/HiveHomeUK

Thank you Hive for hosting the meetup and providing some awesome nibbles and drinks!