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Greetings Boston Javascript community! We're back again for another month of awesome talks and great community. Join us again at Autodesk on Tuesday November 22 right before you settle into a turkey-induced Thanksgiving food coma.

We have some amazing talks this month and I am super excited to have everyone here, and to be back with our friends at Autodesk. I look forward to seeing you there!

• Brian

Jeff Whelpley and Michael Whelpley

Building Multi-platform Bots with Node.js

Conversational UI is the latest old paradigm that has become all the rage. Unlike the old IRC days, however, all these new messaging platforms like Facebook Messenger or Slack or Amazon Alexa make it really easy for you to build a sophisticated, smart bot that can interact with humans using NLP and Machine Learning. In this talk, Jeff and Michael will give a lay of the land and then dive into some examples of bot integrations with some of the biggest messaging platforms.

Jeff (@jeffwhelpley (https://twitter.com/jeffwhelpley)) is the CTO of GetHuman, co-organizer of the Boston Angular meetup, Google Developer Expert, Angular core contributor and host of the AngularAir podcast. Michael (@mv_whelpley (https://twitter.com/mv_whelpley)) is an expert chef who's recently taken a pivot to the walk the coding path, and who has lately been obsessed with building bots.

Sabin Thomas

Secure Node.js infrastructure

In this talk, I hope to share insight from our early steps in architecting a highly scalable, fault tolerant and secure code analysis platform on the Node.js stack. We will cover approaches to meticulous evaluation of PaaS vendors, how to implement data isolation strategies in common Node.js data stores, encryption key rotation and storage strategies, secure dependency deployment strategies, Node.js container orchestration: Dos and Donts and finally Node.js container security: Dos and Donts.

Sabin Thomas (@sabinmthomas (https://twitter.com/sabinmthomas)) has over a decade of experience in managing and architecting high throughput transactional systems in Security, Enterprise software, eCommerce, Search, Advertising and Developer Tools. Sabin currently leads the engineering and devOps efforts at Codiscope. Sabin holds an M.S in Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sabin is a huge proponent of Node.js.

Alex Tsepkov

Intelligent Compilers

Why type detection and compile-time errors are good; why hybrid-typing beats both, static and dynamic; and why it took us so long to realize it. Case studies include: TypeScript, Flow, Python, RapydScript. What can compilers do at compile time to make experience better at runtime.

Alex (@ATsepkov (https://twitter.com/ATsepkov)) is a Tech Lead at Rakuten and a full-stack developer who enjoys building JavaScript projects for fun. He's been writing JavaScript since 2009 and maintaining his own compiler (RapydScript) since 2011, way before Babel and TypeScript made this ecosystem popular.