January Meetup: Featuring Rachel Nabors and Chris Dickinson

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Happy New Year! Time for a great new year and even greater meetups.
Hang out with us at Zillow for our can't-miss line-up to kick off 2018!

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Topic 1: Alice in Web Animations API Land
by Rachel Nabors
Github (github.com/rachelnabors)| @rachelnabors | Website (http://rachelnabors.com/)

abstract:: Animation is back in the web development tool chest! We know of declarative CSS Animations and Transitions and fully featured JavaScript animation libraries like GreenSock, but there's another option: the Web Animation API!

In this talk Rachel Nabors will take you on a magical journey with Alice from Wonderland to show you how this new API is used to run the CSS Animations in your browser and how you can use it to generate and manipulate animations in your project. Colorful, interactive, useful fun for all disciplines.

bio:: Rachel Nabors began telling stories online as a teenager with her award-winning web comics. Her love of web technologies transformed into a career in front end development, where she has worked with Mozilla, the W3C, and Microsoft to build the web forward. She tends the web animation community via the Animation at Work Slack and her web animation newsletter. When she isn't traveling the world, giving talks and kissing puppies, she can be found perched in Seattle, sipping a cup of fancy tea! She recently launched Animation at Work with A Book Apart, a book on the science and challenges of using animation in web and app design to create experiences users will love.

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Topic 2: why npm built a REST framework
by Chris Dickinson
Github (twitter.com/isntitvacant) | @isntitvacant | Website (www.npmjs.com) abstract::In November 2015, npm launched a new feature: paid organizations. In the
background, we worked feverishly to support that launch, and it revealed
opportunities for improvement in how we structure our REST services.

Flash forward to December of 2017, and we've applied what we learned from that
launch to 11 of our internal services. These services power everything from
static file queueing to access control lists to billing and more. I'd like to
share the lessons we've learned, how & why we've implemented them as we have,
and how you can benefit from them as well!

By the end of this 30-minute talk you will:

Get insight into how the npm registry works
Hear project-level design insights that help a team of 11 people support the
JS ecosystem (both where we've been right as well as where we've been wrong!)
Learn how a small team supports 11 million users.
Get the first look at the tools npm uses to build the registry and its website

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