ZurichJS

• 18:00 - 18:30 -- Meet & greet
• 18:30 - 19:00 -- Carving your own path: a builder’s journey - Alex Suzuki
  Alex shares real-life lessons from his journey through multiple forms of self-employment — from freelancing and running a small agency to building and marketing his own product. You’ll get honest insights, practical tips, and a clear-eyed look at the ups and downs of each stage.
• 19:00 - 19:30 -- Load Testing with Confidence: Integration of load tests in CI/CD - Samir Akarioh
  Your application works great in development but what happens when real users flood in? Will it handle the load, or will it crash under pressure?
• 19:30 - 19:40 -- Lightning Talk open slot
• 19:40 onwards -- Meet and network with fellow JavaScript fans

#### About the Speakers

• Alex Suzuki - Alex is a software engineer with two decades of experience building software. Over the years, he's worn many hats — from full-time employee to self-employed freelance contractor, founder of a small agency, and now solo builder. He's currently focused on growing his own product, STRICH — a fast, lightweight barcode scanning library for web apps.
• Samir Akarioh - Samir is a Developer Advocate @ Gatling

#### About the Organizers

• Bogdan Ilie – Bogdan is a user advocate. He's dipped his toes into Web Development, Technical Writing, Marketing, Design, and more. That makes him uniquely predisposed to identify improvement opportunities anywhere in the chain, or come up with unique solutions to problems.
• Faris Aziz – A front-end master and React specialist, a Staff Software Engineer at Smallpdf, who’s been mentoring and inspiring devs across major conferences and open-source projects.

#### Get involved

• Have an interesting idea?
• Something missing from all meetups in this space?
• Do you have feedback?
• Wanna buy us a coffee?

There are multiple ways to get in touch:

• zurichjs.com - the source of truth for all things zurichjs
• LinkedIn - follow us for announcement posts, if that's your jam
• join our Slack -- reach out to us to get an invite!

Our goal is to create a space where everyone can bring value and feel like they are getting something out of it.

We are open to sponsorships and partnerships, so feel free to share the event and message us about opportunities.
We are also committed to fostering a respectful and psychologically safe space where anyone can share their ideas. If this is your first time speaking, or if you need help preparing for a talk, we are happy to offer guidance and support.

👉 Check out the workshop details and grab your spot here.

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This is a premium ZurichJS Pro event. All speakers are traveling from outside Zurich to join us. Please RSVP by purchasing a 10 CHF ticket through our ticket page.

Need financial support? E-mail us at hello@zurichjs.com.
We offer discounts and special rates for underrepresented groups, including those who are unemployed, changing careers, or in similar situations. We want to make sure cost is not a barrier to participation.
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For this edition, we have two confirmed PRO talks, as well as one lighting talk slot that is still available (a quick 3-5 min bit to share).

#### Agenda:

• 18:00 - 18:30 -- Meet & greet
• 18:30 - 18:55 -- Do not thrash the NodeJS Event Loop ~ Matteo Collina
  Deploying Node.js at scale is an art mastered by few. The most common problem is an exhaustion of resources that allows the application to denial of service itself. The result is Node.js systems that are massively overprovisioned, wasting enormous amounts of computing and memory - keeping most of them idle.
  In this talk, we will do some math, discover hard truths, and implement a fix.
• 19:00 - 19:25 -- Qwik Go For 💯 ~ Wout Mertens
  The bar for high-performing websites keeps rising, and it's a critical factor for both user experience and search rankings. While achieving good scores is possible, it often requires significant effort and ongoing maintenance.
  In this talk, I'll show how Qwik makes it easy to achieve top web metrics, automatically, even as your application scales.
  We'll dive into Qwik's optimizer, explore the power of resumability and JS streaming, and uncover how its reactivity system works to deliver blazing-fast web experiences. Effortlessly.
• 19:30 - 19:40 - ⚡ Lightning Talk -- TBD - Submit your proposal here
• 19:45 onwards -- Meet and network with fellow JavaScripters

#### About the speakers:

• Matteo Collina is the Co-Founder and CTO of Platformatic.dev. He is a prolific Open Source author in the JavaScript ecosystem, maintaining modules downloaded over 12 billion times a year.
  Previously, he served as Chief Software Architect at NearForm, a leading professional services company in the JavaScript space. In 2014, he defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Application Platforms for the Internet of Things”.
  He is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, focusing on streams, diagnostics, and HTTP. Matteo is the author of the fast logger Pino and the Fastify web framework.
  He is an international speaker, having presented at over 60 conferences including OpenJS World, Node.js Interactive, NodeConf.eu, NodeSummit, JSConf.Asia, WebRebels, and JsDay. He is also co-author of the book Node.js Cookbook, Third Edition published by Packt.
  In the summer, he enjoys sailing the Sirocco.
• Wout Mertens has worked in IT for several decades, with experience in Unix administration and programming at companies like Cisco, Technicolor, and StratoKit.
  When he learned about React in 2014, he recognized its potential immediately. Now, Qwik gives him that same sense of excitement and opportunity.
  As a core contributor to Qwik, Wout focuses on improving the framework and making it easy for everyone to use.
  In his talks, he aims to inspire others to explore the next big thing in web development.

#### About the organizers:

• Bogdan Ilie is a user advocate. He's dipped his toes into Web Development, Technical Writing, Marketing, Design, and more. That makes him uniquely predisposed to identify improvement opportunities anywhere in the chain, or come up with unique solutions to problems.
• Faris Aziz is a front-end master and Staff Software Engineer at Smallpdf, after his Engineering management job at Navro, a fintech company in the UK. Faris is a mentor, conference speaker, and workshop instructor, most recently at CityJS and other major conferences. He has contributed to open-source projects like Raycast and has mentored on platforms like Mentor Cruise. His projects include work on GCN, Eurosport, Discovery+, Fiit (a top UK fitness app), and he was the founding engineer of Navro in London. He also serves as a technical mentor at the Bletchley Institute.

#### Who's the awesome sponsor?

Platformatic is an open-source platform that simplifies backend development by providing tools to quickly build and deploy APIs with GraphQL, REST, and SQL capabilities, enabling developers to efficiently develop and run APIs at scale.
With growing demands of SaaS applications, the amount of API permutations has grown exponentially and has become a development bottleneck, which led large organizations to create dedicated platform API engineering teams to help teams deliver on business demands.
Platformatic simplifies API development, removing friction from the day-to-day of backend developers.

#### Get involved

• Have an interesting idea?
• Something missing from all meetups in this space?
• Do you have feedback?
• Wanna buy us a coffee?

There are multiple ways to get in touch:

• zurichjs.com - the source of truth for all things zurichjs
• LinkedIn - follow us for announcement posts, if that's your jam
• join our Slack -- reach out to us to get an invite!

Our goal is to create a space where everyone can bring value and feel like they are getting something out of it.

We are open to sponsorships and partnerships, so feel free to share the event and message us about opportunities.
We are also committed to fostering a respectful and psychologically safe space where anyone can share their ideas. If this is your first time speaking, or if you need help preparing for a talk, we are happy to offer guidance and support.