NodeJs conf IT 2016 @ desenzano del garda

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3 min readNov 11, 2016

What makes someone who has been in front of a screen coding for the whole week to wake up early, drive hours and sacrifice the weekend to talk about even more code and still feel great about it?

That’s not an easy question to answer but it’s what happens when a couple of colleagues decide to attend nodejs-conf-it.

About a year ago, Byte-Code started a shift toward microservices and javascript ecosystem on platforms other than the browser, this eventually led his employees to get involved and interested in communities and events around these topics, all of which were part of the nodejs conf agenda.

const attendees = [
  require(‘Alessandro’);
  require('Jaga');
  require('Roberto');
  require('Lorenzo');
  require('Stefano')
];NodeJsConf.init(attendees);

Keynote

The first speaker is Bryan Hughes (@nebrius) from Microsoft who talked about the history of Nodejs and the different kind of communities built around it from the beginning till now, he later introduced us the nodejs foundation hierarchy and how it operates at various levels.

Electron Workshop

All of us decided to attend the Electron workshop by Feross Aboukhadijeh (@ferros) a three-hour full immersion in which we built a simple
markdown editor from scratch.
Electron is a really powerful engine to use Node.js together with
HTML/CSS to build desktop applications that build for OSX, Windows, and Linux.
It was a really interesting workshop, you can find the source and follow along with the workshop on GitHub.
Lunch time

Lunch time

(very good buffet…)

A bit of humor is always welcome :)

Seneca

A talk from Massimiliano Mantione (@M_a_s_s_i)about Seneca, a microservices toolkit for Node.js based on command and pattern matching integration with NSQ a platform for real-time messaging.

CPU-heavy ai techniques making a living world emulation

Another great talk was “You’ve got the power?” by Diego Ferri and Andrea Ghidini (@tundo) about complex application under a big number of async/io bound requests .
They showed a nice demo in which it was simulated a sandbox living world with multiple agents which have to survive eating food (here the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/looptribe/youve-got-the-power-

Deploying node.js at scale

Luca maraschi(@lucamaraschi) talked about tools at our disposal in the migration of monoliths to microservices upring or fuge and shared his personal feelings regards some very adopted technologies that he think have much more traction than they deserve.

The Future is Now: How to Realize Your Potential as a Cyborg

Emily Rose (@nexxylove) shared some interesting internet statistic and trends, and convince us that we all of us are eventually cyborgs, ending with an interesting poem that deserves to be shared.

Goodbyes

Before leave, we tasted some great whiskey offered by NearForm and moved to Milano, with a lot of stickers, some mugs and water bottle.
It was a nice experience to share with other colleagues, old and new friends from the community.
Stay tuned for the next events recaps in a program, Codemotion Milano 2016 and DotCss/DotJS from Paris.

Written by Stefano Armenes(@0xste) and Jaga Santagostino (@kandros) for our Byte-Code conference recap series