npm weekly #120: A new Customer Convo with Elsevier, learn the “A”s from our AMA, plus get some npm socks!

npm + Elsevier = organized APIs

We continued our series of conversations with npm Enterprise and private packages customers by chatting with Marcus Noble of Elsevier.

Elsevier is an international multimedia publishing business that started back in 1880. These days, they’re an industry leader in research and information analytics. In this Customer Convo, Marcus shares how Elsevier uses private packages to keep a wealth of information organized.

We’re hiring a VP of Sales!

If you have an entrepreneurial mindset and experience selling software, we want to hear from you. You’ll be in charge of showing the world how npm’s products can make developers faster, happier, and more productive, generating real business value by reducing friction.

Take a look at the full details and get in your application in before the deadline on Friday, November 17.

Solve your imaginary scaling problems with this video

Laurie Voss was on hand at ThunderPlains in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to present Solving Imaginary Scaling Problems, at scale. And since the awesome folks at ThunderPlains have already released the video, you can watch and enjoy it, almost as if you were there.

Free socks are even better this time of year

Photo by Aurélio Hekert/@aurium

You know the drill. Or, if you don’t, hello and welcome to your chance to get free npm socks. All you have to do is 1) fix some bugs, and 2) get some socks. It’s that easy! So, what are you waiting for?

Here’s the A’s from our AMA

You asked and we answered! Check out CJ Silverio’s responses to your questions in yesterday’s npm AMA with Hashnode. For questions about cipm, Yarn, ES modules, and the heated emoji cheeseburger debate, check out CJ’s answers and learn more about npm.

Recap npm over the past year

Earlier this week, Rebecca Turner was at NodeConf EU in Kilkenny, Ireland to talk about npm over the past year. The talk, called npm: paster, presenter, futurer, provides a great overview of what the npm engineering team has been up to and what they’ll be up to next.

What we’re reading: That delicate line between security and convenience

In this post, software engineer Mark Bessey delves into an iOS permissions flaw which would “allow applications to take your picture without you being aware.” Mark uses this example to explore the tech media’s propensity for sensationalizing news and the tradeoffs made between security and user convenience.

npm stickers were a hit at NodeConf EU

We just had to share these wombat stickers from NodeConf EU with y’all. Make sure to say hi to npm folks at upcoming events, and you could take home some cute swag!

Get free socks! Just fix some bugs.

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