Don't Let Just Node.js Take the Blame! - Daniel Khan
Abstract
Most likely you are choosing Node.js because it has the reputation to be super-fast, easy to use and you heard a lot of success stories at meetups and conferences. Sure you did performance and scalability tests which confirmed that your decision was correct to go with Node.js.
What Daniel has seen is that in enterprise environments Node.js often acts as the (often microservice based) gluing tier that connects legacy services to modern offerings like mobile apps or your HTML5 SPA (Single Page Apps) via a REST API Layer.
This means that once you integrate your application into the company infrastructure, connect it to internal & external services and go productive you may be the first person to be blamed because "the website is slow" or even better "something broke – there is an error we have not seen before". But who knows if in fact a service consumed or brokered by Node or a database is slow? In this session Daniel will cover - how to trace down problems inside Node - the challenges operations is facing in todays highly heterogeneous applications - how to protect the boundaries of your service to pinpoint problems in other tiers - new tracing features in upcoming versions of Node.
Bio
Pragmatic fullstack engineer from BGP to AJAX. Speaker, mentor and course author. I am leading the Node.js technology efforts of Dynatrace. Member of Node.js Diagnostics WG. Let's chat about the old days, todays cutting edge technologies, (web) performance ... you name it.