What separates an amateur JavaScript coder from a Node.js Architect? According to Hunter Loftis, who ran Heroku’s Node.js platform and now manages their Languages team, the answer is robustness: how well do you and your team trust your production apps?
Node comes with unique engineering requirements – robust node apps tend to handle processes, concurrency, signals, monitoring, and state in similar ways. Heroku hosts thousands of Node.js applications supported by the Languages team, demonstrating hundreds of different approaches that achieve various levels of success. They’ve explored the trends to see what really works.
This presentation explores what it takes to make a Node.js service start fast, stay up, and handle all situations with grace.