Node.js has had a transformational effect on the way we build software. However, convincing your organization to take a bet on Node.js can be difficult. My personal journey with Node.js has included convincing a few teams to take a bet on this technology, and this community. Let’s take a look at the case for Node.js we made at Google, and how you can make the case to bring it to your organization.

1. The case for Node.js
Justin Beckwith
github.com/JustinBeckwith
@justinbeckwith

3. 2007

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6. Testing was hard

7. Lack of prescriptive
patterns

8. Browser
inconsistencies

9. We were kind of bad
at JavaScript.

12. 2007

16. 2010

17. Gateway
VNC
PROXY

18. All I need to do is write some code
that creates an HTTP request with a very long timeout
and enable chunked transfer encoding. Then I’ll use another HTTP connection
to send data. Then I’ll just have to write some code in C# down at the HttpHandler level that manages
the state between these two connections, and then proxies the data over to an active VNC session living on another
machine. Oh and I guess I’ll have to handle all the connection resets, and provide a half decent API so other developers on the
team can actually use this thing.

23. Node.js made us fall back in
love with JavaScript.

25. 2015

27. Java
C++
Go
Python

28. How can we make the case
for Node.js?

30. What are the trends?

32. Lets limit that down to the
last year.

34. The #1 and #10 most popular
languages today are
JavaScript and TypeScript.

35. What about code that *gasp*
isn’t on GitHub?

38. How should we proceed?

39. Start small.

41. Measure. Improve.

44. Get involved.

48. I learned a few things.

49. Start small.

50. Solve real problems.

51. Use data.

52. Grow involvement.

54. Sarah Novotny
@sarahnovotny
Open Source Wonk
@ Google

55. THANK YOU
@justinbeckwith
@sarahnovotny