Business-of-Node.txt

NodeSummit, San Francisco, CA, Wed 27 Jul 2016

Joe McCann, CEO, NodeSource
@joemccann

NodeSource enterprise Node.js.
Most core contributors.
Paying people to work on Node.
NSolid, Node plus services around it.
Why use Node.js?
  - Innovation
  - Productivity
  - Developer joy
  - Hiring/retaining talent, we do Node here
  - Cost savings
Desire for agility.
Every company is a technology company now.
Patterns being used:
  - Frontend/backend
  - API proxy to legacy systems
  - Containers/Kubernetes
  - Microservices
  - Functions as a service, serverless
  - Conversational/messaging apps, bots
AWS lambda, half are written in Node.
Success stories with Node.
GoPro, hardware/media company:
  - Docker and Node.js
  - Deploy hundreds of times per day
  - New developers push to production their first day
NASA
CapitalOne:
  - Thousands of developers
  - Node, lack of context switching front-end/back-end
  - 5000 developers using Node
Intuit:
  - Can't rip and replace monolith
  - Piece by piece improvement
  - Move quickly, but satisfy users
Where is Node headed?
electron.io early adopters.
Will see many more apps written with electron.
Investment banking space.
npm
Hardware, Intel Edison, Tessel.
Still trying to tease out IoT, Node will follow.
NodeSource, innovating the commercial space.