Episode 177: OSS Sustainability and NPM Module Ecosystem with Matteo Collina
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Recording date: March 17, 2022

John Papa @John_Papa)

Ward Bell @WardBell)

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin)

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker)

Matteo @MatteoCollina)

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- Narwhal)

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- AG Grid)

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Resources:

• Newsletter)
• Web Rush episode with Matteo and Fastify)
• Web Rush episode with Matteo with Node.js Optimization and Performance)
• Fastify)
• Fastify from 600k in Aug 2020 to 1.6m in Feb 2022)
• CityJS London)
• OpenJS)
• Matteo speaking at the OpenJS World keynote)
• npm)
• Node.js)
• Moving Fastify to Azure Pipelines with Matteo Collina and Damian Brady)
• Fastify ecosystem)
• Fastify on InfoQ)
• Fastify and Validation of Data)
• Article on "Forget Express")
• Fastify Hooks)
• Routing in Fastify)
• Pino logger in GitHub)
• Express Contributors)
• Fastify to Express)
• Fastify Workflows)
• Log4j vulnerabilities explained)
• OWASP top ten security issues)
• Scan your npm dependencies)

Timejumps

• 02:25) Guest introduction
• 05:25) Live vs virtual conferences
• 06:38) npm Ecosystem and Security
• 09:07) Update on Fastify
• 12:06) Sponsor: Narwhal
• 12:40) Were you able to start with this process in the beginning of Fastify?
• 15:30) Front end vs back end concerns
• 17:20) Serverless vs server based cold starts
• 22:37) How Fastify helps with security issues
• 24:05) Why is my npm modules folder so big?
• 26:56) Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 28:01) Vulnerabilities in open source
• 33:01) What do people who aren't able to code do?
• 34:01) Security tips for using node

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions).