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The Node (and more) Banter — 82 episodes

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No, we should not distribute TypeScript files

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NodeConf EU Came Back. Nobody Mentioned AI.

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Do You Still Read Code Written by AI?

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The Sandbox Was Fine. JavaScript Wasn't

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State Without a Landlord

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Imagine a world where npm...

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The HTTP/2 Bugs Hiding in Plain Sight

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Will AI Kill the Framework?

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Every Week the Same Spike. Every Week Your Autoscaler Is Surprised.

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Who Gets to Decide When You Can Use AI?

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Should You Block the Event Loop?

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Nitro Builds the Server. Who Runs the Fleet?

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Your Bug Fix Will Never Reach the Runs That Need It

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Are Your AI Agents Really Production Ready?

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Is AI Saving Open Source Or Just Using It?

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Your Node.js Gateway It's Doing Twice the Work

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How Do You Build Skew Protection? Let's unpack it

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Why Shipping Fast Breaks Your Users (and How to Stop It)

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Node.js Left 26% Performance on the Table for 10 Years

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Performance/Memory tradeoff. Can we have both instead?

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How Do We Scale Rate Limiting in Node.js?

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Requests, Limits, and the Throttling Trap: K8s Resources for Node.js

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Should We Rewrite Node.js in Rust?

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We Ran DOOM in a Node.js Terminal. Now There's No Excuse for Your Legacy Native Code (with Paolo Insogna)

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Predictive Autoscaling for Node.js: Why Reactive Systems Are Costing You More Than You Think

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Sandboxing Ai Agents in Kubernetes: Why Regina Uses eBPF and Not a VM

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Ai Agents, Kubernetes, and the Sandbox That Now Runs Inside Your Cluster

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TanStack Start, AI, and Performance: Rethinking Full-Stack Architecture (with Tanner Linsley)

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Skills, Agents & the Setup That Actually Works for AI-assisted JS Development

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Bringing @workflow to your Kubernetes

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Node.js VFS: Unlocking Dynamic Code, Testing, and Multi-Tenancy

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Why Node.js Is the Critical Enabler for AI Applications

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Kubernetes Finally Gets Vercel-Style Deployment Safety

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From Black Box to Transparent: Building Auditable AI Apps

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Double the Density. Half the Memory (with James Snell)

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Caching in the Enterprise: Why Most Companies Aren’t Doing It

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HTTP, Queues, Actors: Watt Keeps Node.js Running Smoothly

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Scaling Node.js with the Right Signals: ELU, Kafka, and Kubernetes

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GraphQL in the Enterprise: Debunking the Myths About Its 'Niche' Problem

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When Recursion Crashes Your App: The Async Hooks DoS Nobody Expected

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The JAMstack Is Dead. Long Live the Runtime!

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Inside the React RCE: What the Flight Vulnerability Really Reveals

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The Node.js (R)evolution started - AWS just made it official

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93% Faster Next.js: What Our Benchmarks Really Reveal About Next.js at Scale

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When Rendering Blocks: How Next.js Internals Stress the Node.js Event Loop

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Next.js at Scale: The Hidden Challenges of Enterprise Adoption

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React's New Era: Compiler Magic, Native Architecture, and Foundation Shift

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Workflow Wars: From Kafka Chaos to Durable Dreams

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The Node (& More) Banter: Special — The Best of Node.js Conversations

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Seeing the Full Picture: Heap Profiling for Node.js Apps

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Node.js Loves Python: Running ASGI Apps Inside Your Node.js Services

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Inside the Latest npm Attack (with Feross Aboukhadijeh)

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The Myths (and Costs) of Running Node.js on Kubernetes

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From Reactive to Predictive: Smarter Node.js Operations at Scale

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Type-Safe API Clients: The Future of Integration

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The Cost of Not Updating Node.js (with Erick Wendel)

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Reading the Fire: Flamegraphs and the Hunt for Node.js Bottlenecks

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Stop Reinventing the Wheel: Mastering HTTP Caching

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The danger of SetImmediate

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The Hidden Cost of Async Context in Node.js (with Bryan English)

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Stateful by Design: Rethinking Team AI Workflows with AI-Warp

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MCP: The New Interface of the AI Stack (with Alex Olivier)

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The Illusion of Standardization: Templating Gone Wild

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The Hidden Cost of the Sidecar Pattern (with Roberto Bianchi)

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Runtime Composition: The Missing Layer

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The Platform Trap

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Make vs Build: The Architecture Fork

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Your Stack Is Charging You

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The BFF Pattern: Glue or Liability?

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Node loves PHP: Reuniting Web’s Power Duo for the Microservices Era

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From Sensors to Sentience: Making APIs AI-Ready in the Age of Smart Devices

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Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) and Event Sourcing

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Microservices and Kafka

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A deep dive into the OpenAPI Specification

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Distributed Systems Series: Authentication and Authorization Part 2

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Distributed Systems Series: Authentication and Authorization Part 1

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A Deep Dive into Fastify with Tomas Della Vedova

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How do I maintain services in a distributed system?

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Scaling Node.js: Microservices & Kubernetes

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Deploying Node.js on AWS EKS....but make it scalable!

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Unpacking Config & Env Variables in Node.js

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A guide to building stateful distributed systems