MongoDB On The Road - Node+JS Interactive

October 10-12, 2018 brought 1,000 developers to Vancouver, BC, Canada for the Node+JS Interactive 2018 conference. Put on by The Linux Foundation, the conference provided talks for two days followed by a day of workshops. MongoDB was a proud Bronze Sponsor of the event. This allowed us to have a booth in the Sponsor Showcase Hall along with having a presence at the Career Fair event.

Sponsor Hall

MongoDB had a great presence at Node+JS Interactive 2018. Aydrian Howard and I from the Developer Advocacy team were on hand to answer questions. Thomas Cirri was there from our Recruiting team. By the way, we’re hiring! Dan Aprahamian from our Node.js Driver team was there along with Gregg Brewster from MongoDB University.

The Sponsor Showcase Hall was filled most of the day with people learning about all aspects of the Node.js ecosystem. The MongoDB booth was busy handing out swag and answering questions about MongoDB Atlas, MongoDB Stitch, MongoDB Charts, along with many other subjects and topics.

On Thursday, MongoDB held a drawing for a BB-8 Droid give-away which was won by Eduardo Trindade, System Analyst at A&W.

Node+JS Interactive 2018 Sessions

The schedule of session talks brought a wide variety of topics and speakers to Vancouver. Irina Shestak from MongoDB gave a great talk on HTTP/2 walking through the connection process one frame at a time and giving special attention to how Node.js implements this protocol.

Jenna Zeigen’s talk From Parentheses to Perception: How Your Code Becomes Someone Else's Reality provided some wonderful information on the path from an idea in a developer’s mind, to pixels on the screen.

There were many other talks from great speakers such as Tierney Cyren from NodeSource, Joe Karlsson from Best Buy, and Adam Baldwin from npm, just to name a few.

Node+JS Interactive 2018 Venue

Node+JS Interactive was hosted by the Vancouver Convention Center - West. Located in the West End area of Vancouver, it overlooks Vancouver Harbor and sits adjacent to the Olympic Cauldron at Jack Poole Plaza.

Vancouver Harbour is not only a busy cargo port bringing in goods for Western Canada, but it is also a heavily trafficked float plane area with seaplanes taking off and landing throughout the day. It was quite a site to be in a conference center and looking out over the harbor’s spectacular scenery and seeing the seaplanes land, taxi, and take off in the crisp and clear fall air.

Conclusion

Node.js works incredibly well with MongoDB. They’re both parts of the popular MEAN/MERN stack. If JavaScript and Node.js are of interest to you, I would highly recommend attending the next Node+JS Interactive event. The Linux Foundation did a great job, and Emily Ruf, in particular, did an amazing job organizing the event. Make sure to stop by the MongoDB booth at future events, pick up some swag, and ask questions. We truly enjoy talking with customers, current and future, about how MongoDB can save time for developers.