Michael Dawson is a senior software developer and technical lead at IBM who is involved in many aspects of Node.js development including working groups, releases, build infrastructure, and platform support. IBM is a founding member and platinum sponsor of the Node.js Foundation and has many employees contributing to Node.js as core collaborators and through various working groups. IBM uses Node.js extensively for its own products, services, and platforms.

1. Michael Dawson – IBM Runtime Technologies, Ottawa, Canada
Node.js Live - Boston

2. About Michael Dawson
Loves the web and building software (with Node.js!)
Senior Software Developer @ IBM
IBM Runtime Technologies Node.js Technical Lead
Node.js collaborator and CTC member
Active in LTS, build, benchmarking, api
and post-mortem working groups
Contact me:
michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com
Twitter: @mhdawson1
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-dawson-6051282

3. IBM – Involved in All things Node.js
 Involved in:
– Foundation
– Community
 Core
 Releases
 Working Groups
 Build Infrastructure
 Platform Support
– Monitoring
– Cloud Deployment
– Bundling
– Ecosystem (ex express)
 Why
– Important to our Cloud and on-prem customers
– Important to our internal product/service teams
– Important to our platforms
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4. IBM and Node.js
 Foundation
– Founding Member Node Foundation
– Platinum Corporate Membership
– Board Member – Todd Moore
 Community – Node Core
– 3 CTC members
– 9+ total collaborators
8 in top 100
– Many other people with smaller number of commits4

5. IBM and Node.js
 Release Team
– 3 members
 Build machines
– x86
– Power
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6. IBM and Node.js
 Working groups membership/leadership
– LTS - https://github.com/nodejs/lts
– Benchmarking - https://github.com/nodejs/benchmarking
https://benchmarking.nodejs.org/
– api - https://github.com/nodejs/api/
– Build - https://github.com/nodejs/build/
– Post-mortem - https://github.com/nodejs/post-mortem
– Internationalization - https://github.com/nodejs/intl
 Some Key contributions
• Internationalization (ICU)
• FIPS
• Platform support
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7. Platform Support
 Linux® on P
 Linux® on Z
 AIX
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8. Monitoring and Problem Determination
• Node Application Metrics - https://www.npmjs.com/package/appmetrics
• lightweight real-time monitoring agent
• CPU utilization, Memory Usage, Garbage Collection
• Application profiling
• Data collected accessible via an API and accessible via open source monitoring stacks
• StatsD/Graphite and ElasticSearch/Kibana
• Expandable to allow additional new npm module probes to be developed
• https://developer.ibm.com/open/node-application-metrics/
• Problem Determination
• HealthCenter,
• Garbage Collector Memory Visualizer (GCMV)
• Post Mortem
• IDDE
• Post-mortem WG efforts
• nodereport - https://github.com/nodejs/nodereport/
• llnode
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Thank You
https://developer.ibm.com/node
https://developer.ibm.com/open/node-application-metrics/
https://github.com/RuntimeTools/appmetrics
https://www.npmjs.com/package/appmetrics
https://marketplace.eclipse.org/search/site/%2522ibm%2520monitoring%2520%2522

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