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Tue, Apr 21, 2015 @ 06:00 PM   FREE   iHeartRadio Theater, 32 Ave of the Americas
 
     
 
 
              

  
 
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Amorphic

Sam has been developing software and tools for decades and is currently working at start-up within a large insurance company with the goal of making life insurance easy and accessible for a generation that expects everything to be online and convenient.


Amorphic is a front-to-back isomorphic stack for node.js and MongoDB. The goal of Amorphic is to let you focus on the logic of your application with minimal regard as to where your code executes. You use the same objects on the browser and the server, making calls seamlessly across the browser/server border. The state is synchronized to create the illusion that you have a single environment. The result is that you can focus more on application logic and less on platform specifics.


Pelias

Harish is a software engineer at Mapzen and is currently working on building an open source data-agnostic geocoder using node.js.


Pelias is a modular open-source geocoder using ElasticSearch for fast autocomplete and forward and reverse geocoding. It is written in node.js for modularity, streams and ease of use. Streams are like unix pipes - they handle reading/writing to relatively slow interfaces and provide a nice abstraction. With node streams, we read our geospatial data, transform them and put them in elasticsearch and not worry about handling back pressure. Writing modular software using node.js is pretty straight forward and powerful - this lets us support a mix of open datasets (such as OpenStreetMap, Geonames, and OpenAddresses) while flexible enough to also work with proprietary datasets. We believe the best way to build locally relevant and accurate geographic search is in the open--which is why we're building an open source geocoder that anyone can build and run themselves.

Nimrod

Valeri Karpov is a NodeJS Engineer at MongoDB, where he maintains the popular Mongoose ODM and several other MongoDB-related npm modules. He's also a Hacker in Residence at BookaLokal, a blogger for StrongLoop, and the author of Professional AngularJS. He blogs at <a>www.thecodebarbarian.com.</a>

Nimrod is a mostly-working port of the MongoDB shell to NodeJS. While the current MongoDB shell is sufficient for many administrative tasks, its lack of I/O, non-standard JS environment, and outdated V8 engine prevent it from being a fully-fledged scripting environment that takes advantage of the npm ecosystem. Nimrod allows you to require() in modules and do NodeJS-style file I/O, while still retaining the convenient semantics and concise syntax of the MongoDB shell.

 
 
 
 
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