• What does it mean to be Serverless? 
• Since platform as a service.
• Microservice on Docker 
• Firebase
• “no backend” 
• Backend systems 
• Cloud functions and failure in systems 
• How do you start to think about a serverless system? 
• How do decide what to do?
• AWS Lambda 
• Working in a different vendor
• Node 4 
• Programming JS to deploy 
• Using libraries for NPM
• How is works with AWS Lambda
• Where is the database?
• More point of failure? 
• Calls to Slack?
• Authentication
• Micro Services
• Elastic Bean Stalk
• Static Assets, S3, Managing
• Testing the services 
• Integration testing
• And much more! 

• @garethmcc
• @expatexplore
• gareth.mccumskey.com
• https://github.com/garethmcc
• serverless.com

• Serverless Architectures 
• NG-BE Conference 

• Documentary on Enron
• Hard Thing about Hard Things 

• Serverless Framework
• The Storm Light Achieves 
• Avengers: Infinity War

• Building MicroServices 
• Skeptics Guide To The Universe Podcast
• Expate Explore 

• Wonder -  Movie
• Gloom In Space - Board Game 

MJS 038: Peter Cooper

Panel: 

Charles Max Wood

Guest: Peter Cooper

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Peter Cooper. Peter was one the original panelist on Ruby Rogues and JavaScript Jabber. Currently, Peter runs several weekly new letters on JS, Ruby, Go, React, etc. Peter talks about his journey as a programmer, which started at an early age tinkering with his father’s computer at home. Peter describes the beginning as a hobby until he learned the skills to being programming on many platforms. Peter talks about how he learn Ruby and JavaScript, and in early stages of noodling or learning code. Lastly, Peter talks about his contributions to the community and giving back.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

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Charles

• What does the Chief Open Source Officer do?
• What is really different and has stayed the same in open source?
• Technological advances
• Good engineering and looking ahead or forward
• 100 million lines of code running a car…
• This is in everything..
• Production environments
• Security
• Bugs in the software and the security issues
• Scaling and paying attention
• Where should we be worried about open source
• Notation and data sets
• Write maintainable software
• How does VMWare think about open source?
• View and Consumption of open source
• The burnout of open source projects - how to resolve this abandonment
• To much work to maintain open source  - not a money issue
• Scaling the team workload not the money
• Contribution and giving back
• Companies who do and don’t welcome open source
• What to do to make a project open source?
• Adopting an API
• And much more!

• @_drikhh
• VMWare
• Drikhh - everywhere!
• https://github.com/dirkhh

• De Contact 
• Dodow 

• Track This Critical Thinking

• Nicholas Zakas - Books 

• Fun Fun Function Show

• Dice Forge
• Concept of empathy

Panel: 

Charles Max Wood

Guest: Nader Dabit

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Nader Dabit. Nader is a familiar guest on JavaScript Jabber, talking about the state of React Native. Nader is the host of React Native Radio, another podcast on the Dev Chat TV network. Nader is a React Native trainer that does consulting and workshops in major cities in the US.

Nader dives into his background and how he began his journey as a developer. Interestingly, Nader became successful as a developer without any formal training, but, by only learning to code on the job. This is a great episode to learn specific ways to build a career without formal training, and how to present yourself for the job.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

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Charles

• Demo of Live Collaborative Editing and Debugging explained
• New Features with VS Code
• Developer productive
• Debugging pain points
• Getting feedback
• New in VS Code
• Language support and Java Debugger
• Live Share
• Debugging from different machines and platforms
• Multi-Stage Docker File
• TypeScript compiler
• More on debugging with Cosmos db
• Debugging in the Cloud?
• Docker Extensions
• Data Bricks
• Updated python tools
• Coming up with Visual Studio Code in the next 6 months
• TypeScript and Refactoring
• Getting the word out about code -  Word of mouth?
• Number of people using VS Code?
• Envision for what VS Code is becoming?
• Preparing for a keynote and processes?
• And much more!

• https://code.visualstudio.com
• https://github.com/chrisdias
• GitHub.com/microsoft
• @code

• Pizza

• Deli

• Coupon Pass for tourist in NYC

Panel: 

Charles Max Wood

Guest: Ryan Glover

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Ryan Glover, Ryan is the COO of Clever Beagle. Clever Beagle is a company that helps people create their first products and begin selling to their customers. Clever Beagle uses platforms like  Meteor JS, Node JS, and React to provide frameworks for help build applications.

Ryan describes their business as a technical therapist for bringing ideas to fruition. Ryan shares his journey into programming by learning to build websites with Geocities. Thereafter, Ryan had began his self-taught journey with programming after learning he did not like his college major. Ryan talks about his contribution to the JS community, his website called Meteor Chef designed to help newbies learn to build with Meteor JS.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

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Charles

• What is new in TypeScript?
• Keep JavaScript and TypeScript aligned
• TypeScript is implemented to create larger scaled applications
• Integration with VS Code, etc.
• Building better tools for JavaScript Developers
• When would this be taken on by users
• Defaults in Visual Studio
• TypeScript replacing JavaScript type service
• TypeScript is written in TypeScript
• Chakra runtime
• Diaspora
• The different faces of JavaScript
• Optimized JavaScript runtime
• Languages should be created with tooling
• A satisfying tooling experience
• Foot Guns
• New Tokens
• Eco-systems and metadata
• Multi-phase
• Minimum common denominator constantly changing
• Collaborating on the same code
• Open Source and the impact
• How to move to open source
• Contributing
• The next thing for TypeScript
• The future of JavaScript
• And much more!

• @amandaksilver
•  

• Visual Studio Live Share
• Instinct of learning technology

• Visual Studio Live Share
• AI

• What is the Block Chain?
• A Hash?
• The blockchain is an order of ledger.
• The blockchain is a  list of transactions
• How is a Hash used?
• Sha 256
• Bitcoin and Block Chains
• What If two machines get the same answer?
• Describe a transaction in a blockchain?
• Exchanging currency
• The cost of Bitcoin
• Web 3.0
• Everything on the Block Chain is public!
• Where else is Block Chain is used besides bitcoin type currency
• Public Key.
• What should JS developer be doing to prepare?
• And much more!

• https://www.ng-book.com/
• http://www.newline.co.bw/
• The History of Money
• @Auser
• Stack.io

• Article -  Learn Block Chain by Building One
• The Source Bar

• Microsoft Connect - Meet up at 7pm
• Stranger Thing Season 2

• Spice Labels and Spice Jars
• Marriage

• Moving to NYC
• Learn Block Chain by Building One

• What is a CSS and JS library?
• Controlling CSS with JS, what does this solve?
• Style bugs
• What kind of styling are you using vs. complex styles?
• Media query
• A more declarative style
• Using Sass
• Where do you see people using this?
• Class names and you can apply to anything
• How Emotion works!
• Style tags
• Object styles
• What are some of the problems you are solving
• React Emotion - dynamic styles
• How does this compare to other style components?
• Glamor Styles
• How do you test something like this?
• Just Glamor React with Emotion
• Can people use the Babel plugin
• Pure flag and function calls
• And much more!

• Emotion.sh
• Emotion-js/emotion
• emotion.now.sh
• @TKH44

• Article on Medium
• Antibiotics and Steroids
• RX Bars 

• Disney Emoji Blitz 
• How To Get A Job  -  JavaScriptJabber.com

• Styled System
• Face Paint
• Aussie Bites 

• How do I get a great job? Companies are only hiring Senior Devs.
• Your selling point as a Jr. Dev.
• Framing your experience for the companies to better see your experience.
• I don’t want a ( this kind of boss)
• Feeling like you are making a difference in your job.
• Who do you want to work for, with, where, and how, etc?
• Working in a facility or remotely. What do you want?
• Check out the meet-up places or workplaces (WeWork), Glassdoor
• Check out the people who work that these companies, LinkedIn.
• Check out company’s Slack rooms, forum, etc. to make connections
• Visit the companies personally
• Look into contacting the Meetup Organizers
• Building rapport
• Resume mistakes - how to properly format it so it is skim-able
• Top 3 bullet points and tailor you resume for each job
• Unnecessary material in your resume - again tailor to the company
• Important material to include on your resume, contributions on projects
• The cover letter - How to do this correctly with a personal touch
• What to do when you get the interview - the offer!
• And much more!

• devchat.tv/get-a-coder-job-full-accessfull-access
• WeWork
• Expert Salary Negotiation