Episode 177: OSS Sustainability and NPM Module Ecosystem with Matteo Collina

Recording date: March 17, 2022

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Matteo @MatteoCollina

• Narwhal

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• AG Grid

• Newsletter
• Web Rush episode with Matteo and Fastify
• Web Rush episode with Matteo with Node.js Optimization and Performance
• Fastify
• Fastify from 600k in Aug 2020 to 1.6m in Feb 2022
• CityJS London
• OpenJS
• Matteo speaking at the OpenJS World keynote
• npm
• Node.js
• Moving Fastify to Azure Pipelines with Matteo Collina and Damian Brady
• Fastify ecosystem
• Fastify on InfoQ
• Fastify and Validation of Data
• Article on "Forget Express"
• Fastify Hooks
• Routing in Fastify
• Pino logger in GitHub
• Express Contributors
• Fastify to Express
• Fastify Workflows
• Log4j vulnerabilities explained
• OWASP top ten security issues
• Scan your npm dependencies

• 02:25 Guest introduction
• 05:25 Live vs virtual conferences
• 06:38 npm Ecosystem and Security
• 09:07 Update on Fastify
• 12:06 Sponsor: Narwhal
• 12:40 Were you able to start with this process in the beginning of Fastify?
• 15:30 Front end vs back end concerns
• 17:20 Serverless vs server based cold starts
• 22:37 How Fastify helps with security issues
• 24:05 Why is my npm modules folder so big?
• 26:56 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 28:01 Vulnerabilities in open source
• 33:01 What do people who aren't able to code do?
• 34:01 Security tips for using node

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.