Jeff is a services engineer with npm, inc. He writes a whole lot of code and a few articles, and has been a lecturer for University of Washington's JavaScript certificate program, a guest lecturer for Ada Developer's Academy, and an organizer of SeattleJS. Jeff is an active contributor to the open source community, a lover of oyster happy hours, and longs for a hot tub boat to call home.
Ever wonder what happens when you `npm install` something? Follow an odyssey across the wires as our hero client embarks on an adventure to bring you the software that you need, right when you ask for it. After this talk you'll have a better understanding of the course a package takes - helping you understand architecture that works at scale as well as being able to troubleshoot package installation problems.