Backend nodejs engineering onboarding

My manager gave me as a task to help of onboarding of a new team member of our team. My decision is to create the following page like a guide if you’ve the same task like me. On the other hand the resource list could be useful for junior / mid lever or senior engineers. A few key themes:

• Async-await
• Ecmascript 6
• Pull requests tips and tricks
• Docker Containers and Kubernetes Fundamentals

Video presentations:

• ECMAScript Harmony: Rise of the Compilers - Brendan Eich

  About Brendan Eich: Brendan Eich was founder and long-term CTO at Mozilla. He also served as SVP of Engineering and briefly as CEO. Eich is widely recognized for his enduring contributions to the Internet revolution. In 1995, Eich invented JavaScript (ECMAScript), the Internet’s most widely used programming language. He co-founded the mozilla.org project in 1998, serving as chief architect, and has been a board member of the Mozilla Foundation since its inception in 2003. Brendan helped launch the award-winning Firefox Web browser in November 2004 and Thunderbird e-mail client in December 2004.Lecture Info: From Fluent 2015. JavaScript is almost 20 years old, and moving faster than ever. ES6/2015 was voted through Ecma TC39 in Paris last month, ES7/2016 is being developed concurrently to prime the annual release pump, and use of compilers, notably Babel and Traceur, is on the rise. Low-level APIs such as SIMD, WebGL2, and 64-bit integer Math methods combine with higher-level facilities from generators and promises to async/await to cover the space of safely programmable hardware. Is there anything JS cannot do? I’ll give some answers.

  Video: ECMAScript Harmony: Rise of the Compilers - Brendan Eich

• Holding on to your Performance Promises - Maya Lekova and Benedikt Meurer

  Lecture Info: The ES2015 revision of JavaScript introduced Promises as primitives for asynchronous operations and generators as primitives for concurrent programming. On top of that ES2017/18 added async functions and generators. This talk briefly explores these primitives, and dives into the performance peculiarities of Promises-based programming paradigms. We’ll especially look into how these operations perform in V8, the JavaScript engine that powers both Node.js and Chrome.

  Video: Holding on to your Performance Promises - Maya Lekova and Benedikt Meurer

• Implementing a Strong Code-Review Culture

  Code reviews are not about catching bugs. Modern code reviews are about socialization, learning, and teaching. How can you get the most out of a peer’s code review and how can you review code without being seen as overly critical? Reviewing code and writing easily-reviewed features are skills that will make you a better developer and a better teammate. You will leave this talk with the tools to implement a successful code-review culture. You’ll learn how to get more from the reviews you’re already getting and how to have more impact with the reviews you leave.

  Video: Implementing a Strong Code-Review Culture

• Docker Containers and Kubernetes Fundamentals: Full Hands-On Course

  Learn how to use Docker and Kubernetes in this complete hand-on course for beginners, how to containerize applications with the Docker CLI and Visual Studio Code, push and pull container images on Docker Hub, a container registry, and create multi-container applications using Docker Compose. Learn about the Kubernetes architecture and how it works. Run it locally and use the Kubernetes CLI and Visual Studio Code to run, debug and troubleshoot applications and services. Learn about pods and the different workloads available.

  Video: Docker Containers and Kubernetes Fundamentals: Full Hands-On Course