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From JavaScript Runtimes to Durable Compute

WhenSat, Oct 31, 10:30 AMStarts in 12 hours📅 Add to calendarWhereHostThe Ubuntu TechHive North AmericaCostNot stated — check with the hostOneJoy doesn't handle payments — settle directly with the host or venue.CapacityOpen — no spot limit

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A practical two-hour tour of how JavaScript execution has evolved from traditional local runtimes into a broader computing platform spanning development machines, servers, cloud workers, and durable stateful applications. (https://ubuntuhive.tech/en/events/the-ubuntu-techhive-north-america/from-javascript-runtimes-to-durable-compute) The session explores the changing role of JavaScript runtimes and the growing importance of Web Platform APIs as a common programming model across environments. We will look at how familiar concepts such as requests, responses, asynchronous I/O, and fetch now connect everything from ordinary API calls and web servers to cloud execution and increasingly sophisticated stateful computing models. From there, we will explore one of the more interesting shifts happening in server-side development: moving beyond stateless request handlers toward individually addressable units of computation that can own persistent state, communicate with other services, and survive beyond a single request or process. Rather than comparing runtimes feature by feature, the goal is to develop a useful mental model for how the JavaScript ecosystem is changing, what is becoming portable across environments, and how these changes affect the way modern applications can be designed. Audience: developers and learners interested in JavaScript, backend development, cloud computing, or modern application architecture. No prior experience with alternative runtimes or distributed systems is required. Outcomes: • Understand how the role of the JavaScript runtime has expanded beyond the traditional server process • Recognize Web Platform APIs as an increasingly common interface across local and cloud environments • See how the Request, Response, and fetch model connects client, server, and service-to-service communication • Distinguish stateless request processing from durable stateful computation • Understand the basic idea behind addressable units of compute that own their own persistent state • Explore how these models affect realtime applications, collaboration, AI-enabled systems, and other stateful workloads • Develop a clearer framework for evaluating new JavaScript runtimes and computing platforms as the ecosystem continues to evolve Format: two hours with a concise tour of the changing JavaScript runtime landscape, progressively deeper examples, a focused live demonstration of stateful compute, discussion of architectural tradeoffs, and questions and answers. \-\-\-\-\-\-\-\- Un tour d'horizon pratique de deux heures sur la façon dont l'exécution JavaScript a évolué, passant d'environnements locaux traditionnels à une plateforme informatique plus large couvrant les machines de développement, les serveurs, les workers cloud et les applications durables avec état. (https://ubuntuhive.tech/fr/events/the-ubuntu-techhive-north-america/from-javascript-runtimes-to-durable-compute) La session explore l'évolution du rôle des environnements d'exécution JavaScript et l'importance croissante des API de la plateforme Web en tant que modèle de programmation commun à tous les environnements. Nous examinerons comment des concepts familiers tels que les requêtes, les réponses, les entrées/sorties asynchrones et fetch connectent désormais tout, des appels API ordinaires et serveurs web à l'exécution dans le cloud et aux modèles de calcul avec état de plus en plus sophistiqués. À partir de là, nous explorerons l'un des changements les plus intéressants dans le développement côté serveur : le passage au-delà des gestionnaires de requêtes sans état vers des unités de calcul adressables individuellement, capables de posséder un état persistant, de communiquer avec d'autres services et de survivre au-delà d'une seule requête ou d'un seul processus. Plutôt que de comparer les environnements d'exécution fonctionnalité par fonctionnalité, l'objectif est de développer un modèle mental utile sur la façon dont l'écosystème JavaScript évolue, ce qui devi

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