Welcome 👋
I'm Gergely, and this is where I write about engineering leadership, web and open-source.
Coming from an engineering background, I switched to engineering management in 2014, when I co-founded a company called RisingStack. Since then, I've been managing teams of various sizes.
As an engineering leader, I hold the following ideas precious:
On the rest of this page, you can find publications, public speaking engagements and conferences I organized in the past.
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Public speaking
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AI in Support of Developer Experience
San Francisco, CA at Airbnb's Developer Experience Summit - 2024
Generative AI in Support of Developer Experience
San Francisco, CA at ELC - 30-31 Aug, 2023
Lessons Learned from Working on an Open-Source Design System at Uber
Portland, Oregon at OSCON - 17-18 July, 2019
Deploying Node.js Applications using Kubernetes
San Francisco, CA at NodeSummit - 23-27 July, 2018
The Evolution of a Node.js Service
San Jose, CA at Fluent - 11-14 June, 2018
Node.js Production Checklist
San Francisco, CA at SFNode - 1 Feb, 2018
Node.js Production Checklist
Tokyo, Japan - 25-26 November, 2017
Security - Panel discussion as a panelist
NodeSummit, San Francisco - 2017 July
Node Summit is the largest conference focused exclusively on Node.js and “The Ecosystem of Node”.
Threat Modelling Node.js Applications
FullStack Conference, London - 2017 July
FullStack London is one of the biggest JavaScript-focused conference in Europe, attracting hundreds of developers each year.
Surviving Web Security
Node.js Interactive, Austin - 2016 December
How Node.js and Microservices Change Your Business
Dreamforce, San Francisco - 2016 October
Node.js in Europe - Panel discussion as a panelist
Node.js Interactive, Amsterdam - 2016 September
Learning Node.js - Panel discussion as a panelist
Node.js Interactive, Amsterdam - 2016 September
Node.js Interactive was the first official European conference held by the Node.js Foundation.
Security - Panel discussion as a moderator
NodeSummit, San Francisco - 2016 July
Web Security
FullStack Conference, London - 2016 July
Microservices.js
FullStack Conference, London - 2015 October
From PHP to organizing Node.js Budapest
NodeConf, Barcelona - 2014 October
Conferences and meetups I organized
NodeConf Budapest
January 20, 2017
NodeConf Budapest is a one-day (plus a meetup/nodeschool day on the day before), single-track conference with a laser focus on what people need to know about Node.js.
It brings together the sharpest minds from the enterprise with the industry’s leading software development heavyweights and the finest talent that Budapest has to offer.
JSConf Budapest 2016
May 12-13, 2016
We aim to be the JSConf of the region around Eastern-Middle Europe, an area so diverse in culture, people and views.
JSConf Budapest 2015
May 14-15, 2015
A strictly nonprofit, open-sourced and community driven conference for the community of JavaScript, with the purpose to build and educate about new technologies, ideas and culture.
One-shot Budapest
November 21, 2014
ONE-SHOT is a one day single track speaker series presented by NodeConf.
Node.js Budapest Meetup
2013 - 2017
Node.js for beginners, experts and everyone who loves javascript.
JIFASNIF - JavaScript is fun, and so Node is fun.
JavaScript Budapest Meetup
2015 - 2016
Publications
On the RisingStack blog
Mastering the Node.js Core Modules - The Process Module
September 20, 2017
Let's take a look at the Node.js Process module. Learn about process states & graceful shutdown to write production-ready applications with more confidence.
A 6-Step-Guide for Contributing to the Node.js Core
September 5, 2017
The aim of this post is to help you land your first commit to the Node.js core! Read all necessary steps from forking to finding good issues to work on.
The Important Features and Fixes of Node.js Version 8
May 30, 2017
In this post, I go through the most important features and fixes of the new Node.js version 8, which becomes the current LTS release from.
On the Codeship blog
Dockerizing Node.js Applications
November 6, 2017
Containers are one of the best ways to deploy Node.js applications these days. In this post, the reader learns how one can containerize Node.js applications using Docker.
On the Snyk blog
Threat Modelling For Node.js Applications
August 31, 2016
What should I defend my application against? Should I deal with Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks? How about SQL injection? Should I protect myself against cross-site request forgery? The short answer is yes. But as always, it's not that simple.
On the Loggly blog
Monitoring microservices: three ways to overcome the biggest challenges
July 23, 2015
Debugging and monitoring of microservices is not a trivial problem but a quite challenging one. I use the word challenging on purpose: There is no silver bullet for this. There is no single tool that you can install that works like magic.
On APM Digest
Distributed Tracing - The Next Step of APM
September 26, 2016
Transforming your monolithic application into a microservices-based one is not as easy as many think. When you are breaking a software down into smaller pieces, you're moving the communication to the network layer and the complexity of your architecture is heavily increasing.
On the GoDaddy Open Source Center
Kubernetes - A Practical Introduction for Application Developers
May 02, 2018
A collection of resources / best practices that help you become a more productive developer working with Kubernetes.
Interviews I gave
- Uber’s Design System (March 20, 2019)
- Manager's Club Interview on Engineering Management (January 7, 2020)
