--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 144" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 144 published_at: "2016-06-30" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/144" --- This Week's Node.js News - Issue 144 This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/144) Node WeeklyJune 30, 2016 #144 David Drew [How to Upgrade a Node Module The Right Way](http://www.jamasoftware.com/blog/upgrade-node-module-right-way/)How to upgrade Node dependencies without ‘breaking absolutely everything’ in a safe, verifiable, ‘re-factory’ way. Node.js Foundation [How Netflix Scales with Node and Containers](https://medium.com/@nodejs/netflixandchill-how-netflix-scales-with-node-js-and-containers-cf63c0b92e57)Mikeal Rogers spoke with two Netflix engineers about the containerization of their Node-powered service layer. Gergely Nemeth [Debugging Node.js Applications](https://blog.risingstack.com/node-hero-node-js-debugging-tutorial/)An entry-level introduction to debugging Node apps using the debug module, the built-in Node debugger and Chrome’s developer tools. npmCamp: July 30 in OaklandSponsor [npmCamp is almost sold out: buy tickets to npm’s first community conference](http://npm.camp?utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20160630)Join Isaac Schlueter, CJ Silverio, Sara Itani, Marcy Sutton, Sharon Steed, Daijiro Wachi, Wolf Rentzsch, Andre Arko, and over 150 more developers to share how you use npm and learn how to build amazing things. 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