--- title: "This Week's Node.js News - Issue 156" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 156 published_at: "2016-09-22" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/156" --- This Week's Node.js News - Issue 156 This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/156) Node WeeklySeptember 22, 2016 #156 Node.js Foundation [The Progress of Node A Year After Node & io.js Merged](https://medium.com/@nodejs/the-progress-of-node-js-a-year-post-node-js-and-io-js-merge-and-where-the-technology-is-going-f168ce9ec8ee)The Node.js Foundation reflects on events a year after Node and io.js merged and where Node is headed next from their point of view. Keymetrics [PM2 v2 (Bradbury) Released](https://keymetrics.io/2016/08/24/pm2-v2-released/)PM2 is a process manager for Node.js apps with a built-in load balancer. Version 2 brings increased stability and performance and better support for both Windows and Docker users. Paul Matthew Jaworski [How to Build a Serverless Node Microservice on Lambda](https://medium.freecodecamp.com/building-a-nodejs-microservice-on-aws-lambda-6adb6da53cbb)A developer quickly shares his approach to ‘going serverless’ and building a CRUD API with AWS Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB. ComposeSponsor [Connecting R and Compose PostgreSQL](https://www.compose.com/articles/connecting-r-and-compose-postgresql/?utm_source=cooper&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=postgresql-and-r)Learn how to connect R, the language used by data scientists and statisticians, to PostgreSQL with RPostgreSQL and RPostgres. [![Compose\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/af24bede.png)](https://www.compose.com/articles/connecting-r-and-compose-postgresql/?utm_source=cooper&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=postgresql-and-r) Paul Krill [Node 7 Beta Due This Week, Upgrades Module Safety and ES Support](http://www.infoworld.com/article/3121237/application-development/nodejs-upgrades-module-safety-and-ecmascript-support.html)_“a big goal of Node.js is to become fully VM-agnostic in the next year”_ Telerik Developer Network [npm for the Visual Studio Developer](http://developer.telerik.com/featured/npm-for-the-visual-studio-developer/)The basics of using npm via the command line and the tooling built into Visual Studio that can make it even easier to use. Dan Rathbone [Use Easy-Fix to Run Integration Tests Like Unit Tests](https://medium.com/walmartlabs/use-easy-fix-to-run-integration-tests-like-unit-tests-834288ec446d)Easy-Fix is a new module that helps integration tests capture and replay test data allowing tests to run in ‘live’ or ‘replay’ mode as you prefer. Jobs - [Get 5+ Engineering Job Offers in 1 Week](https://hired.com/?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=petercooperpress&utm_campaign=q3-16-nodeweekly) With Hired, companies apply to hire you - get salary and equity offers before you interview from companies like Facebook, Postmates, & Square. Hired.com In Brief - [Finding a Node.js Memory Leak in Ghost](https://blog.risingstack.com/case-study-node-js-memory-leak-in-ghost/) story The story of how a memory leak was discovered and resolved in Ghost v0.9. Gergely Nemeth - [A Recap of Node.js Interactive Europe 2016](https://blog.risingstack.com/tag/node-js-interactive/) news RisingStack Engineering - [Node v6.6.0 (Current) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v6.6.0/) news Node.js Foundation - [NodeSource now offers Containerized N|Solid Deployment for Kubernetes](http://nsrc.io/nsolidkube-nw) Production-ready continuous performance and security monitoring for Node.js within a Kubernetes cluster. NodeSourceSponsor - [How to Write a Message to the Bitcoin Blockchain from Node](http://blockchainpie.com/blockchain-tutorial-bitcoin-message/) tutorial Blockchain Pie - [Using Lambdas with Bluebird.Map](https://gorillalogic.com/blog/using-lambdas-with-bluebird-map/) tutorial Pete Lyons - [Why I Started Developing with Node Again](http://jjude.com/why-nodejs-again/) opinion A developer who ‘left’ and came back. Joseph Jude - [Build faster Node.js apps](https://opbeat.com/?utm_source=nodeweekly&utm_medium=newsletter) tools Instantly pinpoint perf issues, like slow queries (pg, mysql, mongo), caching, ext requests & exceptions. OpbeatSponsor - [external-link-tester: Test The External Links On Your Web App](https://github.com/pedrocatre/external-link-tester) code Pedro Catré - [f: Functional Microservice Request Library](https://github.com/poly/f) code A zero-dependency module that wraps HTTP(S) requests, intended for use with stateless, functional microservices. Polybit - [MoonMail: Send Email to Large Lists using AWS, SES and Lambda](https://github.com/microapps/MoonMail) code Uses the Serverless framework. microapps - [email-alerts: Send Error Alerts over Email (via Sendgrid)](https://www.npmjs.com/package/email-alerts) code Alvin Lin - [pshell: A Promise-Based Interface for Running Shell Commands](https://github.com/asyncmax/pshell) code Max Jung Node Weekly is curated by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc) and published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/). Want to sponsor an issue? See our [media kit.](https://cooperpress.com/mediakit) Want to post a job? E-mail us or [use our self-serve system.](https://booking.cooperpress.com/jobs) [Unsubscribe](*|UNSUB|*) : [Change email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*) : [Read this issue on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/156) © Cooperpress Ltd. 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