These are my notes from Russell Hay's talk on July 3, 2012 at NodeConf called Node and SPI. You can follow Russell on twitter @russellhay.

What is SPI really? It's a loosely defined specification. There's a lot of things left ambiguous, and lots of variety between implementations (are you triggering on the rising edge or the falling edge of the clock?) It's a 4-wire interface between a master and a slave, and it's full-duplex, so when you're reading you're also writing.

The four signals are:

These are my notes from a talk on July 3, 2012 at NodeConf given by Jed Parsons, @drainmice on twitter.

Memory Leaks - So What?

As heap size grows, V8 becomes sluggish. Before you run out of memory, if you're holding onto file handles or connections to Redis, you can run into nasty surprises right when you become popular. Tragic and horrible! You want to find them and eliminate them.

These are my notes from Dave Pacheco's talk on July 3, 2012 at NodeConf. You can follow Dave on twitter at @dapsays.

These are my notes from the Streaming at Scale talk given July 3, 2012 at NodeConf 2012.

These are my notes from a talk given by Tim Caswell on July 3, 2012 at NodeConf Portland. You can follow Tim at @creationix, and these slides are available here: https://github.com/creationix/nodeconf2012

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