This talk is a head first dive into the next-gen core tracing API’s being developed under the Node.js Diagnostics Working Group. We’ll learn about the upcoming AsyncHooks API and how this can be used to build your own high level instrumentation logic in production. About Thomas Watson Thomas Watson is an open source Node.js hacker out of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a member of the Node.js Diagnostics Working Group and is the Node.js Lead at Opbeat - a JavaScript performance analysis and monitoring startup. He maintains over a 100 open source projects, enjoys working with mad science and implementing network protocols in JavaScript.