Node Congress 2026

In this hands on workshop participants will learn how to create a production‑ready Model Context Protocol (MCP) server on Cloudflare Workers. The session covers defining tool endpoints, integrating external APIs, persisting state with KV storage, and globally deploying the server so AI assistants can invoke custom tools in real time. By the end of the workshop every attendee will have a live MCP server they can extend and secure for their own AI‑agent projects.  

This workshop closes the old and very real gap between Node.js developers and production.Many Node.js developers can build APIs, services, and backends that work locally—but things fall apart when it’s time to containerize, deploy, scale, and operate them in real environments. This workshop fixes that.This is where Node.js stops being “just code” and becomes a reliable production system.What you’ll learn:Dockerize Node.js applications for development and production using battle-tested patternsDesign clean, fast, and secure Docker images for Node.jsBuild scalable CI/CD pipelines with GitHub ActionsOptimize Node.js apps for performance, stability, and observability

Node's concurrent nature is powerful already, but often we need to push work out of the main server for several reasons. In this work, we will explore a few scenarios in which work is cleverly pushed to another Node process to resolve.
Once we use a queue to distribute workloads, we need to identify the nature of the work to be done. For either I/O- or CPU-intensive work, the first is already perfectly covered by a single Node.js process; we will need to tweak the worker setup to match the available resources and throughput.