a world without servers

[ghost]

Now that browsers are increasingly capable, what do we even need servers for anymore?

• Using the html5 application cache for offline-only web apps with an opt-in model to upgrades
• To make browser crypto feasible, we will need to ditch servers (the lavabit problem)
• New possibilities with webrtc data channel
• Why servers should speak webrtc too
• Offline-first, replication-first (covered in far more depth in my other talk)
• Everything is immutable
• Web application versioning and audits
• Threat models in a world of pervasive monitoring
• Availability, bootstrapping in a serverless environment
• Iframes and asymmetric crypto
• Bring your own server
• Tooling! Why bundling is the only way.

I will show how to take "single page apps" to their logical conclusion: a single html file with no external resources that you can put on a thumb drive and tie to a carrier pigeon. Servers won't ever completely go away, they will just have a completely different role in the future once the possibilities of new browser features are properly realized.

Like all my talks, this one will be very hands-on and applied with much command-line spectacle.

It might not seem like it so far, but this talk is actually about browserify! That is the unexpected twist: everybody doing the best work on these things is already using npm for package management and browserify to build the bundles!

[feross]

This is an awesome area to explore more. We need to make a guide, or at least an application that follows these principles that people can use as an example.

Have you seen infinite-app-cache? There's some useful discussion here.

[ghost]

now up and running: http://hyperboot.org/

[feross]

this is amazing!

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 2:55 PM, James Halliday [email protected]
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now up and running: http://hyperboot.org/

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[mikeal]

If you haven't already, please register yourself as a speaker for JSFest:

https://ti.to/jsfest/oakland?release_id=nqflw0il0qw

If you get it in within the next few days you'll probably get a much nicer conference badge :)

And for any clever buggers who think they can register for free using that link, we will be checking the names against the accepted speakers list :)