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Rethinking backend with webtasks #42

Closed tjanczuk closed 9 years ago

tjanczuk commented 9 years ago

You are writing a mobile or HTML5 web application that needs just a little bit of a backend. Maybe you want to access MongoDB, send an SMS, or an e-mail. Do you really need to host your own Node.js service to run this small snippet of backend logic?

In this talk I will take a hard look at the role of the backend in modern applications. I will introduce the concept of a webtask - a lightweight representation of backend logic that can safely be embedded in a client application. I will show how you can use modern container technologies based on CoreOS and Docker to build a generic, multi-tenant runtime for securely executing webtasks directly from a mobile or HTML5 application. You don’t need a backend to run backend code.

This talk is based on lessons learned when building the Node.js sandboxing technology for internal use in our core operations at Auth0.

Find out more: Webtask concepts Webtask CLI Webtask playground Webtask technology

iancrowther commented 9 years ago

Video Talk

tjanczuk commented 9 years ago

@iancrowther how does the technical side of this talk look like? How/when do I join and present?

iancrowther commented 9 years ago

We can Skype or use any webrtc option like yodlr

tjanczuk commented 9 years ago

So the idea is we connect, I share my screen, and talk to it, or do you need my slides beforehand?

iancrowther commented 9 years ago

yep, nice and simple. no need for slides in advance although it would be great for you to tweet the url for them after the talk