The Future of the Web: From Cloud to Edge

Join Kelsey Hightower and Guillermo Rauch in a fireside chat to discuss the future of the Web.

0:00 Intro
1:00 Conversation starts
1:23 Tiered architectures
5:40 Why now? (Edge compute)
8:00 Innovations in compilers
10:05 HTTP becoming the dominant protocol
13:05 Opinionated patterns
14:45 Where does the data live?
18:15 What happens when you start merging content?
19:37 Vercel Edge config (private beta)
20:35 "Data containers"
21:23 Security - Where do you put the credentials?
23:56 Developer productivity
29:54 Long term evolution of JS inside & outside browser
32:16 Will Vercel build something for data?
37:25 Cache invalidation at the edge
43:41 Debugging at the edge
49:03 Developer shortage
54:15 Security and granularity at the edge
59:43 Server-side & client-side responsibilities
1:08:05 Handling leaky abstractions
1:19:27 A/B Testing & Experimentation

[krpnz]

0:00 Intro
1:00 Conversation starts
1:23 Tiered architectures
5:40 Why now? (Edge compute)
8:00 Innovations in compilers
10:05 HTTP becoming the dominant protocol
13:05 Opinionated patterns
14:45 Where does the data live?
18:15 What happens when you start merging content?
19:37 Vercel Edge config (private beta)
20:35 "Data containers"
21:23 Security - Where do you put the credentials?
23:56 Developer productivity
29:54 Long term evolution of JS inside & outside browser
32:16 Will Vercel build something for data?
37:25 Cache invalidation at the edge
43:41 Debugging at the edge
49:03 Developer shortage
54:15 Security and granularity at the edge
59:43 Server-side & client-side responsibilities
1:08:05 Handling leaky abstractions
1:15:15 What are Vercel & Next.js doing with open-source?
1:19:27 A/B Testing & Experimentation
1:21:54 Wrapping up: What's next in Next.js?

[tylermercer]

Love the discussion about the developer shortage and "what is a developer?" (starting at 48:58). I think we need to talk about these things more. We're all just trying to solve problems and make cool stuff—let's not get too bogged down in how, and which ways are "real" development.

[jakeschroeder]

So cool to see these folks chop it up over arguably the most fascinating tech we got 😊

[aaronheld]

Kelsey's answer to Laura's question needs to be shouted from the rooftops

[headlights-go-up]

Edit: Video is now edited down, so my timestamp is no longer relevant.

[sunjays]

what a story at 1:02:00! that is a story that the enterprise business folks want to hear!!!

[lhxperimental]

What part of this is opensource / cross vendor sourceable? I got the broad sense of the idea being discussed, and it looks like an idea whose time has come. But for it to become the new way of building applications, it has to be a standard or at least an architectural pattern that can be realized using alternative vendors. Drawing parallels to Kubernetes, I am not locking myself into google cloud by accepting K8S. But this looks like a lock-in.

[GBlunted]

It's looking like Geocities (or angelfire) with <BLINK> tags everywhere! 🤣

[ForeverTemplar]

LOL, if the future even has the capacity to keep the Web going. The US keeps devolving into a third world banana republic that can't even properly its own water an electrical grids, the internet might become a luxury.

[Dontcaredidntask-qm]

Its a shame the questions were so scripted and it wasn't so much of an open discussion. There was some real amazing talent in the audience who had the questions that developers want to know, not this marketing PR stuff