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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 1:15:15 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?

October 25, 2022