Deploying Your Web App…What Could Go Wrong?

Congratulations! You’ve got yourself a nice little World-Wide Web site. Now it’s time to deploy it for everyone to enjoy through their World-Wide Web browser. Easy, right? WRONG! Deploying web apps today is the portal to madness and pain, with many levels of misery awaiting as you descend into the depths of Hades. Or…if you play it right, it’s little more than the press of a button. Let’s talk about that in this our Season 2 finale of Just a Spec.

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive Future

Links & Show Notes:

• Follow Just a Spec on Mastodon
• The Spicy Web & That HTML Blog
• Haggis Ruby, 24th October 2024 (Ayush is a speaker)
• Social Web Foundation
• Render (hosting)
• “Premature optimization is…”

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 0:37 Weather Report™
• 2:12 Rounding out this season of Just a Spec
• 3:45 FediNews! The Social Web Foundation has arrived
• 9:50 You got yourself a web app. Now, where and how to deploy it??!
• 13:17 The early days of "shared hosting"
• 18:54 VPS: Virtual Private Server
• 21:28 Managed hosting providers (Render, Heroku, etc.)
• 24:08 Big Cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• 27:26 Back to On-prem…?
• 30:33 Hazards of overreliance on cloud providers
• 32:07 Lack of redunancy can be an issue with on-prem
• 33:55 Premature optimization is the root of all evil
• 37:04 MVD: Minimum Viable Deployment
• 38:44 The Git Push workflow
• 39:36 Docker…the pros & cons
• 43:08 Automated server management services
• 44:06 Docker layers
• 46:01 Also…buildpacks
• 47:08 Kubernetes…why? WHY??
• 49:43 The complexity is too damn high!
• 51:56 Outro