Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Open Source & the Web
Search
David Rice
March 28, 2012
Technology
4
160
Open Source & the Web
Talk about embracing open source. Given at a local enterprise technology conference.
David Rice
March 28, 2012
Tweet
Share
More Decks by David Rice
See All by David Rice
Open Data
davidjrice
3
320
Components: The Future of the Web
davidjrice
3
740
Introduction to Ruby and Rails, Workshop for Designers
davidjrice
6
200
Productivity-Fu
davidjrice
6
220
The Art of Work
davidjrice
2
120
Minimalist Rails
davidjrice
5
720
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
MySQL5.6から8.4へ 戦いの記録
kyoshidaxx
1
210
Claude Code Actionを使ったコード品質改善の取り組み
potix2
PRO
6
2.2k
強化されたAmazon Location Serviceによる新機能と開発者体験
dayjournal
2
210
Witchcraft for Memory
pocke
1
310
Node-REDのFunctionノードでMCPサーバーの実装を試してみた / Node-RED × MCP 勉強会 vol.1
you
PRO
0
110
「Chatwork」の認証基盤の移行とログ活用によるプロダクト改善
kubell_hr
1
150
Agentic Workflowという選択肢を考える
tkikuchi1002
1
500
Snowflake Summit 2025 データエンジニアリング関連新機能紹介 / Snowflake Summit 2025 What's New about Data Engineering
tiltmax3
0
310
急成長を支える基盤作り〜地道な改善からコツコツと〜 #cre_meetup
stefafafan
0
120
Understanding_Thread_Tuning_for_Inference_Servers_of_Deep_Models.pdf
lycorptech_jp
PRO
0
120
VISITS_AIIoTビジネス共創ラボ登壇資料.pdf
iotcomjpadmin
0
160
BrainPadプログラミングコンテスト記念LT会2025_社内イベント&問題解説
brainpadpr
1
160
Featured
See All Featured
Balancing Empowerment & Direction
lara
1
370
The Web Performance Landscape in 2024 [PerfNow 2024]
tammyeverts
8
670
Let's Do A Bunch of Simple Stuff to Make Websites Faster
chriscoyier
507
140k
Fantastic passwords and where to find them - at NoRuKo
philnash
51
3.3k
The Myth of the Modular Monolith - Day 2 Keynote - Rails World 2024
eileencodes
26
2.9k
Performance Is Good for Brains [We Love Speed 2024]
tammyeverts
10
930
GraphQLとの向き合い方2022年版
quramy
48
14k
Code Reviewing Like a Champion
maltzj
524
40k
A Modern Web Designer's Workflow
chriscoyier
694
190k
Done Done
chrislema
184
16k
Designing Experiences People Love
moore
142
24k
We Have a Design System, Now What?
morganepeng
53
7.7k
Transcript
Open Source & the Web by David Rice ( davidjrice.co.uk
)
How many of you have ever used open source software
How many of you have ever used the internet
How many of you still think you haven’t used open
source software
answer: everyone who uses the internet, uses open source software
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/03/17/march_2010_web_server_survey.html 7% 1% 7% 7% 24% 54% Web Server Market
Share by Server Apache Microsoft Google Nginx lighttpd Other
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/03/17/march_2010_web_server_survey.html 31% 62% 7% Web Server Market Share by License
Other Open Source Proprietary
The Open Source Web Stack
Client Side Web Server App Server Application Database Operating System
(HTML/CSS/JS) Nginx Passenger (Ruby on Rails / Ruby) MySQL Debian
Proprietary Web stacks have similar roles of component but are
closed source
Why is proprietary information bad for us
Throughout human history there are positive examples of standardisation, knowledge
sharing and open source
Modern Language Metric System Modern Medicine
However, for each positive example in history, there is also
a negative where information was withheld to improve competitive advantage
In my opinion ideally all knowledge should be free, but
that’s slightly optimistic for now...
How can we embrace open source today... and not be
evil
If you need to retain some of your competitive advantage
(a lot of companies still do)
Application Business Logic Design (HTML/CSS) Framework Libraries Application
Build Applications using open source plugins and libraries
Contribute improvements back to the community
Receive status, feedback & contributions from the community
Release new interesting libraries to the public
If you’re hiring, you have access to a pool of
smart people already experienced with your technology
An incentive for existing employees/contractors, their work will be made
public
As we tend towards more reusable standardised libraries
We have do deal with less bespoke code... faster time
to market, lower costs
The “glue” becomes secondary, and we end up with a
more maintainable solution...
...that adheres to open source standards and can be maintained
by anyone
we end up with configurations and ordering of lots of
small reusable building blocks
that can be developed in an agile and iterative way,
organic like DNA
Now, what about even more forward thinking... be good
There’s also another breed of company, giving everything away open
source
They’re driving profit through expert services & support around the
open source software
RedHat couch.io
A few examples
Active Merchant (Realex) A payment gateway abstraction library http://github.com/davidjrice/active_merchant
Open Translink A Work in Progress collection of demos using
Translink’s data set http://translink.davidjrice.co.uk http://github.com/davidjrice/translink
ATCO A Ruby library for parsing ATCO-CIF UK public transport
data http://github.com/davidjrice/atco
node-comment Real Time Streaming web chat demo using frontend &
server side Javascript Node.js / CouchDB http://github.com/davidjrice/node-comment
Thanks, any questions
[email protected]
@davidjrice github.com/davidjrice