WordCamp NYC – 2017

What can WordPress gain from Serverless Architecture?

Going Serverless with WordPress brings inherent security and scalability to the world’s most widely used CMS. And compared to traditional servers, users could scale to millions of hits per day at the fraction of the cost.

I would like to demonstrate the benefits and how-to of taking WordPress Serverless.

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2. Daniel Olson @emaildano WordPress Goes Serverless @ WordCamp NYC
3. Daniel Olson DigitalCube, COO @emaildano
4. We develop WordPress
 products on AWS
7. Philadelphia
9. Kobe
10. Kobe Niigata
11. Kobe Tokyo Niigata
12. Kobe Sendai Tokyo Niigata
13. Kobe Sendai Tokyo Niigata Fukuoka
14. Let’s talk Serverless!
15. src: rorymacrae.co.uk
16. WTF is..
 Serverless
17. src: http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3784363
19. Serverless "There is no such thing as 'serverless'.
 It's just someone else's problem" src: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12349388
20. Serverless is a design pattern.
21. Serverless is a concept that is
 currently running in production.
22. Okay, so.. What’s Serverless IRL?
23. A Simple Example
24. index.html
25. Button index.html
26. Button Hello, the current
 time is 2:45pm index.html
27. 'use strict'; module.exports.endpoint = (event, context, callback) => { const response = { statusCode: 200, body: JSON.stringify({ message: `Hello, the current time is ${new Date().toTimeString()}.`, }), }; callback(null, response); }; getTime.js src: https://github.com/serverless/examples/tree/master/aws-node-simple-http-endpoint
28. getTime.js Hello, the current
 time is 2:45pm index.html Your Hosting Server ! " # $
29. getTime.js Hello, the current
 time is 2:45pm index.html Your Hosting Server ! " # $ % &
30. What if that function didn’t have to run on your server?
31. What if that function didn’t have to run on your server? It doesn’t have to!
32. Hello, the current
 time is 2:45pm Your Hosting Server getTime.js index.html
33. Hello, the current
 time is 2:45pm Your Hosting Server Button index.html </> getTime.js 3rd Party Service
34. Your Hosting Server </> getTime.js 3rd Party Service index.html 3rd Party Service CDN
35. </> getTime.js 3rd Party Service index.html 3rd Party Service CDN
36. What about my DB?
37. 3rd Party Service MySQL Database index.html 3rd Party Service CDN </> getTime.js 3rd Party Service
38. What about subscriptions?
39. index.html CDN MySQL Database 3rd Party Service Payment
 Gateway 3rd Party Service </> getTime.js 3rd Party Service
40. What about WordPress?
41. PHP Database Javascript HTTP Proxy Your Hosting Server
42. PHP Database Javascript HTTP Proxy Your Hosting Server
43. PHP Database Javascript HTTP Proxy Your Hosting Server
44. Serverless WordPress Model
45. Nobody puts WordPress in a corner.
47. Hosting Server On or off
48. Hosting Server On or off
49. MySQL Database Hosting Server On or off
50. Hosting Server / Docker Container CDN MySQL Database
51. WordPress to Static
52. WordPress to Static Let’s make a function.
53. 'use strict'; module.exports.endpoint = (event, context, callback) => { const response = { statusCode: 200, body: JSON.stringify({ message: `Hello, the current time is ${new Date().toTimeString()}.`, }), }; callback(null, response); }; WordPress2Static.js
55. wp-core
56. wp-core MySQL Database
57. ../wp-content wp-core MySQL Database
58. WordPress2Static.js ../wp-content wp-core MySQL Database
59. WordPress2Static.js CDN ../wp-content wp-core MySQL Database
61. Static WordPress fully hosted on a global CDN No Server
62. How do I access WordPress if the container is powered down?
63. CDN
64. CDN wp-core
65. CDN wp-core MySQL Database
66. CDN ../wp-content wp-core MySQL Database
67. WordPress2Static.js CDN ../wp-content wp-core MySQL Database
68. WordPress2Static.js CDN ../wp-content wp-core MySQL Database
70. Serverless Benefits
71. No WordPress Admin to Hack bc WordPress isn’t running.
72. No server to maintain or crash
73. Global Available
74. What about dynamic content? like comments or search
75. Javascript
 based alternatives
77. Thank you!
78. Daniel Olson DigitalCube, COO @emaildano