We shape the web, and the web shapes us - Joomladay Brussels 2022

Web technology has shaped Joomla in many different ways over the past 2 decades and in return Joomla, as a tool, has had a great impact on how we build the web. Like music, Joomla is an instrument that humankind has developed — intuitively and naturally. It helps us to overcome our obstacles, to overcome the things we call limitations, because we have a vision, that we deeply want to see fulfilled or a trouble making problem that needs to be solved.

The story of Joomla has been told many times before, the fork..., the start of a strong community driven project, ... this talk is not about that. Instead

Johan Janssens, Joomla Co-Founder will look back to the very humble beginnings to try and define the key challenges, technologies and ideas that helped us shape Joomla, and from there look forward to what could shape Joomla’s future in the next 10 years.

This talk is for anyone interested in helping to shape Joomla, and in trying to answer: What do we as a community want to solve and build next and how will it shape us and the world we want to live in?

URL: https://www.joomladay.fr/replay-2022
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zi3Ndds_5Y

Transcript

1. http://www.joomlatools.com/developer @joomlatools
   We shape the web, and the
   web shapes us.

   A story about how an idea I had a year ago.
   

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3. Standing on the shoulders of giants
   https://www.everythingisaremix.info
   

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4. ARPANET, the
   fi
   rst computer network
   https://spectrum.ieee.org/todays-internet-still-relies-on-an-arpanetera-protocol-the-request-for-comments
   

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5. In 1969 Thomas Merrill and Lawrence Roberts created the first computer
   network called ARPANET. The network consisted of three devices:
   one at the University of Utah, one at the Standford Research
   Institute, and one at the University of California. Today they are
   considered the first hosting in the world.
   When ARPANET started to use the TCP/IP protocol they changed the
   name from ARPANET into Internet.
   

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6. There are over 1 billion sites on the Internet: blogs, commercial sites,
   presentation sites, government sites and more, all dedicated to easier
   communication between people and all using a web hosting service.
   
   
   Thus, with the basics of solid web hosting, even in 2020 to have a
   functional site you must meet three basic conditions:
   
   
   • Have a hosting service
   
   
   • Have a domain on the internet
   
   
   • Create a website.
   
   
   

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7. 1991, the www is born ….
   

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8. 1990, the
   fi
   rst web server
   

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9. The first web page went live on August 6, 1991. It was dedicated to
   information on the World Wide Web project and was made by Tim
   Berners-Lee. It ran on a NeXT computer at the European Organization
   for Nuclear Research, CERN.
   
   
   The first web page address was http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/
   TheProject.html.
   
   
   

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10. http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
    

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11. 1989, the GPL is released
    

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12. The GPL is not just a legal document, it’s much more, it’s a creativity
    manifesto embracing and perpetuating the idea that everything is a
    

    remix through the freedom of use, study modify and copy it provides.
    

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13. 1991, Linus Torvalds creates Linux
    

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14. “Linux took a rather more pragmatic approach to the code sharing
    notion - using the GPL, by believing in it as an engineering choice
    and as a way to allow people to improve and share rather than
    as a moral imperative” — Linux Torvalds
    

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15. Linux distros …
    

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16. Linux distros …
    

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17. The LAMP stack
    

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18. 1995, Apache released
    

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19. Originally based on the NCSA HTTPd server, development of Apache
    began in early 1995 after work on the NCSA code stalled.
    
    
    Apache played a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide
    Web, quickly overtaking NCSA HTTPd as the dominant HTTP server.
    
    
    In 2009, it became the first web server software to serve more than
    100 million websites.
    

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20. 1995, MySQL released….
    

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21. MySQL was created by a Swedish company, MySQL AB, founded by
    Swedes David Axmark, Allan Larsson and Finland Swede Michael
    "Monty" Widenius.
    
    
    Original development of MySQL by Widenius and Axmark began in
    1994. The first version of MySQL appeared on 23 May 1995.
    

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22. 1995, PHP/FI is announced….
    

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23. PHP development began in 1994 when Rasmus Lerdorf wrote
    several Common Gateway Interface (CGI) programs in C, which
    he used to maintain his personal homepage. He extended them to
    work with web forms and to communicate with databases, and
    called this implementation "Personal Home Page/Forms
    Interpreter" or PHP/FI.
    

    

    PHP/FI could be used to build simple, dynamic web applications.
    To accelerate bug reporting and improve the code, Lerdorf
    initially announced the release of PHP/FI as "Personal Home
    Page Tools (PHP Tools) version 1.0”.
    

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24. Webhosting
    

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25. GeoCities offered 1 MB disk space, Tripod – 2 MB, while Angelfire
    offered 35 KB with their plans.
    
    
    These values appear laughable now, but back then sites were usually pure
    text/html and didn't need lots of space. With the rising popularity of rich
    media websites nowadays, hosting plans providing 100 GB.
    

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26. Shared hosting uses only 1% of
    Linux true potential.
    

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27. A custom LA(M)P stack
    

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28. Going cloud native with Joomla
    

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29. 2013, Docker released….
    https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/
    

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30. Docker was created by Solomon Hykes and first released in 2013.
    
    
    Docker is an open source containerization platform. It enables
    developers to package applications into containers—standardized
    executable components combining application source code with the
    operating system (OS) libraries and dependencies required to run that
    code in any environment.
    
    
    In Linux Docker uses OverlayFS, union mount filesystem developed in
    2009 and merged in the Kernel in 2014. It was improved in version
    4.0, bringing improvements necessary for e.g. the overlay2 storage
    driver for Docker.
    https://www.docker.com/
    

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31. 2013, Docker released….
    

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32. Firecracker is a VMM (Virtual Machine Manager), announced in 2018
    and built by developers at Amazon Web Services to enable services
    such as AWS Lambda and AWS Fargate. It’s one of AWS first true OS
    projects.
    At AWS re:Invent 2018 Amazon announced the
    release of Firecracker, an open source
    virtualization technology that is purpose-built for
    "creating and managing secure, multi-tenant
    containers and functions-based services".
    Firecracker is a fork of Chromium OS's Virtual
    Machine Monitor (crosvm), an open source VMM
    written in Rust, and the technology is used behind
    the scenes to power Amazon's AWS Fargate and
    AWS Lambda services.
    https://
    fi
    recracker-microvm.github.io/
    

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33. 2020, Fly.io
    https://
    fl
    y.io/
    

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34. Introducing Joomlatools Server
    A cloud native LA(M)P stack and web application server, for local
    development, and/or production deployment either using Docker or
    Firecracker.
    

    

    Offers out of the box support for Fly.io, allowing to deploy a Joomla
    site in less than 5min.
    
    
    Comes with batteries includes:
    
    
    • OpenMetrics / Grafana support
    
    
    • OpenTracing / Sentry support
    
    
    • Build in HTTP API to manage the server remotely
    

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35. Joomlatools Server - Architecture
    Joomlatools Server can run multiple sites and Linux services as a
    multi-process Docker container.
    

    

    Custom services are build in PHP with OpenSwoole. Compared with
    other async programming frameworks or software such as Node.js, Go,
    Python, ... Open Swoole is a complete async solution that has built-in
    support for async programming via coroutines.
    

    

    https://openswoole.com
    

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36. Swoole Performance vs PHP frameworks
    

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37. Swoole Performance vs Nodejs and Go
    

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39. 2
    Grafana https://grafana.com
    

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40. Sentry Tracing https://sentry.io
    

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41. Sentry Tracing https://sentry.io
    

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42. Grafana Logs https://grafana.com
    

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43. Johan Janssens

    Joomla Co-Founder / Former Lead Developer
    http://about.me/johanjanssens
    @johanjanssens
    johanjanssens
    johanjanssens
    

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44. More Info
    http://twitter.com/joomlatools
    http://github.com/joomlatools
    http://facebook.com/joomlatools
    http://developer.joomlatools.com
    

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