SilverStripe: The Next 5 Years (StripeCon 2015)

What can we expect from the SilverStripe project between now & 2020. Given as the keynote of StripeCon 2015 in London.

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2. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Where have we come from? Where are we going? SilverStripe The next 5 years
3. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée The future!
4. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée “To know your future you must know your past” ― George Santayana
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6. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée 21 November, 2005 Almost 10 years ago
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13. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Things were different
14. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Original goals of SilverStripe 2 2005 • An Application Framework as well as a CMS • Customise it with PHP code, not with UI • Simple, intuitive UI • Site navigation generated from a page tree • Customisable data model • Solid publication workflow
15. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Original goals of SilverStripe 2 First two sites • An e-commerce site based on hire purchase • A government department 2005
16. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Things were not that different
17. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Ruby on Rails was in Beta • CakePHP was PHP4-based, and PHP framework state-of-the-art • Mobile web? Like… WAP? What else was happening? 2005
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20. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée 2010
21. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée A few highlights… • Google Summer of Code • 2008 DNCC website • Google Highly Open Participation 2005–2010 In the SilverStripe community
22. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • SilverStripe solid international community • Ingo and Philipp had written a German book • ...then translated it to English! • SilverStripe 2.4 had just been released What was happening in 2010? In the SilverStripe community
23. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée What was happening in 2010? • Running on a range of platforms important • Database abstraction • Microsoft certification In the SilverStripe community
24. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Mobile websites were starting to become important • Mainly early-adopters or people with big budgets • Responsive design not yet mainstream • Social media increasingly important What was happening in 2010? Elsewhere in the world
25. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Social Media Google Trends https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=social%20media
26. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Responsive Web Design Google Trends https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=responsive%20web%20design
27. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Mobile Web Design Google Trends https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=mobile%20web%20design
28. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée But still mainly Desktop websites
29. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée But still mainly Self-hosted, physical servers
30. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée 2015
31. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Block-based designs • Responsive web design the norm • Lots of great frameworks • Some say “don’t tie your app to a single framework”—hexagonal architecture CMS & Web Trends 2015
32. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Adaptive Content vs. Front-end WYSIWYG
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34. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Web Experience Management • A.K.A Personalisation • Of most interest to bigger customers • Sitecore, Adobe Experience Manager • Data journalism • Blurring lines between “app”, “data”, and “content” CMS & Web Trends 2015
35. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calculator.html
36. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée CLOUD “People won’t shut up about it!”
37. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Virtualisation is well-established—does anyone not use some kind of VM? • Containerisation the next wave • Apps increasingly built around micro-services The C Word 2015
38. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Support for a variety of application stacks—e.g. IIS—less critical • Just run a Linux VM How does this affect SilverStripe? 2015
39. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée ...and in the SilverStripe community?
40. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée SilverStripe 3.2.0 stable 4 days ago
41. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée SilverStripe 4!
42. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée We want SilverStripe to be a better citizen of the PHP ecosystem. • Namespacing • Flexibility over folder structure (use Composer’s vendor/ folder) • Including putting code outside the webroot • PSR-4 auto-loader • Simpler bootstrap • Smaller modules Interoperability What’s coming in SilverStripe 4
43. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée SilverStripe 4 We’re now a member!
44. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée SilverStripe 4 Allow this kind of architecture Your SilverStripe data model SilverStripe CMS, model admins, etc Application in another framework
45. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • ZIP downloads still available, but they will come with composer.phar • We will rely more on Composer features such as auto-loading • This will make it easier to replace components such as Mailer with 3rd party implementations • We want to have less code to maintain! Composer for all What’s coming in SilverStripe 4
46. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Filesystem Abstraction • Support assets on other back-ends, e.g. S3. • Based on Flysystem • It’s in master now! • Next step: versioned assets What’s coming in SilverStripe 4
47. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Being prototyped in a module • Gallery view for browsing • Drag & drop Better Files UI What’s coming in SilverStripe 4
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49. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Something about versioning What’s coming in SilverStripe 4 Ever made a content block system, and had your customers complain that it got published straight away?
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51. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Meet Paul
52. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Versioning and draft/published for all your content • Pages • Files • Content blocks • An intuitive experience for users that care • An even more intuitive experience for users that don’t Something about versioning What’s coming in SilverStripe 4
53. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée 2020
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55. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée MORE!
56. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • More channels to communicate through • More data to bring together More complex problems to solve 2020 trends
57. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • More personalised • Better visualisation/interpretation of data • Realtime Higher visitor expectations 2020 trends
58. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • More intuitive tools • Both data- and content-based communication • Realtime Higher author expectations 2020 trends
59. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée SilverStripe 4 SilverStripe 4+ SilverStripe 4++ SilverStripe 4+++ SilverStripe 4++++
60. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Complex systems SilverStripe will be just one piece of the whole Magic SilverStripe Dragons NodeJS
61. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Modular Architecture • APIs for reading & writing to other systems must be • Complete and polished • High-performance • Easy to incorporate Complex systems
62. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Google Docs-style Realtime interaction will be the norm • Anything else will just seem antiquated • Have you used a non-ajax app lately? Realtime
63. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • Much richer JavaScript apps • Business logic shared between client & server • Lean, high-performance server components Realtime
64. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée How do authors tell personalised, data-driven stories? Richer authoring tools
65. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée • CMS UX takes a front-seat • Open-source projects are traditionally developer-led • Development of the CMS needs to be driven by users’ needs and not framework limitations Richer authoring tools
66. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée How do we get there?
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72. 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée Nimble Open Design-driven
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74. Thank you! 16 October, 2015 • London • Sam Minnée @sminnee sam@silverstripe.com