Webhosting in 2020

Slides for my keynote at the annual FeWeb conference. See https://talks.feryn.eu/talks/164/webhosting-in-2020-feweb-congress-evere for more info.

Transcript

1. Webhosting in 2020 Thijs Feryn
2. Hi, I’m Thijs
3. I’m @ThijsFeryn on Twitter
4. I’m an Evangelist At
6. Datacenter space Colocation
7. Dedicated servers
8. Virtualization
9. People care less about hardware & infrastructure
10. As A Service
11. People want high quality
12. CHEAP !!!
13. Cloud
14. ✓Elastic ✓As A Service ✓On demand ✓Pay as you go Cloud
15. People care even less about hardware & infrastructure
16. People want high quality on demand
17. Pay by the hour/minute
18. Technology drivers
19. ✓Agile ✓DevOps ✓APIs (Service Oriented Architecture) ✓Cloud platforms ✓Cheap hardware Technological drivers
20. Social needs
21. ✓Web 2.0: user empowerment, mainstream internet ✓Always available ✓Everywhere (mobile) ✓Fast Social drivers
22. Business needs
23. ✓Deal with spikes ✓Optimize cost ✓On demand ✓Quality assurance Business impact
24. Platforms & Frameworks
26. Platforms are driving the future
27. ✓Standardized ✓Supported (community/business) ✓Scale ✓Force quality Platforms
28. Orchestration
29. Infrastructure with a short lifespan
30. People only care about their software
31. Servers -> services
32. Automation
33. ✓Everything is API-driven ✓Everything is on demand ✓Separation of concerns ✓Eclectic technology stacks ✓Microservices Drivers
34. Turning one HUGE problem into many small problems
37. Portability Quality Assurance Scalability
38. Platforms will shift their focus from VMs to containers
41. Running servers containers functions & events
42. ✓Per month ✓Per day ✓Per hour ✓Per request On demand billing
43. Hardware vendors have to adapt
44. ✓More frameworks at all levels ✓Frameworks will advance ✓Vendors will adapt even more ✓Quality assurance, better quality ✓More flexibility ✓Developers will adapt ✓Rules, tools & best practices Future
45. Role of the hoster
46. ✓Relationship with the customer ✓Trust ✓Service (Level Agreements) ✓Personal approach ✓Advice ✓Expertise Role of the hoster
47. Webhosting in 2020
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