Coming Full Circle - An Introduction to Static Site Generation

In June 2016, I presented at Perth's web industry on using static HTML for websites, using my company Realm's implementation (at the time) as a base.

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1. Coming Full Circle - An Introduction to Static Site Generation Tim Oliver
2. Tim Oliver @TimOliverAU
3. http://weloveperth.net.au © Marianne Annereau, 2012
4. ECU Student, 2004 - 2006 Digital Media (BSc) • Graphic design • Database management • Web frontend/backend
5. Tourism WA, 2008 - 2009
6. ECU, 2008 - 2014
7. Personal / Client Websites
9. Realm A replacement for SQLite & Core Data
10. http://realm.io
14. Advantages of WordPress (CMS)
15. Open source, Free-to-use
16. Quick to set up
17. VERY powerful content creation
18. Easily extensible, many plugins
19. Great documentation/community
20. Disadvantages of WordPress (CMS)
21. Higher/pricier hosting requirements © Google
22. Software Maintenance © WP Protectors
23. Plugin/theme compatibility © Christi Nickerson, Web Hosting Hub
24. Coping with high traffic (ie, scaling) Silicon Valley, © HBO
25. Backups
26. Is it actually worth it? Yes! No..?
27. Static Site Generation!
28. What is it? • An offline command line utility • Sites are managed as a ‘template’ package • The site template is run through the utility • A static snapshot of the site is produced • Upload and repeat
29. How does it work?
30. http://jekyllrb.com
31. Demo!
32. What are the benefits?
33. Speed
34. Less hardware hassle (and money!)
35. Much more secure
36. Much easier scaling
37. Easier to back up
38. How does realm.io work?
39. How does realm.io work?
40. What are the disadvantages? • No real-time content (Obviously) • No user input (Without JavaScript) • No administrative controls • Site generation can be slow at scale • Technical barrier to entry
41. Another tool for your toolbox
42. http://squarespace.com
43. Thanks for watching!
44. Thanks for watching! to@realm.io @timoliverau