The Death of the Web is upon us!

(okay it's not that bad... YET)

 

Websites were: self contained islands

Websites are: complicate graphs of dependencies

 

Integrates with 10s of services, soon 100s.

 

 

Comes with hidden costs:

• Service downtime is the union of all dependent 3rd parties. (SLA Inversion)
• Response time is the sum of all 3rd party response times.

 

Exacerbated by the fact that we're centralizing around popular APIs!

 

The endgame scenario:

The entire web will go down.

 

We're already starting to see this! (S3 Outage)

What's a hacker to do?

We've abstracted who writes the code.

It's time to abstract over where the code is run.

 

Move web services to localhost. VMs? Processes? Xen Instances?

 

Strict barriers between services

(serve from cache, store updates for push later)

 

 We have to burn this web before it takes itself down!