Trying to Suck Less Making Web 2.0 Mean Something

Anil Dash (lousy coder)

Blogs!

Connect with the people you care about.

Hooray Blogs!

Cute Overload Cat Pictures 2.0

Influencing Mainstream Media

Niche Communities

(Helping Furries Get Married)

(Helping Anybody Get Connected)

Web 2.0!

It’s great stuff.

Blogs don’t suck. (Mostly.) Web 2.0 doesn’t suck. (Mostly.)

Getting Carried Away

“ We’re the fourth most popular mobile application for tagging podcasts!” (Digg This!)

http://www.hat.evr

Who would want to use this?

Is it making my life better?

This sucks!

Sucks = Could Be Great

Uh oh! You succeed in your plan, and nobody’s any happier .

Uh oh! You build something great, but you have to shut it down .

Sucks = Doesn’t Scale

Blogs ??? Profit!

Blogs

???

Profit!

Profit! (Any way that you want to.)

Profit! (So you can scale.)

But wait, it gets worse!

Open Data Open Feeds Open APIs Open Source

Open Data

Open Feeds

Open APIs

Open Source

They’re not open!

Even many sites that don’t suck aren’t open .

It’s not a witch hunt.

Not Just Table Scraps

It’s easy to slip up: Not Open Meaningless

Not Open

Meaningless

It’s still worth trying.

Making lives better!

What’s It Take To Build This Stuff?

Requisite LAMP Stack Slide!

Perl gods: We’re Hiring!

Yay, LAMP!

Uh oh, LAMP.

How to win the Tour de France: Buy a bike Buy tight shorts Go faster than everyone Win!

Buy a bike

Buy tight shorts

Go faster than everyone

Win!

A scalable file system Memory Caching for Dynamic Sites Load Balancing Real-Time Messaging Identity that doesn’t suck A useful database abstraction layer Distributed Job Management Ad Serving A useful, standard API Ajax libraries for the front-end The Ugly Stuff

A scalable file system

Memory Caching for Dynamic Sites

Load Balancing

Real-Time Messaging

Identity that doesn’t suck

A useful database abstraction layer

Distributed Job Management

Ad Serving

A useful, standard API

Ajax libraries for the front-end

What’s Wrong With What’s Out There? Not open Expensive Complicated All of the above It sucks!

Not open

Expensive

Complicated

All of the above

It sucks!

The Platform Perlbal Memcached MogileFS Djabberd

Why Use Them? They’re Open They’re Free They Work Like Crazy

They’re Open

They’re Free

They Work Like Crazy

Real Scaling!

A light, fast load balancer that leaves the hard stuff to Apache. Perlbal

A light, fast load balancer that leaves the hard stuff to Apache.

Helps your database service enough requests to have all your pages be dynamic. Memcached

Helps your database service enough requests to have all your pages be dynamic.

A high-availability, scalable file system that assumes your hardware will fail. MogileFS

A high-availability, scalable file system that assumes your hardware will fail.

OMG FILES! M O G I L E F S !

Real-Time Jabber Messaging Djabberd Powers LJ Talk

Real-Time Jabber Messaging

Perlbal Memcached MogileFS Djabberd

Data::ObjectDriver OpenID TrackBack XML::Atom Ad Engine Plagger Lots More

Data::ObjectDriver

OpenID

TrackBack

XML::Atom

Ad Engine

Plagger

We build on this.

Extracted from real working apps.

Web 2.0's greatest hits are built on this.

So What Does Web 2.0 Mean? It’s open. It doesn’t suck.

Go get it: http://developer.sixapart.com

Now go build something that doesn’t suck.

Thank You!

See our sessions: Stump the Band: 1:45pm, E142 Plagger: 2:35pm, Portland 256 Data::ObjectDriver: 11:35am Thursday, Portland 256 LiveJournal’s Secret Spinoffs: 11:35am Friday, F150