Thin Server Architecture

Extreme Scale: Thin Server Architecture Mitch Pirtle codeworks new york city 2009

Wha? As website interactivity demands put a bigger strain on your beautiful code, faster internet connections and more website visitors don't make it any easier. There is a way to dramatically drop the overhead of rendering a page, by asking the browser to do all the work. Learn how to scale your applications to absurd extremes with this simple, ingenious concept.

Before we begin Coffee? Breakfast?

How it all started

Internet Web server Data server Data Center

Hey, this thing is taking off

Ok, we can handle that

See the pattern?

Problems with this approach Ties computation with display Signiﬁcantly increases load Signiﬁcantly reduces opportunity to cache IT DOESN’T SCALE

But wait, there’s more Most developers suck at design Most designers suck at code We just mixed a huge load of markup and code together in a big, amorphous glop

There’s got to be a better way.

Thin Server Architecture

Wha? Keeps display and logic separate Pulls unique information separately Cache is simpler to implement Cache reused objects separately from dynamic

What it looks like

TSA to PHP developers M M V V C C PHP PHP Browser

Problems solved Seperates display from computational work Simpliﬁes cache implementation Lowers network latency, bandwidth usage Users perceive fast, snappy response Opens the door to rich internet applications (RIA)

Great example: Dojo

Dojo Toolkit http://www.dojotoolkit.org/

TSA is platform agnostic CODE: You can use Perl, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc. CLIENT: You can use Dojo, jQuery, MooTools, etc. DATA: The simpler the better...(next slide, Mitch)

Why develop in an object language, just to stuff mismatched chunks of your objects in a non- object data store?

MongoDB Document store with speed, scale of key/value and creature comforts of relational systems

What MongoDB can do Simpliﬁes development Stores in binary JSON objects Return data directly to browser in JSON Store data, binary objects, whatevah!

Time for my favorite game Stump the Nerd™

Great resources

Thin Server Architecture http://www.thinserverarchitecture.com/ http://www.slideshare.net/rajivmordani/practical-thin- server-architecture-with-dojo-peter-svensson- presentation

Rich Internet Applications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Internet_application

Thanks! http://www.spacemonkeylabs.com http://www.mitchitized.com

Photo credits Bulldog Frances (stock photo by jaimo) Cat (stock photo by klsa12) Sleepy zoo lioness (stock photo by Meeshoo)

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