The Future of the Web: From Cloud to Edge

Join Kelsey Hightower and Guillermo Rauch in a fireside chat to discuss the future of the Web.

0:00 Intro
1:00 Conversation starts
1:23 Tiered architectures
5:40 Why now? (Edge compute)
8:00 Innovations in compilers
10:05 HTTP becoming the dominant protocol
13:05 Opinionated patterns
14:45 Where does the data live?
18:15 What happens when you start merging content?
19:37 Vercel Edge config (private beta)
20:35 "Data containers"
21:23 Security - Where do you put the credentials?
23:56 Developer productivity
29:54 Long term evolution of JS inside & outside browser
32:16 Will Vercel build something for data?
37:25 Cache invalidation at the edge
43:41 Debugging at the edge
49:03 Developer shortage
54:15 Security and granularity at the edge
59:43 Server-side & client-side responsibilities
1:08:05 Handling leaky abstractions
1:15:15 What are Vercel & Next.js doing with open-source?
1:19:27 A/B Testing & Experimentation
1:21:54 Wrapping up: What's next in Next.js?