A presentation at O’Reilly Infrastructure & Ops Superstream Series: Microservices & DevOps by Melissa Houghton
JavaScript in the Cloud melissahoughton.dev melissahoughton @meliss_houghton melissa-houghton
What is the cloud? @meliss_houghton
There is no cloud It’s just someone else’s computer @meliss_houghton
What is JavaScript? @meliss_houghton
History of JavaScript 1995 JavaScript Released Today Most websites use JavaScript @meliss_houghton
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Serverless with JavaScript @meliss_houghton
Azure Functions Cloud Functions Lambda Functions @meliss_houghton
Serverless Microservices @meliss_houghton
Source: Microsoft https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/building-serverless-microservices-in-azure-sample-architecture/ @meliss_houghton
Tools for JavaScript Devs on the Cloud @meliss_houghton
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JavaScript SDKs @meliss_houghton
Source: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/javascript/azure-sdk-library-package-index @meliss_houghton
Azure Digital Twins SDK @meliss_houghton
Source: https://github.com/Azure-Samples/digital-twins-explorer @meliss_houghton
Azure Cognitive Services SDK @meliss_houghton
Static Web Apps Source: Microsoft https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/overview @meliss_houghton
GitHub Actions with JavaScript Source: https://lab.github.com/githubtraining/github-actions:-writing-javascript-actions @meliss_houghton
Summary @meliss_houghton
Power of JavaScript @meliss_houghton
Atwood’s Law Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.
A look at all the fun stuff you can do with JavaScript, in the cloud!
Traditionally, JavaScript is the language of the web, and it still is. But today it’s so much more. With the advent of server-side JavaScript and JavaScript support in major cloud platforms, JavaScript’s power increased dramatically.
From building, maintaining, optimising and deploying, the end to end development and delivery process is possible with JavaScript in the cloud.
Cloud platforms give us the tools, elasticity and scalability to create high performing applications without managing the physical infrastructure.
Take advantage of the cloud while using a language you already know: JavaScript!
The following resources were mentioned during the presentation or are useful additional information.
Blog by John Papa where he takes you through a fist look at Static Web Apps in Azure
Learn to create custom GitHub Actions with JavaScript
Blog by Jeff Atwood where he defined Atwood’s law as a corollary to Tim Berners-Lee Rule of Least Power
Usage Statistics of JavaScript as a client-side programming language on websites
for free. You
can too.