May 23, 2012 LA Hack Night

• Location: http://spire.io HQ
• Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Hack-Night/events/60609452/

Warning

I like the spire.io guys but I’m going to do my best to pierce the marketing hype tonight and see what they are really doing.

Note

Presentation was given on a monitor. Should have been done off of a projector.

What is Serverless?

• You can just write HTML and CSS and they do the rest.

  • They handle users.
  • They handle authentication and authorization.
  • They handle messaging.
  • They handle load balancing and scaling.
  • You don’t have to worry about choosing databases.

• Fast prototyping

• Scalable

• Secure (security is not an afterthought)

Load testing

• Can handle HN and Tech Crunch swamping.
• 10K requests per second, which will dwarf anything HN or Tech Crunch can do.
• Currently they manually spin up servers. They are working on automation.

Current APIs

• Identity

  • Create and authenticate users

• Messaging

  • Send messages to thousands of clients in real-time

• Data (coming soon)

Spire.io is Secure

• Capability security (priniciple of least priviledge)
• All traffic in HTTPS
• No need to put password or secret in your client side code

Spire.io is Scalable

• Distributed architecture

• Built with Node.js, Redis, and JRuby

  • Node.js for dispatch handling
  • Redis for speed
  • JRuby for spinning off of tasks

Simple app demo

• Code: https://github.com/spire-io/hacknight-note-app
• Demo: http://iriecycle.net/hacknight/

Spire.io uses CORS

• Like JSONP but better
• See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing