Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
The Future is Dead: Long live the Past
Search
elcuervo
June 02, 2012
Programming
4
1k
The Future is Dead: Long live the Past
The Future is Dead: Long live the Past
elcuervo
June 02, 2012
Tweet
Share
More Decks by elcuervo
See All by elcuervo
Airplay
elcuervo
0
350
Quince Primaveras
elcuervo
0
220
Apocalipsis
elcuervo
0
130
RadioFrequencia
elcuervo
0
100
TED: Cronicas de un hacker
elcuervo
0
110
Hackeando el STM
elcuervo
1
340
Teo y los contenedores
elcuervo
0
100
Objetos Encantados
elcuervo
0
140
Skynet son los padres
elcuervo
2
410
Other Decks in Programming
See All in Programming
The New Developer Workflow: How AI Transforms Ideas into Code
danielsogl
0
110
個人開発の学生アプリが企業譲渡されるまで
akidon0000
2
1.2k
実践Webフロントパフォーマンスチューニング
cp20
45
10k
AWS Summit Hong Kong 2025: Reinventing Programming - How AI Transforms Our Enterprise Coding Approach
dwchiang
0
130
Jakarta EE Meets AI
ivargrimstad
0
840
Ruby で作る RISC-V CPU エミュレーター / RISC-V CPU emulator made with Ruby
hayaokimura
5
860
エンジニア向けCursor勉強会 @ SmartHR
yukisnow1823
3
12k
20250426 GDGoC 合同新歓 - GDGoC のススメ
getty708
0
110
AIコーディングの理想と現実
tomohisa
35
37k
Beyond_the_Prompt__Evaluating__Testing__and_Securing_LLM_Applications.pdf
meteatamel
0
110
ComposeでのPicture in Picture
takathemax
0
130
Orleans + Sekiban + SignalR でリアルタイムWeb作ってみた
tomohisa
0
240
Featured
See All Featured
What's in a price? How to price your products and services
michaelherold
245
12k
How To Stay Up To Date on Web Technology
chriscoyier
790
250k
Adopting Sorbet at Scale
ufuk
76
9.3k
Building Applications with DynamoDB
mza
94
6.4k
How to Ace a Technical Interview
jacobian
276
23k
YesSQL, Process and Tooling at Scale
rocio
172
14k
Building a Scalable Design System with Sketch
lauravandoore
462
33k
[RailsConf 2023] Rails as a piece of cake
palkan
54
5.5k
Unsuck your backbone
ammeep
671
57k
Into the Great Unknown - MozCon
thekraken
38
1.7k
Being A Developer After 40
akosma
91
590k
Helping Users Find Their Own Way: Creating Modern Search Experiences
danielanewman
29
2.6k
Transcript
The Future is Dead long live the past
Hi!
Bruno Aguirre
Bruno Aguirre github: elcuervo
Bruno Aguirre @cuerbot github: elcuervo
cuervo
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
disclaimer
None
relax
it’s not about this future
None
nor this past
None
None
UNIX
UNIX DB
UNIX DB WEB
UNIX
than an MORE OPERATING system
than MORE SOFTWARE
Philosophy
The ART of Unix programming Eric Raymond
Write SIMPLE parts connected by CLEAN interfaces
CLARITY is better than cleverness
Design programs to be CONNECTED to other programs
ps uax | grep ruby | sort | uniq
Design for SIMPLICITY; add complexity ONLY where you must
S R P
S R P ingle
S R P ingle esponsability
S R P ingle esponsability rinciple
PROTOTYPE before polishing. GET IT WORKING before you OPTIMIZE it
DISTRUST all claims for “ONE TRUE WAY”
Design for the FUTURE, because it will be here SOONER
than you think
KISS
KEEP
IT
SIMPLE
SWEETIE
None
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no
simpler” Albert Einstein 1879-1955
“Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand
its simplicity” Dennis Ritchie 1941-2011
DB
once upon a time
RDB
ROFLSCALE
ROFLSCALE
None
POSTGRESQL
POSTGRESQL MYSQL
CONSTRAINS
None
PRIMARY KEY
PRIMARY KEY UNIQUE
PRIMARY KEY UNIQUE NOT NULL
PRIMARY KEY UNIQUE NOT NULL FOREIGN KEY
PRIMARY KEY UNIQUE NOT NULL FOREIGN KEY CHECK
PREPARED STATEMENTS
SELECT * FROM fruits WHERE id = 42;
PREPARE fruit_seeker (int) AS SELECT * FROM fruits WHERE id
= $1;
PREPARE fruit_seeker (int) AS SELECT * FROM fruits WHERE id
= $1; EXECUTE fruit_seeker(42);
~2003
QUERIES PER SECOND BOOST
~2011
STORED PROCEDURES
Execution within the database
Complex data handling
Column operations
We want to use Ruby everywhere
DON’T
WITHOUT ORM
WEB
HTTP 1.0 RFC 1945 (1996)
None
None
None
MOST WEB of the
client server request response open open close close
HTTP 1.1 RFC 2616 (1999)
None
None
None
None
Persistent connections
client server request response open close Re use open sockets
close open
client server request response open close Re use open sockets
Enabled by default
Pipelining
client server request response open close
Disabled by default
Get ready for the PAST
Firefox: can be enabled
Firefox: can be enabled Chrome: can be enabled
Firefox: can be enabled Chrome v20: enabled by default Chrome:
can be enabled
Upgrade header
GET /mychat HTTP/1.1 Host: server.example.com Upgrade: websocket Connection: Upgrade Sec-WebSocket-Key:
x3JJHMbDL1EzLkh9GBhXDw== Sec-WebSocket-Protocol: chat Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13 Origin: http://example.com request
GET /mychat HTTP/1.1 Host: server.example.com Upgrade: websocket Connection: Upgrade Sec-WebSocket-Key:
x3JJHMbDL1EzLkh9GBhXDw== Sec-WebSocket-Protocol: chat Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13 Origin: http://example.com request
HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols Upgrade: websocket Connection: Upgrade Sec-WebSocket-Accept: HSmrc0sMlYUkAGmm5OPpG2HaGWk=
Sec-WebSocket-Protocol: chat response
HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols Upgrade: websocket Connection: Upgrade Sec-WebSocket-Accept: HSmrc0sMlYUkAGmm5OPpG2HaGWk=
Sec-WebSocket-Protocol: chat response
That’s IT?
12 years
None
HTTP PTTH
HTTP R e v e rs e
client server
POST /reverse HTTP/1.1 Host: server.example.com Upgrade: PTTH/0.9 Connection: Upgrade Origin:
http://example.com request
POST /reverse HTTP/1.1 Host: server.example.com Upgrade: PTTH/0.9 Connection: Upgrade Origin:
http://example.com request
client server
HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols Upgrade: PTTH/0.9 Connection: Upgrade response
client server
client server
server client
REAL life
None
The Future is not Dead
The Past is not Dead
None
LEARN from the past
LEARN from the past WATCH the present
LEARN from the past WATCH the present CREATE the future
Thank you!
Thank you! twitter: @cuerbot github: elcuervo
None