Web Development is Distributed Systems Programming

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Claim: web development is distributed systems programming, demonstrated by tracing HTTP routing and templating into databases, client engines and many-server backends. A Clojure-style toy builds a shared app state in an atom, uses websockets heartbeat to broadcast the full state every second to hundreds of clients, then switches to sending a delta of app state for efficiency. The prototype runs, maps to patterns from networked games, and scales by adding servers.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:56Web Development Is Distributed Systems Programming
3. 2:52How Many Web Devs Are There
4. 4:55What's a Distributed System
5. 5:35What's a Web Developer
6. 6:57Early Version of Web Development
7. 15:03Heartbeat
8. 16:47Takeaways

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