WordPress Goes Serverless

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Claim: WordPress can shed monolithic hosting by treating core as an app and intermittently running a container that connects to an external DB and HTTP proxy, then using a serverless function that crawls and flattens pages into static artifacts and pushes those artifacts to a CDN so public traffic hits static files while admin sessions power up the container. Prototype uses Docker, PHP, REST API and JavaScript front-end APIs to preserve comments and search; ten sponsors on the slide already use WordPress and the approach reduces attack surface.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:30Who cares about WordPress
3. 0:45Who uses WordPress
4. 1:30WordPress is a powerful tool
5. 1:45What about hosting
6. 2:00Monoliths vs Microservices
7. 2:15Service
8. 2:30Surplus to WordPress
9. 2:45Is that really the answer
10. 3:00What is the idea
11. 3:15Serverless approach
12. 3:30CDN
13. 3:45Service Model
14. 4:15Security
15. 4:30Traffic
16. 4:45Dynamic Content

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