Opening Keynote: FIXME
summary
Claim: decades of conceptual compression let teams ship without deep SQL or full-time DBAs so Basecamp runs one writable database, avoided sharding, and has no dedicated DBAs. Evidence: Active Record matured until no full SQL appears in a large codebase, SSDs and cheap RAM raised capacity, and ORMs handle hundreds of queries per page. Warning: industry backslides with ballooning concepts, platform consolidation (89% ad spend to two firms), and the remedy is more leaky abstractions to widen who can build.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:12FIXME
- 5:48Creative Destruction
- 6:20Sharding
- 10:57ORM Controversy
- 17:26Conceptual Compression
- 24:35Too much mind space
- 26:36Things You Really Ought To Know
- 32:24Leaky Abstractions
- 34:17JIT Learning
- 37:37Easy to learn Easy to launch
- 43:08Old battles
- 44:23Backsliding
- 45:02"Modern" Web Applications
- 46:44Nostalgia
- 47:16New Baseline
- 51:44Alienated from the product of our labor
- 54:06Software latrogenics
- 59:09Liberate the best ideas
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