JavaScript, the Cloud & the Rise of the New Virtual Machine
summary
Argues the cloud moves beyond invisible hosting to programmable services: creating VMs with Azure CLI and pulling images from VM Depot, 30% of Azure is Linux, and using Azure Functions and AWS Lambda to auto-scale a 150 TB TIFF OCR pipeline so developers never shush into machines. Shows JavaScript as a full VM/OS substrate — Linux emulators and GCC running inside the browser, asm.js/WebAssembly as real compilation targets — and demonstrates these browser-based builds actually work end to end.
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chapters (26)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:02The Cloud Browser
- 4:37Five Computers
- 6:31The Cloud
- 9:15VM Depot
- 10:38Virtual Machine Lifecycle
- 12:04Your First Car
- 14:55The Cloud is Web Applications
- 17:59Cloud Architecture
- 22:33High Level Technical Discourse
- 25:48Yak Shaving
- 28:33Backend
- 32:40PDF
- 33:58Toyota Prius
- 36:11JavaScript
- 40:03Stop disabling JavaScript
- 41:18JavaScript is an operating system
- 42:51Halloween
- 43:58The Avalanche
- 44:32Is it a thing
- 45:04HTML vs CSS
- 46:48CSS is awesome
- 47:10JavaScript is amazing
- 49:33WebAssembly
- 50:20jQuery
- 51:40VanillaJS
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