How we look at software @ Koding

1. How did we build
Koding?
@devrimyasar
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2. Endless debates
• 1980 Assembly vs C
• 1990 C++ vs C
• 2000 Java vs C++
• 2005 Ruby vs Java
• 2012 Everything vs Everything.
• there is a reason these don’t end
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3. Programming Languages
• are not neighboring enemy states.
• because each and every one of them came
about to solve a specific problem that
arised in a particular domain.
• let’s look at the real map.
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4. Techland
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5. Techland
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6. Techland
Assembly
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7. Techland
Assembly
C
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8. Techland
Assembly
C C++
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9. Techland
Assembly
C C++
Java
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10. Techland
Assembly
C C++
Java
RoR
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11. Techland
Assembly
C C++
Java
RoR
JS
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12. Techland
Assembly
C C++
Java
RoR
JS
JS
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13. Techland
Assembly
C C++
Java
RoR
JS
JS
Where do you live?
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14. Techland
Assembly
C C++
Java
RoR
JS
JS
Where do you live?
Do you respect others?
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15. next endless debate
• semicolons! (just kidding! :))
• classes vs functional
• just like the previous point, they are both
valid arguments
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16. actually,
• 424 BC
• Plato’s “Theory Of Forms”
• 1990 we adopted it as OOP
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17. if Plato was a developer...
class Animal
this.canMakeNoise = yes
class Human
this.nrOfLegs = 2
class Person
constructor:(name)->
this.name = name
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18. ‘class’ is not magic...
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19. Darwin figured it out
• Around 1800s
• Human is a Mammal,
Mammal is an Animal
Animal is ...
• Let’s use them like Darwin
would...
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20. if Darwin was a developer...
class Animal
this.canMakeNoise = yes
class Human extends Animal
this.nrOfLegs = 2
class Person extends Human
constructor:(name)->
this.name = name
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21. or else
• a cute mule is never born.
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22. we love javascript
• but we use coffeescript to write javascript
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23. we architect the frontend
latest status: http://d.pr/i/o7oF
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24. and we architect the backend
Koding
.com
IRC
Server
SSH
Terminal
Storage
Server
Kite Kite
Kite
Kite
Kite
Kite
Kite
KiteKite
with Bongo.
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25. expect to see
• Bongo and KDFramework open sourced
soon.
• Kites taking over the world
• doThisWith(cpu:500,ram:5TB,function(){
veryHeavyComputingThatWouldOtherwiseTakeForever(function(){
console.log(“done in msecs”);
});
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26. Thank you.
Any questions?
or reach me at devrim@koding.com
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