Server-less Applications Powered by Web Components

Explore the concept of server-less applications powered by Web Components in this JSConf EU 2014 talk. Discover how the Guardian built Web Components that fetch deployment and monitoring stats, allowing for the creation of live dashboards using plain HTML without JavaScript. Learn about the 2-tiered web architecture where browsers directly access cloud services, and the declarative power of combining simple Web Components. Gain insights into using open APIs and the AWS JavaScript SDK to run applications off static pages, communicating directly with monitoring APIs like Graphite and AWS CloudWatch. Understand how this approach eliminates the need for spinning up servers and writing custom scripts for web applications and metric graphing.