Josh and Austin Figure It Out

Campus Visits and Server Side Rendering

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Josh and Austin hop on the pod to chat about cold weather and late night DNS cutovers. Josh shares his trip down memory lane on the Iowa State campus over the weekend, and they discuss some of the architectural design decisions of campus buildings from the 80s. Then, Josh and Austin dive into the challenges and pitfalls of transitioning a site to server-side rendering. Josh shares his discovery that: SSR is not a silver bullet. They also discuss ways to optimize rendering, the potential of server components, and reflect on legacy code.

00:00 Introduction and Greetings
01:14 Late Night DNS cutovers
05:51 ISU Campus Visit and College Memories
13:50 Shoutouts
14:56 Server-Side Rendering (SSR) in Web Development
22:38 SSR Challenges
23:53 Lessons Learned from SSR Implementation
27:41 Exploring Server Components
30:53 Hydration Workarounds and Challenges
32:50 Astro and Island Architecture
36:02 Legacy Code and Engineering Trade-offs
38:59 Cool Things: TV Shows and Docs Sites

- Silo on Apple TV+

- Cloudflare's Docs

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Josh and Austin Figure It OutBy Josh Larson and Austin Crim