FSJam Podcast

Ishan Anand (CTO) and Mark Brocato (VP of Engineering) join us to talk about Layer0, a Jamstack platform for managing and running your web applications.

In this episode we discuss the origins of Layer0, the definition of Application Operations, the power of CDNs, parallel static rendering, and the potential future of Jamstack without static techniques.

Ishan Anand

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• GitHub

Mark Brocato

• LinkedIn
• GitHub

Layer0

• Home Page
• Twitter
• GitHub

Links

• JavaScript Jam
• The Evolution of Jamstack
• EdgeJS
• Layer0 Starters
• Real User Monitoring

Tessa Mero is the Director of Developer Advocacy at Cloudinary.

In this episode we discuss the usefulness of media APIs, the connection between teaching and developer advocacy, and how to manage code content.

Tessa Mero

• Twitter
• LinkedIn

Cloudinary

• Home Page
• Twitter

Links

• Growing Alongside Jamstack Communities with Tessa Mero of Cloudinary
• Media Developer Experts Program
• Media + Jamstack = MediaJams
• Storefront UI
• Cloudinary and Vue Storefront join forces
• Media Devs Discord
• Jamstack SF

Aldo Bucchi, the creator of Lambdragon, joins us to discuss the death of simplicity, the rise of hypercomplexity, and potential solutions for resurrecting it.

Aldo Bucchi

• Twitter
• LinkedIn

Lambdragon

• Home Page
• Lambdragon and the future of Self Provisioning Runtimes
• The Self Provisioning Runtime

Links

• Wallaby.js
• Quokka.js
• Bazel
• Pants

Aldo Bucchi is the creator of Lambdragon, a pure code TypeScript platform and build tool that fights complexity with fire.

In this episode we define the term "pure code platform" and explain the problem it is solving.

Aldo Bucchi

• Twitter
• LinkedIn

Lambdragon

• Home Page
• Lambdragon and the future of Self Provisioning Runtimes
• The Self Provisioning Runtime

Sebastien Lorber is an open source developer and maintainer of Docusaurus.

In this episode we discuss the impetus for the project's creation, the development of the second major version, its relation to other React frameworks, and the process of migrating a large documentation website from version 1 to version 2.

Sebastien Lorber

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Home Page

Docusaurus

• Home Page
• Twitter
• GitHub

Tharshan Muthulingam is the founder of UserVitals, an all-in-one tool for feedback management and product development.

In this episode we discuss the need for strong feedback loops between customers, support, and engineers, techniques for strengthening that feedback loop, and the technical implementation of running a user facing Redwood application in production.

Tharshan Muthulingam

• Twitter
• LinkedIn

UserVitals

• Home Page
• Product Hunt

Links

• UserVitals Demo: RedwoodJS Meetup
• Just Launched a Product with Redwood
• Faktory
• Prerender.io
• React-snap

Mark Erikson is the lead maintainer of Redux and an internet cartoon character.

In this episode we discuss conventions for simplifying state management with Redux, the challenges of learning Redux for a beginner to React, and the new data fetching functionality introduced by RTK Query.

Mark Erikson

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Blog
• Stack Overflow
• Reddit

Redux Toolkit

• Home Page
• GitHub

Links

• Redux is definitely NOT dead
• Redux in 2020 with Mark Erikson
• Redux is alive and well with Mark Erikson
• Getting Started with Redux
• Immer
• Let's Learn esbuild!

Noah Hein is a Fullstack Web Developer and Technical Content Editor at QuickNode.

In this episode we discuss how to get started learning blockchain technology, the perfect use case for a blockchain, societal differences between different blockchain philosophies, and how to create a Hello World blockchain program.

Noah Hein

• Twitter
• Blog

Quicknode

• Home Page
• Twitter

Links

• Bitcoin
• Ethereum
• Building a Blockchain in Go
• Using RedwoodJS to create an Ethereum app

Jason Lengstorf is the VP of Developer Experience at Netlify and the host of Learn with Jason.

In this episode we discuss the dangers of hustle culture, nascent attempts at building GraphQL gateways for microservices, how to turn a joy of learning into a secret weapon for career advancement, the difference between developer advocacy and developer experience engineering, and objective key results for DX engineering.

Jason Lengstorf

• Twitter
• GitHub
• LinkedIn
• Jason.af
• Lengstorf.com

Learn with Jason

• Twitch
• Home Page

Links

• GrAMPS
• Let's Learn RedwoodJS with Anthony Campolo
• Serverless GraphQL with Hasura with Christian Nwamba
• Build a Portfolio Site with Sanity.io and Gatsby with Espen Hovlandsdal
• Visual Testing Using Cypress and Applitools with Angie Jones
• Jamstack Explorers

Josh Proto is the COO of Serverless Guru, Co-host of the Talking Serverless Podcast, and an AWS Community Builder.

In this episode we discuss how to retool yourself for a serverless world, the value of technical conversations, how to grapple with cold starts, and the promise of edge native cloud functions.

Josh Proto

• Twitter
• LinkedIn

Serverless Guru

• Home Page
• Twitter

Talking Serverless

• Home Page
• Twitter

Links

• The Lambda Monolith
• Lambda@Edge
• Serverless Framework
• AWS Cloud Development Kit
• AWS Serverless Application Model
• AWS Amplify
• Architect
• Terraform
• Pulumi
• Fastly Summary of June 8 Outage