In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dax Raad about building on serverless infrastructure, Next.js, and SST.

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Show Notes

• 00:36 Welcome
• 01:05 Sponsor: Sentry
• 02:05 Who is Dax Raad?
• Dax on Twitter

thdxr.com

Tomorrow.fm Podcast

SST.dev

04:22 Why doesn’t AWS have a simple way to build on top of it?

07:46 What is Open Next?

Vercel

Next.js

Open-Next.js

10:25 How many people are involved in building Open Next?

11:14 Mapping Next.js to Amazon products

14:25 What is the edge?

18:56 Pricing in serverless

23:33 What about image assets?

25:02 Is the CDK a layer on top of something Amazon is doing?

Amazon CDK

27:23 What is terraform?

Terraform

28:50 What is SST and why SST?

30:54 Do I build with SST or on top of SST?

32:06 How do you do local development with SST?

37:01 What about databases with SST?

40:12 What about build pipelines?

42:28 What is Seed?

Seed

43:52 Any advice for someone learning AWS?

SST on YouTube

46:05 Supper Club questions

Neovim

Toyko Night theme

Nerd Fonts

Astro

TypeScript

Alacritty

i3

Cloudflare

Inside the Meteoric Rise—and More Epic Flop—of HQ Trivia

52:45 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

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