The title of this week's episode comes from a Hacker News thread where Guillermo argued that the complexity of front end performance goes beyond simplifying your stack to bare web primitives.
You can find out more about Vercel, which recently raised a $40 million round, on Guillermo's blog, where he details what the company has planned for the future.
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Today
Don’t let your backend write checks your frontend can’t cache
Ryan welcomes Prakash Chandran, CEO and co-founder of Xano, to the show to discuss the intricate relationship between frontend and backend development, the potential challenges that universal frontend interfaces pose for developers, and the importance of understanding both your f ... Show More
30m 41s
Jan 16
How AWS re:Invented the cloud
From the floor at AWS re:Invent, Ryan is joined by AWS Senior Principal Engineer David Yanacek to chat about all things AWS, from the truth behind AWS’s Black Friday origin mythos to the development of essential cloud tools like SQS and DynamoDB. Plus, how David envisions autonom ... Show More
28m 58s
Jan 15
Transforming enterprise workflows: How IBM is unlocking AI's potential
In this episode of Leaders of Code, Stack Overflow Chief of Product and Technology Jody Bailey chats with Matt Lyteson, CIO of Technology Platform Transformation at IBM, about the processes and challenges of adopting AI within an enterprise environment. They explore IBM's strateg ... Show More
41m 7s
Dec 2023
704: Stump'd JS + CSS Interview Questions
In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott try to stump each other with JavaScript and CSS interview style questions including CSS contain, naming the 7 parts of Houdini, what ARIA stands for, 5 limitations of serverless, and more.
Show Notes 00:25 Welcome
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57m 41s
Nov 2021
Web Containers, StackBlitz, and Node.js in the Browser with Tomek Sulkowski
In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Tomek Sulkowski about web containers, StackBlitz and more!
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55m 44s
Jun 2020
WebRTC and Peer-to-Peer Video Calling with Ian Ramzy
In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk with Ian Ramzy about ZipCall.io — how he built it, why, and some of the surprising choices he made along the way.
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54m 36s
Mar 2022
Hasty Treat WTF × SSR vs JamStack vs Serverless?
In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about the differences between SSR, JamStack, and Serverless.
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24m 27s
Feb 2020
Are Web Dev GUIs Going to Replace Us?
In this episode of Syntax, Scott and Wes talk about web dev GUIs — what are they, are they going to replace developers, are they good or bad, and more!
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52m 23s