025: Jamstack Journey with Evan Weaver, Fauna CTO
can i ask you about trust (*ﾟｰﾟ)ゞ.
Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. To day we have the pleasure or meeting up with Evan Weaver, CTO of Fauna to hear about his Jamstack journey.
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And special guest: Evan Weaver, Fauna CTO
Who is he?
- Co-founder, CTO (former CEO) of Fauna
The Jamstack Journey
- ~2017 Global transactional database tech based on Twitter experience
- serverless before there even was 'serverless'
- in 2016 people wanted servers not APIs
- ~2018 found early adopters building GraphQL interfaces for Fauna in the Jamstack
- pivot to developer-led db as a service
- & the rest is history
Being OK with the Weird
- him & co-founder (Chief Architect) Matt Freels ex-Twitter anarchist hippies
- Twitter: home of the weird
- off the shelf solutions like Cassandra & MongoDB wouldn't work for what they needed
- considering the journey of other small teams and how to help them
- "fundamentally motivated by anger and rage" fave quote of the show & why Fauna came around to help
- Moore's Law pun
Where to Focus First
- there are only so many large companies w specialized dbs
- for the rest of us they wanted to make off-the-shelf dbs that would grow with company
- LAMP era analogy & steak dinners & web 1.0
- data replication and inability to modernize
- 100s of millions of dollars a year on Oracle
CHCHCHCHChanges
- from the developer out
- provisioning microservices and GraphQL
- the permission chain of architectural change
- "you don't know what the future is going to be you just know you need to iterate"
Phil Wants to Talk to About Trust
- the bigger the company the harder it is for them to trust third parties
- https://fauna.com/trust
- is the foundation stable & secure
- making distributed strictly serializable
- Calvin algorithm
- giving people more information & transparency
- region groups
Delegating Databases & Legacy Struggle
- knowing just enough to be dangerous
- some Phil puns
- no one migrates their database
- you can port if you want to...but maybe don't
- decoupled architectures besides the Jamstack
- mixing and matching
TidBits & ThoughtThings™️
What is something old that you have that getting rid of isn't easy?
- sad rags
- more Pheels about Phil philtting and philing shirts
- not getting rid of old things...on purpose
- computer treasures, we want that data
- ummmmbilical cords & Beautician and the Beast
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