025: Jamstack Journey with Evan Weaver, Fauna CTO

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.

People who were remotely interesting:

Cassidy WilliamsPhil HawksworthTara Z. Manicsic

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 experienceserverless before there even was 'serverless'in 2016 people wanted servers not APIs~2018 found early adopters building GraphQL interfaces for Fauna in the Jamstackpivot 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 hippiesTwitter: home of the weirdoff the shelf solutions like Cassandra & MongoDB wouldn't work for what they neededconsidering 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 helpMoore's Law pun

Where to Focus First

there are only so many large companies w specialized dbsfor the rest of us they wanted to make off-the-shelf dbs that would grow with companyLAMP era analogy & steak dinners & web 1.0data replication and inability to modernize100s of millions of dollars a year on Oracle

CHCHCHCHChanges

from the developer outprovisioning microservices and GraphQLthe 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 partieshttps://fauna.com/trustis the foundation stable & securemaking distributed strictly serializableCalvin algorithmgiving people more information & transparencyregion groups

Delegating Databases & Legacy Struggle

knowing just enough to be dangeroussome Phil punsno one migrates their databaseyou can port if you want to...but maybe don'tdecoupled architectures besides the Jamstackmixing and matching

TidBits & ThoughtThings™️

What is something old that you have that getting rid of isn't easy?

sad ragsmore Pheels about Phil philtting and philing shirtsnot getting rid of old things...on purposecomputer treasures, we want that dataummmmbilical cords & Beautician and the Beast

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