Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 20:40:49 -0800
<p>Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by <a href="https://www.netlify.com/?utm_source=remotelyInteresting&utm_medium=episodeSummary-tzm&utm_campaign=devex"><strong>Netlify</strong></a>. To day we have the pleasure or meeting up with Evan Weaver, CTO of <a href="https://fauna.com/">Fauna</a> to hear about his Jamstack journey.</p><p><strong>People who were remotely interesting:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/cassidoo"><strong>Cassidy Williams</strong></a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/philhawksworth"><strong>Phil Hawksworth</strong></a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/Tzmanics"><strong>Tara Z. Manicsic</strong></a></li> </ul><p><strong>And special guest: </strong><a href="https://twitter.com/evan"><strong>Evan Weaver, Fauna CTO</strong></a></p><p><strong>Who is he?</strong></p><ul><li>Co-founder, CTO (former CEO) of Fauna</li></ul><p><strong>The Jamstack Journey</strong></p><ul> <li>~2017 Global transactional database tech based on Twitter experience</li> <li>serverless before there even was 'serverless'</li> <li>in 2016 people wanted servers not APIs</li> <li>~2018 found early adopters building GraphQL interfaces for Fauna in the Jamstack</li> <li>pivot to developer-led db as a service</li> <li>& the rest is history</li> </ul><p><strong>Being OK with the Weird</strong></p><ul> <li>him & co-founder (Chief Architect) <a href="https://twitter.com/mf">Matt Freels</a> ex-Twitter anarchist hippies</li> <li>Twitter: home of the weird</li> <li>off the shelf solutions like <a href="https://cassandra.apache.org/_/index.html">Cassandra</a> & <a href="https://www.mongodb.com/">MongoDB</a> wouldn't work for what they needed</li> <li>considering the journey of other small teams and how to help them</li> <li>"fundamentally motivated by anger and rage" fave quote of the show & why Fauna came around to help</li> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law">Moore's Law</a> pun</li> </ul><p><strong>Where to Focus First</strong></p><ul> <li>there are only so many large companies w specialized dbs</li> <li>for the rest of us they wanted to make off-the-shelf dbs that would grow with company</li> <li> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_(software_bundle)">LAMP</a> era analogy & steak dinners & web 1.0</li> <li>data replication and inability to modernize</li> <li>100s of millions of dollars a year on <a href="https://www.oracle.com/index.html">Oracle</a> </li> </ul><p><strong>CHCHCHCHChanges</strong></p><ul> <li>from the developer out</li> <li>provisioning microservices and <a href="https://graphql.org/">GraphQL</a> </li> <li>the permission chain of architectural change</li> <li>"you don't know what the future is going to be you just know you need to iterate"</li> </ul><p><strong>Phil Wants to Talk to About Trust</strong></p><ul> <li>the bigger the company the harder it is for them to trust third parties</li> <li><a href="https://fauna.com/trust">https://fauna.com/trust</a></li> <li>is the foundation stable & secure</li> <li>making distributed strictly serializable</li> <li><a href="https://fauna.com/blog/distributed-consistency-at-scale-spanner-vs-calvin">Calvin algorithm</a></li> <li>giving people more information & transparency</li> <li><a href="https://docs.fauna.com/fauna/current/learn/understanding/region_groups">region groups</a></li> </ul><p><strong>Delegating Databases & Legacy Struggle</strong></p><ul> <li>knowing just enough to be dangerous</li> <li>some Phil puns</li> <li>no one migrates their database</li> <li>you can port if you want to...but maybe don't</li> <li>decoupled architectures besides the Jamstack</li> <li>mixing and matching</li> </ul><p><strong>TidBits & ThoughtThings™️</strong></p><p>What is something old that you have that getting rid of isn't easy?</p><ul> <li>sad rags</li> <li>more Pheels about Phil philtting and philing shirts</li> <li>not getting rid of old things...on purpose</li> <li>computer treasures, we want that data</li> <li>ummmmbilical cords & <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118691/">Beautician and the Beast</a> </li> </ul><p>Get started w <a href="https://fauna.com/">Fauna</a> for free! & <a href="https://community-invite.fauna.com/">join the slack community</a> :)</p><p>As always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.</p><p><br /></p>
