025: Jamstack Journey with Evan Weaver, Fauna CTO [Remotely Interesting]

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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