dev infrastructure

In this episode we speak to Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, a platform for globally distributed applications. We discuss the meaning of “developer experience”, how complexity is managed to help developers get started quickly but still be able to scale multiple systems, the role of monorepos and monolithic application architectures, and how to think about globally deployed serverless databases.

About Guillermo Rauch

Guillermo Rauch is CEO of Vercel. Before starting Vercel in November 2015, Guillermo was the CTO and co-founder of LearnBoost and Cloudup, acquired by Automattic in 2013. He is the creator of several popular Node.js open source libraries like Socket.io, Mongoose and Slackin. Prior to Node.js, he was a core developer of the MooTools frontend toolkit. Passionate about open source as an education medium, he is a former mentor of an Open Source Engineering class organized and pioneered by Stanford, with students from Harvard, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, UPenn, Columbia and others.

Other things mentioned:

• Vercel
• NextJS
• Turbo Repo
• Copilot
• Neovim
• Edge functions
• SvelteKit
• MacBook Pro M1
• Notion
• Slack
• GitHub

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Recorded: 2022-04-27.

In this episode we speak with John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, a global web platform built for security and performance. We discuss the philosophy behind the idea that the network is a computer, why developers should be able to ignore the low level details of where their code runs, and the challenges of deploying data centers on Mars.

About John Graham-Cumming

John Graham-Cumming is the CTO of Cloudflare and is a computer programmer and author. He studied mathematics and computation at Oxford and stayed for a doctorate in computer security. As a programmer, he has worked in Silicon Valley and New York, the UK, Lisbon, Germany, and France. His open source POPFile program won a Jolt Productivity Award in 2004.

He is the author of a travel book for scientists published in 2009 called The Geek Atlas and has written articles for The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, New Scientist, and other publications.

Things mentioned:

• Apple silicon
• Arm
• IBM
• Intel
• Starlink
• Donald Knute
• Cloudflare Workers
• V8
• Go
• Rust
• WebAssembly (Wasm)
• COBOL
• Green Compute
• Cloudflare Wrangler
• J programming language
• Raspberry Pi
• Jgc.org

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Recorded: 2021-11-24