edge computing

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Rita Kozlov And Brendan Irvine-Broque about Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare AI, browser rendering API, Cloudflare’s D1 database, WinterCG, miniflare, and more!

Show Notes

• 00:32 Welcome
• 01:53 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
• 02:20 What are Cloudflare Workers?
• Announcing WinterJS
• Cloudflare Workers®
• Puppeteer | Puppeteer
• 06:23 How long did Workers take to ship?
• 07:31 Can you run your entire business on Cloudflare Workers?
• 10:52 Interesting use cases for Cloudflare Workers
• 12:33 What makes the edge important?
• 18:05 Managing GDPR compliance
• 19:02 What are the tradeoffs of building with Cloudflare Workers?
• Cloudflare Queues
• 20:22 How does Workers pricing work?
• 26:54 What are situations where you might need longer times?
• 28:50 Browser rendering API
• Browser Rendering docs
• 29:43 What is Cloudflare D1 database product?
• Cloudflare D1
• 31:05 Cloudflare Hyperdrive
• Hyperdrive
• “Serverless” Databases
• 34:27 Cloudflare Workers don’t use a Node.js runtime
• Introducing workerd: the Open Source Workers runtime
• 37:13 What is WinterCG?
• WinterCG
• 45:09 Will we ever see a standard for server routing?
• TCP sockets · Cloudflare Workers docs
• 49:30 What is miniflare?
• 🔥 Miniflare · Miniflare
• 54:05 Can I run Python on Cloudflare?
• 55:49 Cloudflare AI
• Partnering with Hugging Face to make deploying AI easier
• Cloudflare + AI
• WebGPU API
• Cache · Cloudflare Workers docs
• 57:04 Supper Club questions
• 59:38 Sick Picks

Sick Picks

• Get a bench scrape

Shameless Plugs

• Cloudflare Discord

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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Jake Champion about his work with Fastly and Polyfill, the difference between WASY and WASM, what Winter CG is, and what makes Fastly different.

Show Notes

• 00:35 Welcome
• 02:06 Who is Jake Champion?
• Jake (@JakeDChampion)
• JakeChampion on GitHub
• 04:31 How long as Polyfill been around?
• 06:11 What is Fastly?
• Fastly
• Polyfill
• WASMTime
• SpiderMonkey JavaScript/WebAssembly Engine
• 12:09 What are people running on the edge with Fastly?
• 16:29 What is Winter CG compliance?
• Winter CG proposal
• 17:55 What about node API’s being in platforms
• 21:18 What is WASY vs WASM?
• 24:37 Who is Web Assembly for?
• 31:34 Is there anything WASM is not good for?
• 41:39 What makes the Fastly runtime different from others
• Hono
• Smashing Mag - Web Workers
• Worker Tools
• 47:07 Supper Club questions
• iTerm2
• Zsh for Humans
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• Luther TV Series
• Forrest Gump

Shameless Plugs

• Fiddle on Fastly
• js-compute

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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Nick Hehr about the fun ways to get started with micro controllers, writing JavaScript for hardware, and ideas for projects to build involving hardware and software.

Show Notes

• 00:36 Welcome to Syntax
• 01:04 Introducing Nick Hehr
• Nick Hehr (@hipsterbrown)
• HipsterBrown (@hipsterbrown@toot.cafe) - Toot Café
• HipsterBrown
• HipsterBrown (Nick Hehr)
• Nick Hehr on CodePen
• 03:58 Running JavaScript on microcontrollers
• 06:20 What was your first project that got you into this?
• 12:12 Is the ESP32 the most popular controller?
• 14:12 Where do you buy hardware?
• Arduino - Home
• Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits
• AliExpress - Online Shopping for Popular Electronics, Fashion, Home & Garden, Toys & Sports, Automobiles and More products - AliExpress
• SparkFun Electronics
• Introduction 🚀 xs-dev Documentation
• Welcome to Robo Wizard | Robo Wizard
• 16:52 What are people building with boards?
• 18:30 What does the JavaScript look like?
• 22:16 Can you make a Fetch request?
• 25:45 What about Arduino?
• 31:54 What’s a good starter project?
• Johnny-Five: The JavaScript Robotics & IoT Platform
• meganetaaan/stack-chan: A JavaScript-driven M5Stack-embedded super-kawaii robot.
• TC53 - Ecma International
• dtex/j5e: Framework for embedded devices using ECMA-419, the ECMAScript® embedded systems API specification, based on Johnny-Five’s API
• HipsterBrown/on-air-light: An offline-first IoT on-air light for video meetings, using ESP32 & JS
• ESPHome — ESPHome
• Being in the video game with Augmented Climbing | The Kid Should See This
• 36:03 Emulation and debugging
• 39:13 What else have you made?
• 44:31 ESP Home
• 54:35 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××
• 00:32 Shameless Plugs

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• The Opus Intro Kit – Fellow
• jdxcode/rtx: Runtime Executor (asdf rust clone)
• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software: Petzold, Charles: 9780137909100: Books - Amazon.ca

Shameless Plugs

• Introduction 🚀 xs-dev Documentation

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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Lee Robinson from Vercel about React Suspense, server components, the edge, and more!

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Show Notes

• 00:35 Welcome
• 01:34 Guest introduction
• LeeRob.io
• Vercel
• 02:25 Syntax hosted on Vercel
• 04:08 What is suspense?
• 06:50 Benefits of selective hydration
• 13:15 Sponsor: Lightstep Incident Response
• 14:24 How does suspense know you’re doing something inside of it?
• 18:02 How does this connect to server components in React?
• 22:00 How do we use this in NextJS?
• 24:32 NextJS routing future
• Layouts RFC
• 33:11 Will I ever be able to use web components inside NextJS?
• 36:12 Sponsor: Gatsby
• 37:14 What’s happening with the Edge?
• Edge Runtime
• 47:37 What should we use for databases?
• 50:39 Supper Club dessert questions
• OhMyPosh
• Hyper
• Warp
• Svelte
• Hackernews
• Reddit
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• AirPods

Shameless Plugs

• Careers at Vercel

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In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about what edge functions are, the upsides and downsides of edge functions, and what they’re used for.

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Show Notes

• 00:10 Welcome

• 01:56 A big announcement

• 04:33 What is the Edge?

• 08:27 The upsides of edge functions

• 12:13 Cold start

• 18:21 Sponsor: Linode

• 19:24 What are downsides of edge functions?

• 27:27 Sponsor: LogRocket

• 28:35 What is the use case for an edge function?

• 34:52 Authentication

• 37:23 Caching

• 40:51 Are there flavors of edge functions?

• 44:00 Sponsor: Freshbooks

• 46:06 What are edge functions not used for?

• 47:39 What companies offer this?

• 50:58 Sick Picks

• Netlify announcing serverless compute with edge functions

• Syntax 310 Serverless, Deno and TypeScript with Brian Leroux

• Vercel Middleware

• AWS Lambda

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• Scott: Patented History of Innovations
• Wes: Fastmov Precut Parchment Paper

Shameless Plugs

• Scott: LevelUp Tutorials
• Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials

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The world is hitting a data tipping point where vast connectivity requires massive network capacity. In this episode of Smart Talks, Malcolm Gladwell talks to David Shacochis, Vice President for Enterprise Technology and Field CTO at Lumen, and Howard Boville, Head of IBM Cloud Platform, about how hybrid cloud is serving as a catalyst for innovation in a world where computing can and must happen everywhere: private clouds, public clouds, the edge of the network.

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