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Docs are often critically important to the success / failure of a project, but what happens behind the curtain? In this episode, we have special guest Jacklyn Carroll to talk about her work on the Netlify docs team and her experience with the world of docs.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. Tools in the site-generation and framework space are evolving fast. And Astro is an example of one such tool which is doing wonderful things. Shortly before the release of its v2.0, we spoke with Ben Holmes from the Astro team to learn more about what's coming, and to fan-rant about his whiteboard skills, apparently.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. The Jamstack definition is a lot different than it was when it first released, so let's talk about where the Jamstack is today and how people can get involved with special guest Domitrius Clark!

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. There's been a lot of buzz about “serverless” and what it is, but what does it mean to “think in serverless?” After all, it's one thing to know what serverless means, but it's another to be able to integrate it into strategic thinking. And in this episode, we have a special guest, Ivan Zarea, to help us with that serverless mindset.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify.Let's face it. Open source is a big world and it can be intimidating to navigate. In this episode, we'll talk about our experience with and what it's like to contribute to it.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. Let's face it. As developers, there are SO many tools for us to choose from!

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. In our first official Debate and Switch episode, Phil, Tara, and Ben are debating (and then switching) on the topic of Monopolizing Technology: Is it good? Is it bad? You'll have to listen to find out which it is!

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. If you are thinking about making the transition from an engineering role to a management role, then this episode is for you. In this session, we'll explore what our experience has been, and things to watch out for if you choose to make the switch!

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. In this episode, we talk about change management and driving forward critical-but-often-undervalued work with special guest Thuy Doan (pronounced Twee and Doan rhymes with “cone”!

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. In this episode we talk about our thoughts on the good, bad, and ugly of a workplace environment. You'll learn about some of our distractions, uncomfortable chairs, Jason's shaking standing desk, and much more.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify! Since the toolchain around web development has become a lot more complex over the years, the path for getting started has felt more convoluted. However, is this really the case? Join us as we talk about what is considered “minimum viable web dev knowledge.”

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. In this episode, we talk about the results of the Jamstack Survey and what we learned from it.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify.Most of us have heard things like CDN and caching when it comes to optimizing what we deliver to our end users when building sites and apps, but recently there's been a trending terminology that's crept up: “The Edge.”

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify.Whenever someone buys a domain, we all know that that side projects always gets prioritized and shipped to production in record time right? As if!

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify.You have values (maybe) and the company you work for has values. Do they align and is that important? We're joined by the only guest to ever come back to our show, Thuy Doan, to get the tiniest sample size of opinions on the matter and learn from each others experiences.People who were remotely interesting: Thuy Doan Cassidy Williams Charlie Gerard Jason Lengstorf Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic As always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify.People who were remotely interesting: Cassidy Williams Jason Lengstorf Ekene Eze (Kenny) Tara Z. Manicsic Zahid Mahmood As always, we hope you find it 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.People who were remotely interesting: Cassidy Williams Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic And special guest: Evan Weaver, Fauna CTOWho is he?Co-founder, CTO (former CEO) of FaunaThe 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 Get started w Fauna for free! & join the slack community :)As always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify.People who were remotely interesting: Cassidy Williams Jason Lengstorf Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic SHOW NOTES:Who's got a favorite database?EveryoneStructured vs. Unstructured Data our first database experiences (lots of MySQL) learning about databases Jason thinks his brain gets bigger when he learns things Microsoft Excel does everything MongoDB & mongoose the GraphQL It is SQL or SQL Shadow and Bone (putting this here for Phil) How do you use DBs in a Jamstack architecture? having to do DBs for "real" sites abdicating responsibilities to the experts at a Database as a Service sharding and giggling from limited options & complicated setups to lots of new options FaunaDB Hasura Supabase PlanetScale, etc. decoupling the frontend from the backend via API endpoints & serverless functions, we're standardizing communication DX & How we choose DBs GraphQL user interface (GraphiQL) on the basis of the API, writing queries, accelerating dev workflow how much do we need to know about the DBs Phil is wise, you're welcome, Phil the dev's comfort level Who needs the top-tier? you probs aren't going to hit Twitter-scale by the time you outgrow the service, you'll prob. have the money to go bigger dbs aren't that incredibly different ask the company what your next step should be if you hit a limit kicking tires/free tiers are so valuable What features do we look for?- a clear, understandable API- an easy onramp to getting started/getting data- what am I building & what are the cost implications (rate limits, etc.)- even really brilliant, smart people like Jason mess up, a story about loops- having a playground like GraphiQL- a discussion of GraphQL hesitancy- Cassidy's professional conclusion, "ehhh"- Jason talks about dependsCassidy exhibits her humor mastery and it shines like the sun!

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify.People who were remotely interesting: Cassidy Williams Jason Lengstorf Ekene Eze (Kenny) Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic Marisa Morby Show notes:  Tuckman's stages of group development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckman's_stages_of_group_development form, storm, norm, perform Collaborative deploy previews and conduits to tooling: https://www.netlify.com/products/deploy-previews/ As always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify.People who were remotely interesting: Jason Lengstorf Ekene Eze (Kenny) & Special Guests Emily con Hoffmann Marisa Morby SHOW NOTES:What is research & how is it done? connect & learn from users there aren't many beakers in tech research, thanks, Jason research has been democratized a lot thanks to tools like Zoom used to be done on-site What is the motivation for research? used from conception thru seeing if your idea works a lot of assumptions without backing start w something you know but then you get out of your depths You are not your user escaping being self-referential  experiences and workflows are different there will always be someone who approaches another way When do you bring in research? across the company, not in just one spot, not at the end of the line before you know what you need to build Research Interviews aka "business therapist" how to ask questions this is not a test "ask an open-ended question and just leave it open and people will fill in the gap" *the Oprah moment* From abstract to concrete function research lead to new presentation which lead to higher adoption Multi-Team Management, cross-functional teamwork...makes the dream work iterative usability testing to make it make sense spending money, breaking things, pain & legacy code OR research  save yourself the heartache  get the feedback from not meanies/angries What skillz do you need? #1 be highly empathetic curious, analytic, compelling story-teller no design or STEM degree necessary understand and care about people Making research a part of Netlify building relationships throughout the company making sure the trust is there via constant communication learn how to do your own Just Enough Research by Erika Hall Join us in the research! https://www.netlify.com/research-program/TidBits & ThoughtThings™️If you had to move to a different field of research, what would it be and why?As always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.TRANSCRIPT:

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify.People who were remotely interesting: Ben Hong Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic & we welcome, Jon Perl & Laura Cressman from QA Wolf

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify.People who were remotely interesting: Ben Hong Cassidy Williams Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic SHOW NOTES:In this episode, we chat about Distributed Persistent Rendering, On-Demand Builders, and more acronyms than we know what to do with

Show Notes DPR RFC: https://github.com/jamstack/jamstack.org/discussions/549 Matt's talk about simplicity at React Summit https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/04/29/keeping-it-simple-at-react-summit/?utm_campaign=devex-&utm_source=remotely-interesting&utm_content=dpr-keeping-it-simple

Discussion PointsHustle Culture meeting goals and deadlines vs? work/life balance team & management influence on hustle culture Burn Out working past wanting to work how to stop working? What's the alternative? what are some ways to change the way we work? what are some personal ways to set boundaries or deal with burn out?

**The Future is in the Technology**- Quick overview of what the Jamstack architecture is and where it's headed- What & Why decoupling- What technologies exist now that help solve static problems of the past (e.g. serverless functions for dynamic data like payments, JWT for stateless auth, build plugins for more autonomous workflow, etc.)- What advancements are coming? (good point for edge handlers plug)**The Future is in the Ecosystem**- How is the ecosystem growing?- What are some new and exciting things being made in the ecosystem?

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Magic workflows (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Holiday cookie season (*´ڡ`●)

Phil's going to hate us

The web works that way (°∀°)b

Little head-bendy but nice ( -_・)?

Maybe the world just got a little more complex ٩ʕ◕౪◕ʔو

Does anyone know what we're doing? ₍₍ (̨̡ ‾᷄⌂‾᷅)̧̢ ₎₎

Giving a talk to no one ヽ(´∇´)ノ

Hey everybody look how smart I am! (╭ರᴥ•́)

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I yam who I yam ٩(^෴^)۶

Where are the passionate forklift drivers? (๑•﹏•)

Don't get blogged down [≡] 〆(・⺫・‶)

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