Join Brian Douglas for this final episode of Jamstack Radio as he chats with Matt Biilmann, CEO of Netlify. Together they discuss the evolution of the Jamstack over the past eight years and its impact on the development landscape. Matt shares insights on the current state of Netlify and the exciting new developments on the horizon. Lastly, they discuss the future of web development, including the role of generative AI and the importance of composable architecture.

In episode 149 of Jamstack Radio, Brian sits down with Joannis Orlandos to dive into the world of Server-side Swift. They unpack Swift’s growing adoption, Apple's investment in the language, its strengths on the server, and its future. Tune in to hear Joannis's insights and advice for anyone eager to get started with Swift.

In episode 140 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with James Perkins of Unkey. This talk examines the difficulties developers face when issuing auth keys to end users. James also shares lessons from his firsthand experience scaling an open source side project into a full time startup.

In episode 50 of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by Scott Gallant and Jordan Patterson, the founders of Forestry.io. They discuss next-generation CMS and real-time editing with their open-source toolkit TinaCMS.

In episode 49 of JAMstack Radio, Brian speaks with Sam Julien of Auth0 to discuss an elegant workflow for authentication and authorization in the JAMstack, dependencies in Gatsby, and storing JSON web tokens safely.

In episode 48 of JAMstack Radio, Brian speaks with Shalom Volchok, CEO & Co-Founder of Digital Optimization Group. They discuss Shalom’s background in online herbal products, and reintroducing dynamic content into static sites.

In episode 47 of JAMstack Radio, Brian joins Andrew Sprouse, Co-Founder and CTO of TakeShape. They discuss the lesson-laden founding story of TakeShape, and how an accessible JAMstack community empowers developers to explore new tools.

In episode 46 of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by John Kelly, Product Manager at Contentstack. They discuss headless content management systems, and how adopting CMS on the backend encourages the portability and reusability of content.

In episode 45 of JAMstack Radio, Brian speaks with Jeremy Glassenberg, a startup mentor and advisor. They discuss iFrames, external APIs, and how third-party APIs can be embedded into existing platforms.

In episode 44 of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by Divya Sasidharan, a developer advocate at Netlify. They discuss Netlify’s clever approach to improving developer experience, as well as the journey one makes when switching from React to Vue.

In episode 43 of JAMstack Radio, Brian speaks with Jason Lengstorf of Gatsby. They discuss the new spin Gatsby’s putting on theme templates, as well as the inherent balancing act of nurturing the open source community while operating a profitable business.

On episode 42 of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by Simen Svale Skogsrud and Knut Melvær of Sanity.io to discuss real time collaborative editing, and how the previous shortcomings of market offerings led to the creation of a new, totally customizable authoring experience.

In episode 41 of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by Paul Biggar, CTO of Dark. They discuss improving developer workflow in the JAMstack, as well as the challenges of developing a holistic programming language from the ground up.

In episode 139 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with Matt Dupree of ATLAS. This talk focuses heavily on LLMs and how they're elevating UX. Additionally, Brian and Matt explore AI hallucinations, tips for predicting where LLMs might be most impactful, and insights on why most code in future apps may be generated by AI.

In episode 40 of JAMstack Radio, Brian speaks with Manvel Saroyan, a developer at eyeo, working on Adblock Plus. They discuss the difficulties of integrating multi-language support into dev projects as well as Manvel’s lifestyle as a digital nomad.

In episode 39 of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by Sean Grove of OneGraph to unpack common misconceptions about GraphQL, and discuss some of the peripheral services and tools available to educate and inspire GraphQL users.

In episode 38 of JAMstack Radio, Brian talks with J.C. Hiatt, Founder of DevLifts. They cover front end frameworks in the JAMstack, scaling up an ultra-lean business, and even developer fitness.

In episode 37 of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by Ben Schwarz, founder of Calibre, to discuss the shortcomings and frustrations of the modern web experience for customers, and the tooling available to improve it.

In episode 36 of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by Zak Islam, Head of Engineering at Atlassian’s Jira platform, to discuss Jira’s entire toolset, and how they are able to simplify complex projects for teams of all sizes.

In episode 35 of JAMstack Radio, Brian talks to Tanmai Gopal, CEO and Co-Founder of Hasura, about what makes GraphQL popular and how you can start using it instantly with Hasura.

In episode 34 of JAMstack Radio, Brian talks to Michael Lynn and Drew DiPalma of MongoDB about how developers are using Stitch and Atlas to power their projects.

In episode 33 of JAMstack Radio, Brian speaks with Jason McGee, IBM Fellow and VP and CTO of IBM Cloud Platform, to see how Knative is helping developers build and deploy serverless projects.

In episode 32 of JAMstack Radio, Brian meets with Nader Dabit, developer advocate for AWS Mobile, which is a team within AWS that focuses on solutions for mobile developers to discuss developer tools such as Device Farm, AWS Amplify, and AWS Appsync.

In episode 31 of JAMstack Radio, Brian meets with Kenton Varda, tech lead for Cloudflare Workers and author of Sandstorm.io to discuss some of the infinite uses for running code at the edge.

In episode 138 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with Nick Taylor of OpenSauced. This talk explores the improvements and new features developers can expect from Next.js 14, as well as expert advice on choosing a frontend framework and navigating the unique challenges of open source projects.

In episode 30 of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by fellow GitHub developer advocate Bex Warner to talk about Probot and the ways its automation tools are improving the GitHub community.

In episode 29 of JAMstack Radio, Brian talks to Auth0 Developer Evangelist Ado Kukic about how developers can approach authentication and authorization using open standards like JSON Web Tokens, one of the technologies behind Auth0.

In episode 28 of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by Jon Wong, Senior Software Engineer at Coursera. Jon discusses how Coursera has approached front-end architecture in the past, what tools they’re using now (like GraphQL) and how Coursera is helping its users build a future for themselves.

In episode 27 of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by Netlify Documentation Engineer Jessica Parsons as well as ReadMe.io founder and CEO Gregory Koberger for a discussion on the future of documentation and how more personalized API docs could benefit developers across skill levels, interests and languages.

In this episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian and Ben are joined by Robert Moseley, Director of Social Engineering at Cloudinary, an end-to-end media management platform for developers. The group discusses just how much of the internet is images and videos, and poorly optimized ones at that, and how tools like Cloudinary can make major improvements behind the scenes.

In episode 25 of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by Johannes Schickling and Soren Bramer Schmidt, the co-founders of Graphcool, a GraphQL backend development framework. They discuss the evolution of GraphQL, the communities that surround it and its use in production.

In Ep. #24 of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by Trey Huffine, software engineer at Postmates, an on-demand delivery service based in San Francisco. The pair discusses the pros and cons of server-side rendering and the joys of React. Stick around for the latest picks!

In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Kent Dodds to the studio for a chat. Kent describes how he manages to actively contribute to open source projects while balancing a full-time job and a family. He also weighs in on why the developer community has over-reacted to the recent React licensing changes and explains how TC39 membership works.

In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio Brian invites Kyle Mathews, founder of Gatsby, onto the show to discuss the project. Gatsby is a framework that lets you build entire websites using React.js. Kyle describes what motivated him to build Gatsby and compares Gatsby with Jekyll, explaining that Gatsby also provides a modern JavaScript and CSS development environment. He discusses the limitations of the initial release of Gatsby and the exciting new features in Gatsby 1.0 such as progressive web app enhancements and a plugin system. He also shares his plans to make Gatsby 2.0 more scalable by including Webpack 3 to support larger web projects.

In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Jacob Schatz and Ben Mischenko. Jacob explains how he went about deciding on a JavaScript framework for GitLab and what drew him to Vue.js. He recalls his first project for evaluating Vue’s scalability and shares his thoughts on Vue’s strengths and limitations.

In episode 137 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with Steven Schkolne of MightyMeld. Steven unpacks MightyMeld’s founding story, objectives, users, and internal team. Additionally, they discuss React development, the state of low-code and no-code tooling, the intersection of design and engineering, and the challenges developers face when integrating new tools.

In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Jeff Escalante, Lead Developer from Carrot Creative to discuss Spike, a static website generator written in JavaScript.

Jeff explains that unlike a lot of other open source tooling Spike was designed to be both flexible and also not configuration heavy out of the box. Jeff also talks about the different factors that prompted the transition from Roots to Spike such as the complexity of the core code base that made it difficult for contributors to build plugins.

In this episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian is joined by Richard Feldman and Brooke Angel from NoRedInk.

They delve into Elm, a functional programming language that compiles to JavaScript. Richard explains that unlike Babble and TypeScript, Elm has completely separate semantics from JavaScript enabling them to innovate on language design. They also examine Elm use cases and limitations.

In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian hosts Zack Argyle & Eli Williamson to discuss what service workers are, and examine how Pinterest is using them for notifications and to cache JavaScript files.

They also examine the value of service workers for serving international markets with unreliable internet. Finally, they reveal Pinterest’s vision to use service workers to deliver a more comprehensive offline experience.

In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Rafael Conde, Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent & Craig Wattrus to share their experiences building design systems.

They discuss why companies need to invest in design systems as they begin to feel the pain of scaling design principles. They also examine the benefits of design systems such as improving the designer on-boarding process, and caution against allowing designers to become complacent in design.

In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Stefan Judis and Rouven Wessling to discuss Contentful, a developer friendly API-first CMS.

They explain the benefits of decoupling your website’s content from its presentation, including better cross-platform support. With Contentful, you are completely free to write your site in the language you want, while the service takes care of the CMS backend, storing and versioning your data, and backing everything up.

In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Vincent Voyer and Emily Hayman to discuss Algolia, a hosted search as a service.

Emily reveals that Algolia’s key differentiator is performance, both in terms of indexing and querying, as well as configurability. They also discuss Instant Search, an easy to use UI library for building a great search interface.

In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Christian Bach, Georges Saad and Charles Ouellet to discuss Snipcart, an HTML & Javascript based shopping cart.

Georges and Charles show that with Snipcart, a shopping cart can be injected into a website with just a few lines of code. Websites using Snipcart don’t have to host any e-commerce parts themselves. They also share their inspiration for building Snipcart and discuss other advantages of Snipcart over traditional shopping carts.

In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Johannes Schickling and Eli Williamson to discuss Graphcool, a flexible backend platform combining GraphQL & AWS Lambda.

Johannes recalls how he was first inspired to work on the Graphcool project. He reveals that unlike Parse and Firebase, Graphcool is based on open source technology and offers greater flexibility in the API layer along with tools to specify complex permission rules. Graphcool lets you stop wasting time writing error-prone database migrations and monitoring log files, letting you focus on what matters: building your app.

In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Ryan Scott Brown and David Wells to examine the rise of Functions as a Service (FaaS).

They discuss common use cases for FaaS and break down the cost benefit of using a service like Lambda instead of a more traditional server. Ryan also discusses the main players in the space and some of the vendor lock ins you should expect across the spectrum when using FaaS.

In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian invites Sashko Stubailo and Jonas Helfer from Meteor to discuss Apollo, a set of tools developed to make GraphQL easier to use.

They explain that while GraphQL is a great technology, the ecosystem of tools for the technology is still developing. They also discuss Optics, a paid service that collects server data and delivers analytics and performance information.

In episode 136 of Jamstack Radio, Brian speaks with Nikita Shamgunov of Neon. This conversation explores how Serverless Postgres is revolutionizing the database game, making it easier, more scalable, and more cost-effective than ever before. Together they explore topics like orchestrating micro VMs, utilizing databases as a service (DaaS), building a scalable cloud service for Postgres databases, and getting started with Neon.

In this episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian speaks with Quincy Larson, Founder of Free Code Camp and Berkeley Martinez, CTO of Free Code Camp.

They discuss Free Code Camp’s ‘self study together’ approach that has grown their community to over 350,000 monthly active users. Quincy explains why they chose JavaScript as the front end and back end choice to teach people how to program. An important part of their curriculum is the invaluable practical training ‘campers’ gain by working with non-profits and contributing to open source communities.

In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian speaks with Daniel Olson, Lead Developer at J2 Design and Shinichi Nishikawa, WordPress enthusiast and key reviewer in WordPress.org’s Theme Review Team.

They discuss Shifter, an interesting new use case for serverless. Shifter is a serverless WordPress hosting solution. Upload your WordPress site and Shifter pre-renders and serves all the HTML files via CDN. Listen in for details on how Shifter works to deliver better speed and security for WordPress sites.

In the latest episode of JAMstack Radio, Brian speaks with Phil Hawksworth, Technical Director at R/GA and Eli Williamson, Creative Director at Netlify.

They discuss Phil’s experiments with isomorphic rendering in the JAMstack, including some of the staggering performance improvements he’s been able to achieve. Listen in for their discussion on optimizing website performance by empowering front end developers, using static sites, and going serverless.