Valhalla to Netlify Connect: A Developer's Evolution

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dustin Schau about Netlify Connect, Gatsby, GraphQL, and more.

• 00:35 Welcome
• 01:20 Who is Dustin Schau?
• Dustin Schau (@SchauDustin)
• Develop and deploy websites and apps in record time | Netlify
• 02:49 Is Valhalla from Gatsby?
• How to Source Content from a Headless CMS | Gatsby
• Valhalla Content Hub | Gatsby
• Netlify Connect Brings All Content Sources & CMS Apps Together
• 05:41 Valhalla is now Netlify Connect
• 09:32 How often should you scrape or cache from another API?
• 10:36 What about auth?
• 13:41 Will Netlify Connect be open source or paid?
• 18:48 Is GraphQL it?
• Overview | urql Documentation
• GQty
• 22:35 What odd data sources are you trying to connect?
• 26:06 How does Gatsby send out to APIs?
• 29:00 What CMS should people use?
• The Markdown CMS | Tina
• The platform to bring your best ideas to life | Contentful
• The Composable Content Cloud - Sanity.io
• 31:22 What do you think of component based CMS?
• SEO Enterprise Rank Tracker - A Keyword Rank Tracking Tool Like No Other | Nozzle.io
• 35:36 What are your thoughts on the React ecosystem?
• 43:33 What’s the future for Gatsby?
• 46:14 Supper Club questions
• folivora.ai - Great Tools for your Mac!
• Noodlesoft – Noodlesoft – Simply Useful Software
• Dank Mono: The coding typeface for aesthetes
• DSchau/dotfiles: :wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible defaults for macOS development (catered to Node.js)
• Deploy app servers close to your users · Fly
• Hono - Ultrafast web framework for the Edges
• Stream Movies & TV Shows | Plex
• The Free Software Media System | Jellyfin
• 56:29 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Arc Browser
• Resend React Email

• Netlify
• Netlify Connect

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