In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dax Raad about building on serverless infrastructure, Next.js, and SST.

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Show Notes

00:36 Welcome
01:05 Sponsor: Sentry
02:05 Who is Dax Raad?
Dax on Twitter
thdxr.com
Tomorrow.fm Podcast
SST.dev
04:22 Why doesn’t AWS have a simple way to build on top of it?
07:46 What is Open Next?
Vercel
Next.js
Open-Next.js
10:25 How many people are involved in building Open Next?
11:14 Mapping Next.js to Amazon products
14:25 What is the edge?
18:56 Pricing in serverless
23:33 What about image assets?
25:02 Is the CDK a layer on top of something Amazon is doing?
Amazon CDK
27:23 What is terraform?
Terraform
28:50 What is SST and why SST?
30:54 Do I build with SST or on top of SST?
32:06 How do you do local development with SST?
37:01 What about databases with SST?
40:12 What about build pipelines?
42:28 What is Seed?
Seed
43:52 Any advice for someone learning AWS?
SST on YouTube
46:05 Supper Club questions
Neovim
Toyko Night theme
Nerd Fonts
Astro
TypeScript
Alacritty
i3
Cloudflare
Inside the Meteoric Rise—and More Epic Flop—of HQ Trivia
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