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Gatsby's long road to incremental builds (Interview)

May 6, 2020

Kyle Mathews, the visionary creator of Gatsby, dives deep into the innovative journey of incremental builds, a feat three years in the making. He shares the challenges faced during its launch, including emotional highs and technical hiccups. Mathews discusses the transition from traditional development to serverless architecture and how Gatsby's architecture leverages GraphQL for flexibility. He also touches on the sustainable revenue models for open-source projects and the new Gatsby Recipes feature, showcasing the future of web development.

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Episode notes

Intro

2min

Navigating Incremental Build Launch

13min

Innovative Incremental Builds and Streamlined Tooling Solutions

3min

Navigating Incremental Builds in Modern Web Development

14min

Navigating Open Source in CI Tools

10min

Navigating CDNs and CMS Evolution with Gatsby

20min

Exploring Gatsby Recipes and the Future of Jamstack

3min

Gatsby creator Kyle Mathews joins Jerod fresh off the launch of incremental builds to tell the story of this feature that’s 3 years in the making. We talk about Kyle’s vision for Gatsby, why incremental builds took so long, why it’s not part of the open source tool, how he makes decisions between Cloud and open source features, and more.

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Kyle Mathews – Website, GitHub, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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