Today, we have Dax Raad on the show. Dax is a must-follow on tech Twitter, known for his blend of humor and insightful tech opinions.
We talked a lot about SST, which is the infrastructure as code tool that he works on.
They've got a new engine called Ion that's releasing. So we talked about what that looks like and how that's going to help users.
We picked his brain on questions like, "Which cloud providers do you trust?" "Which services do you rely on?" and touched on topics like frontend development, databases, and more.
We also talked about marketing to developers, he's got a unique take on that. So a lot of interesting stuff here.
Timestamps
02:14 Dax and SST
04:53 SST vs others
07:06 Early Adoption
08:45 SST and CDK
09:23 Ion
14:17 What does Pulumi get
15:57 Pulumi Native vs Terraform
18:10 v2 to Ion
19:14 v2 - long term maintenance
19:59 v1 to v2
20:59 Cost and Generating revenue
22:43 Log processing
23:57 multiplexer
28:20 When to use Cloudflare
37:03 Cost of Lambda
38:17 Containers
40:24 How is Ion running containers
41:42 event-driven applications
43:43 tRPC
44:57 PlanetScale
46:41 Other Databases
47:50 MySQL
49:47 Drizzle ORM
51:28 SQLite
53:58 Frontend
55:56 Server Components
01:00:35 Vercel Migrations
01:02:05 OpenNext
01:07:17 AWS services not fond of
01:08:37 Marketing to devs
01:13:49 Streaming
