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 ">00:36 Welcome
• 01:05 ">01:05 Sponsor: Sentry
• 02:05 ">02:05 Who is Dax Raad?
• Dax on Twitter
• thdxr.com
• Tomorrow.fm Podcast
• SST.dev
• 04:22 ">04:22 Why doesn’t AWS have a simple way to build on top of it?
• 07:46 ">07:46 What is Open Next?
• Vercel
• Next.js
• Open-Next.js
• 10:25 ">10:25 How many people are involved in building Open Next?
• 11:14 ">11:14 Mapping Next.js to Amazon products
• 14:25 ">14:25 What is the edge?
• 18:56 ">18:56 Pricing in serverless
• 23:33 ">23:33 What about image assets?
• 25:02 ">25:02 Is the CDK a layer on top of something Amazon is doing?
• Amazon CDK
• 27:23 ">27:23 What is terraform?
• Terraform
• 28:50 ">28:50 What is SST and why SST?
• 30:54 ">30:54 Do I build with SST or on top of SST?
• 32:06 ">32:06 How do you do local development with SST?
• 37:01 ">37:01 What about databases with SST?
• 40:12 ">40:12 What about build pipelines?
• 42:28 ">42:28 What is Seed?
• Seed
• 43:52 ">43:52 Any advice for someone learning AWS?
• SST on YouTube
• 46:05 ">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
• 52:45 ">52:45 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Planetscale

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