Resonates deeply with me. I’ve moved personal data out of ~10 SaaS systems into a single directory structure in the last year. Agents pay a higher price for fragmentation than humans. A well-organized system of files eliminates that fragmentation. It’s enough for single player. I suspect we’ll see new databases emerge that enable low multi-player (safe writes etc) scenarios without making the filesystem data more opaque. Not unlike what QMD is for search.
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Good look at the evolution of Jamstack and how much "stack" is required for each different architectural pattern. Really enjoying the conversations and graphics embedded throughout. Thank you for saving some of the best for last - the Teastack! :)
We looked at Pizzly to cut down on integration boilerplate so we could offer connections to a lot more services. Nice to see an open source project solving this.
Thanks for sharing your story Frank. Feelin the honesty hard. I was lucky to be on that GOAP trip with you and Doug. Microsoft just got themselves an awesome new advocate.
Not being on the product or engineering team can definitely be a challenge. What I learned at Algolia is that it's critical to build trust between engineering and dev relations. Dev rel needs engineering to be engaged in community initiaves (and to help code stuff) and product/engineering can get great feedback from dev advocates working in the field about the real developer experience :)
Lots of React-related decisions so far - https://stackshare.io/tool/react/decisions. Beyond the reasons why they chose React, I like seeing the complementary tools like react-mentions.
Thanks! Output formats made this much cleaner than it otherwise would have been and are why it's easy to integrate this theme into an existing project. Sometimes they're exactly what you need!
Thanks for the comment simonw. It's not directly mentioned in the article but we're also using the API clients to implement a DNS fallback strategy. If the hosts are unreachable through their primary hostnames (.algolia.net), the clients try alternate names (.algolianet.com) that are hosted by a different provider.