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Supper Club × Self Hosted Backend-as-a-service with Brandon Roberts
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In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Brandon Roberts about Appwrite, how Appwrite works, who it’s for, as well as his thoughts on Angular, Remix, and more.
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Show Notes 00:36 Welcome
01:10 Who is Brandon Roberts?
@BrandonTRoberts
02:00 What is Appwrite?
Appwrite
Getting started with Appwrite
03:17 What database layer does Appwrite use?
08:17 Is this working client side or server side?
09:54 Great docs and examples
12:55 How is deployment handled?
Appwrite on Digital Ocean
15:30 Sponsor: Lightstep Incident Response
16:36 Appwrite’s focus on developer experience
Appwrite to do with Svelte
19:56 Realtime database options with Appwrite
22:40 Cloud functions in Appwrite
26:01 How does Appwrite scale?
Docker Swarm
27:28 Who is Appwrite for?
Flutter
30:03 What is Ionic?
Ionic
32:12 What do you enjoy about working in Angular?
Angular
35:08 Sponsor: Hasura
36:30 Supper club questions
Night owl
Shameless Plugs Guest: React Router
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