Supper Club × Self Hosted Backend-as-a-service with Brandon Roberts

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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