The Swyx Mixtape

[Weekend Drop] Swyx on Syntax.fm

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Shawn Wang about his thoughts on developer experience, why DX is important, and the importance of learni...

September 12, 2022 / 53:31/E420

[Music Friday] The Story of "Viva La Vida" - Chris Martin

The Coldplay frontman explains and plays one of my favorite songs.

September 9, 2022 / 05:25/E419

[Tech] Is relational the new COBOL? - Mark Porter

The CTO of MongoDB talks about why he left AWS RDS for MongoDB.

September 8, 2022 / 42:02/E418

[Tech] Serverless Postgres - Nikita Shamgunov

Neon's CEO dishes on occasion of their series A-1.

September 7, 2022 / 21:49/E417

[Tech] Raft and Eventually Relational Databases - Jim Walker

CockroachDB's evangelist offers another point of view from the distributed postgres world.

September 6, 2022 / 10:55/E416

[Tech] The Limits of Distributed Databases - Sam Lambert

Planetscale's CEO dishes on the hype of distributed databases.

September 5, 2022 / 13:18/E415

[Weekend Drop] DevRel Real Talk - Travel and Conferences

Justin Garrison and swyx riff on travel to Thailand, why you should rehost Conference videos on YouTube, and digress on AWS RDS, engagement surveys, and Vercel's Ticke...

September 3, 2022 / 01:16:31/E414

[Biz] Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field

Getting people to do the impossible.

September 1, 2022 / 14:40/E413

[Biz] Steve Jobs On Pixar

At 30, the emotional rollercoaster of the toughest part of Steve's business life.

August 31, 2022 / 06:45/E411

[Biz] Steve Jobs on Product

How Good Product Companies Turn Bad, Steve Jobs interpreted by Marty Cagan

August 30, 2022 / 01:22:39/E412

[Biz] Steve Jobs Pitching Apple

At 22, "The Rolls-Royce of personal computers".

August 29, 2022 / 04:29/E410

[Weekend Drop] AWS, Cloudflare, and Techbro Therapy on AWS.fm

I joined Adam for what started off as a discussion about AWS Amplify, my Cloudflare vs AWS article, and then ended up talking about being Extremely Online and how that...

August 27, 2022 / 51:25/E409

[DX Tips] Plaid's $12 Billion UI - William Hockey

DX Tips from Plaid Founder William Hockey

August 25, 2022 / 11:13/E408

[DevRel Real Talk] Q&A and All Things Video from Shorts to Streams, ft. Hassan@Vercel, Theo@Ping, NaiRobi@Suborbital, Justin@AWS

We start with Q&A followups from last week, and then go deep on everything video, from YouTube/Twitter Shorts to Twitch/Livestreaming with some legends in the game.

August 21, 2022 / 02:33:45/E406

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