112: Guillermo Rauch - Building Serverless Applications with Now

In this episode of Fullstack Radio, I talked to Guillermo Rauch about building and deploying serverless applications with Nao. This is Fullstack Radio episode 112. Hey everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Fullstack Radio podcast. I'm your host Adam Wadden and today it's my pleasure to be speaking with Guillermo Rausch. How's it going, Guillermo? Great. Thanks for having me. So, for anyone who's not familiar with you, do you mind sort of briefly introducing yourself and talking a little bit about the sorts of things you work on? Sure. So my name is Guillermo Rausch. I'm on Twitter at twitter.com/rauch, grauchg. I started my career, thanks to open source, really. Very at a very young age, I was, like, hacking with Linux and all this, like, sort of fun stuff. But my sort of breakthrough moment, was two things. It's starting with open source, contributing to open source, learning from open source, and joining online communities of supportive individuals. Like, I would be I would hang out all the time in, like, IRC IRC channels and, all kinds of websites for, like, programming communities. That led, to me becoming very interested in, PHP, specifically, like, CMS and and forum software that was, like, sort of turnkey, like, PHP, BB, and WordPress, and so on. But then I became really, really interested in this idea of using JavaScript to create very real time experiences, experiences where the end user had a direct connection with your website or application. So I started using this framework called MooTools, that it sort of started around the time that, also jQuery got started in the era of script, Taccolos and prototype JS. That framework was, led to a lot of the, early ideas and, that made it into frameworks like React today. And it was, a lot of people that were involved in mood tools at the time are now working on Facebook or other, awesome, places where they crafted the JavaScript experiences of the day. Another way in which I was interested in, making snappy, like, fast interactions was serving the user with the data, in real time before they get to request it. So this idea of sort of eliminating the refresh button as a thing that people needed to click. So I created a framework called Socket IO, which made WebSockets a lot more accessible, just because it made it easier to use and also because it made it completely cross browser, cross platform and so on. So, yeah, my, my, bio is basically working on open source, but also making it a lot more accessible to a lot of people and creating the best developer tools. And that's what our company does today. So I started a company about three years ago called Zite that is behind the, React Springboard called Next JS that many have probably heard of. Mhmm. And we built the serverless infrastructure for deploying, frameworks like Next JS and create React app and Vue, but …