Supper Club × Why Netlify bought Gatsby, GraphQL Data Layer, and Headless CMS with Dustin Schau

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dustin Schau about Netlify Connect, Gatsby, GraphQL, and more.

Show Notes

• 00:35 Welcome
• 01:20 Who is Dustin Schau?
• Dustin Schau (@SchauDustin)
• Develop and deploy websites and apps in record time | Netlify
• 02:49 Is Valhalla from Gatsby?
• How to Source Content from a Headless CMS | Gatsby
• Valhalla Content Hub | Gatsby
• Netlify Connect Brings All Content Sources & CMS Apps Together
• 05:41 Valhalla is now Netlify Connect
• 09:32 How often should you scrape or cache from another API?
• 10:36 What about auth?
• 13:41 Will Netlify Connect be open source or paid?
• 18:48 Is GraphQL it?
• Overview | urql Documentation
• GQty
• 22:35 What odd data sources are you trying to connect?
• 26:06 How does Gatsby send out to APIs?
• 29:00 What CMS should people use?
• The Markdown CMS | Tina
• The platform to bring your best ideas to life | Contentful
• The Composable Content Cloud - Sanity.io
• 31:22 What do you think of component based CMS?
• SEO Enterprise Rank Tracker - A Keyword Rank Tracking Tool Like No Other | Nozzle.io
• 35:36 What are your thoughts on the React ecosystem?
• 43:33 What’s the future for Gatsby?
• 46:14 Supper Club questions
• folivora.ai - Great Tools for your Mac!
• Noodlesoft – Noodlesoft – Simply Useful Software
• Dank Mono: The coding typeface for aesthetes
• DSchau/dotfiles: :wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible defaults for macOS development (catered to Node.js)
• Deploy app servers close to your users · Fly
• Hono - Ultrafast web framework for the Edges
• Stream Movies & TV Shows | Plex
• The Free Software Media System | Jellyfin
• 56:29 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Arc Browser
• Resend React Email

Shameless Plugs

• Netlify
• Netlify Connect

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