Earlier this week, Matt Mullenweg and Matt Biilmann squared off in a “fireside chat” about Jamstack vs. WordPress…which got pretty fiery! The official video isn’t yet released, but I had the transcript and so here’s my writeup.
“Developers, developers, developers!” That classic Steve Ballmer chant is being heard loud & clear again in the tech ecosystem, according to the Developer-Led Landscape thesis of Tyler Jewell from Dell Technologies Capital. I spoke to Tyler for my latest column.
My latest column: JAMstack vs. WordPress: which is the future of web architecture? For insights into that question, I spoke with Stackbit CEO (and Netlify board member) Ohad Eder-Pressman. We also discussed his wager with WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg.
Good overview of the prevailing software architecture and application hosting models of the past 50 years, up to the serverless paradigm trending today.
“JAMstack is a regression for the vast majority of the people adopting it,” WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg told me for my column this week. He questions the usability and functionality of JAMstack, and says it is a fragile chain of services.
Tyler Jewell, Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital, has an interesting investment thesis he calls “developer-led investing.” His LinkedIn post in July had some thoughts on the future of DevOps.