265: There Are No Free Lunches

On this week's episode, Steph and Chris chat about database transactions and job queues, building static sites with GatsbyJS and NetlifyCMS, the performance impacts of front end frameworks and static content, and lastly they catch up on Hacktoberfest and the complexities of encouraging and supporting work in open source.

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• Sidekiq
• delayed_job
• Que (Postgres-backed job queuing system for ruby apps)
• Transactionally Staged Job Drains in Postgres
• Gatsby.js
• Netlify
• NetlifyCMS
• Middleman
• MDX
• Steph's Monster blog
• monster-cute blog repo
• Svelte
• Rich Harris - creator of Svelte
• Rich Harris on full stack radio
• Extensity chrome extension
• Hacktoberfest
• DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest is Hurting Open Source
• Hacktoberfest Update from Digital Ocean
• Goodhart's law
• Adam Wathan of Tailwind Labs
• Remix Run

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