{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/655148df2861630012a1d01b/668abaf3453c109b96138c7f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Brandon Bayer, CEO Flightcontrol: How to unlock peak velocity on AWS","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/655148df2861630012a1d01b/1720367808422-f4a171864c50991276243df28459f20e.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Links</p><p><br></p><p>- Sponsors and Partners</p><p>- Codecrafters (sponsor): https://tej.as/codecrafters</p><p>- THAT Conference: https://www.thatconference.com/</p><p>- Stately: https://stately.ai</p><p><br></p><p>- Guest Content</p><p>- Flightcontrol: https://www.flightcontrol.dev</p><p>- Blitz.js: https://blitzjs.com/</p><p>- Brandon on X: https://x.com/flybayer</p><p><br></p><p>- Book Recommendations and Resources</p><p>- Full type-safety for Next.js routes: https://www.flightcontrol.dev/blog/fix-nextjs-routing-to-have-full-type-safety</p><p>- Obviously Awesome: https://www.aprildunford.com/books</p><p>- Psych framework: https://andrewchen.com/psychd-funnel-conversion/</p><p><br></p><p>- Tejas on X: https://x.com/tejaskumar_</p><p><br></p><p>Summary</p><p><br></p><p>Brandon Bayer, the creator of Blitz.js and co-founder of Flightcontrol discusses his journey in open source and the challenges of building full-stack frameworks in the JavaScript ecosystem. He explains the motivation behind creating Flightcontrol, a platform-as-a-service for deploying production applications to your own AWS account.</p><p><br></p><p>Brandon also shares insights into the pricing model of Flightcontrol and the trade-offs between using a platform-as-a-service and self-hosting with a VPS. He discusses the technical challenges of migrating from PlanetScale to AWS Aurora and highlights the benefits of using Flightcontrol for long-running function invocations.</p><p><br></p><p>Flightcontrol was backed by Y Combinator (YC)—an experience that was instrumental in helping Flightcontrol raise funding and providing valuable mentorship and networking opportunities.</p><p><br></p><p>Takeaways</p><p><br></p><p>1. Building full-stack frameworks in the JavaScript ecosystem is challenging due to the complexity and fast-changing nature of the ecosystem.</p><p>2. Flightcontrol is a platform-as-a-service that allows developers to deploy production applications to their own AWS account, providing reliability, flexibility, and performance.</p><p>3. Self-hosting with a VPS offers more control and lower costs, but it requires more management and may not be suitable for large-scale startups.</p><p>4. Flightcontrol enables arbitrarily long-running function invocations, making it suitable for tasks like web scraping and data processing.</p><p>5. Flightcontrol is focused on removing barriers to adoption and improving their marketing and positioning</p><p>6. The Y Combinator experience helped Flightcontrol raise funding and provided valuable mentorship and networking opportunities</p><p><br></p><p>Chapters</p><p><br></p><p>00:00 Brandon Bayer</p><p>03:41 Introduction and Background</p><p>17:05 The Pricing Model of Flightcontrol and the Trade-Offs of Platform-as-a-Service vs. Self-Hosting</p><p>53:23 Removing Barriers to Adoption</p><p>1:00:23 Marketing and Positioning as a Reliable Platform as a Service</p><p>1:13:07 Accepting the Truth and Embracing It</p><p>1:22:55 The Impact of Y Combinator</p>","author_name":"Tejas Kumar"}