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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

839: Prisma ORM: Local First, Typed SQL Queries and Serverless with Søren Bramer Schmidt

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Technology, News, Tech News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Scott and Wes talk with Søren Bramer Schmidt, Founder and CEO of Prisma, about database best practices, including the latest developments in serverless, local-first, and typed SQL solutions. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 02:55 Søren’s thoughts on GraphQL 03:53 Brought to you by Sentry.io 06:57 Common database mistakes 08:52 Prisma’s stability and user experience 10:42 Typed SQL and advanced querying Announcing TypedSQL: Make your raw SQL queries type-safe with Prisma ORM Prisma Optimize 20:47 Serverless challenges and solutions Prisma Accelerate 27:11 Cloudflare’s potential to dethrone AWS 29:13 Prisma and local-first development Prisma & Expo: A Better Path to Local-First Apps | App.js Conf 2024 35:30 Making local-first development mainstream 40:10 Challenges with async 42:43 Søren’s thoughts on Drizzle 43:41 Søren’s favorite database 47:21 The read your writes problem 48:58 Prisma hosted Postgres 51:44 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs Sick Picks Søren: Cursor Shameless Plugs Søren: 1: Prisma Optimize 2: Prisma Postgres (coming soon) Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0

Welcome to Syntax today. We have Soren Bramner Schmidt on. He is the co-creator of Prisma and we're going to be talking about all kinds of exciting stuff.

0:10.0

First of all, Prisma going local first, able to run PRISMA in the browser and a sync engine coming up.

0:16.7

We talked to about like biggest mistakes on writing SQL queries and just database mistakes in general for JavaScript idiots like us.

0:26.0

We ask them what's the deal with GraphQL and is GraphQL even used anymore?

0:31.0

Where is it popular? They have a new thing called type sequel

0:34.3

coming out or it's already out and that will give you full type safety on

0:38.8

writing raw sequel queries and then finally ask me a whole bunch of questions

0:42.4

about like best practices

0:44.3

on running database queries and doing database stuff when you're on serverless

0:49.6

you're all over the world but your database lives somewhere what's what's the big deal let's

0:54.3

get into it sore and thanks so much for coming on

0:56.4

thanks Wes and Scott good to meet you I'm really happy to be here and excited to

1:01.2

to dive into some of these things.

1:03.0

Yeah, likewise.

1:04.0

Yeah, we've been using Prima for a long time since we launched the Syntax site.

1:08.6

And West and I've been using it before that.

1:09.8

I think we've been down with Prism back in the graph cool days.

1:13.6

Yeah, we were just talking about that how Scott and I have,

1:18.2

I think we've gone through every iteration of Prisma back to when it was a graph QL hosted thing called graph cool so it's been many years what was it like how many years?

1:29.0

It's been a it's been a it's been a wild ride you've been on with us.

1:33.0

Yeah, yeah, for sticking with us for so long.

1:35.0

I'm curious, how did you, how did you end up adopting

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