S5 Bonus: Guillermo Rauch, Vercel & Next.js

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🗓️ 11 November 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Guillermo Rauch is originally from Argentina. He has always been involved in the open source world, starting out working in Linux and native tooling. After a while, he feel in love with the web and the front end web system, working in the early days of AJAX, JS Animation and jQuery competition. When I asked him what he does for fun, he laughed - because he really enjoys what is does professionally on the web . On a personal level though, he has three kiddos so he stays pretty busu. He is into fitness, and does calisthenics and gymnastics. Beyond that, he is into coffee - though I don't know many tech people who aren't into coffee. Having been a JS person, he saw an opportunity to build out the frontend layer of the web. To put that in context, think about what Stripe, Twilio, etc. have done for the industry with their foundational, developer first API's. He decided to create a framework that had no opinion about how you got your data. Along side of this, he created the optimal ecosystem for developers to build very fast - specifically, to develop, preview, and ship. This is the creation story of Next.js and Vercel. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	But I remember I just wanted to create a simple web page that used React components.
0:06.2	In particular, I was trying to build the web page that said, welcome to our company.
0:11.0	Leave your email to get started.
0:13.0	And I noticed that all that infrastructure was a pain to set up.
0:17.0	Like you had to configure webpack.
0:20.0	You had to like basically spend all this time just
0:22.2	working on the meta problem instead of just your Y and your brand, the cool stuff that you
0:27.3	want to share with customers. It's a very simple contract of you can get started with no
0:31.5	configuration and there is one command to develop and one command to build and one command
0:36.5	to run the entire thing on your
0:38.3	machine.
0:39.5	My name is Guillermo Rouch and I'm the CEO and co-founder of Versal.
0:47.7	This is Code Story, the podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry
0:57.3	and build and lead, a team that has your back.
1:02.3	I'm your host, Noah Laphart, and today how Guillermo Roche
1:06.2	combined the best developer experience with obsessive focus on front-end performance.
1:12.6	All this and more on-Cote Story.
1:19.6	Guillermo Rauch is originally from Argentina.
1:22.6	He's always been involved in the open source world, starting out working in Linux and native tooling.
1:32.9	After a while, he fell in love with the web and the front end system, working in the early days of Ajax, JS Animation, and JQuery competition. When I asked him what he does for fun, he laughed,
1:39.1	because he really enjoys what he does professionally on the web. On a personal level, though, he has three kiddos,
1:45.0	so he stays pretty busy. He's into fitness and does calisthenics and gymnastics. Beyond that,
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