Brandon Bayer, CEO Flightcontrol: How to unlock peak velocity on AWS

Links- Sponsors and Partners- Codecrafters (sponsor): https://tej.as/codecrafters- THAT Conference: https://www.thatconference.com/- Stately: https://stately.ai- Guest Content- Flightcontrol: https://www.flightcontrol.dev- Blitz.js: https://blitzjs.com/- Brandon on X: https://x.com/flybayer- Book Recommendations and Resources- Full type-safety for Next.js routes: https://www.flightcontrol.dev/blog/fix-nextjs-routing-to-have-full-type-safety- Obviously Awesome: https://www.aprildunford.com/books- Psych framework: https://andrewchen.com/psychd-funnel-conversion/- Tejas on X: https://x.com/tejaskumar_SummaryBrandon 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.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.Flightcontrol was backed by Y Combinator (YC)—an experience that was instrumental in helping Flightcontrol raise funding and providing valuable mentorship and networking opportunities.Takeaways1. Building full-stack frameworks in the JavaScript ecosystem is challenging due to the complexity and fast-changing nature of the ecosystem.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.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.4. Flightcontrol enables arbitrarily long-running function invocations, making it suitable for tasks like web scraping and data processing.5. Flightcontrol is focused on removing barriers to adoption and improving their marketing and positioning6. The Y Combinator experience helped Flightcontrol raise funding and provided valuable mentorship and networking opportunitiesChapters00:00 Brandon Bayer03:41 Introduction and Background17:05 The Pricing Model of Flightcontrol and the Trade-Offs of Platform-as-a-Service vs. Self-Hosting53:23 Removing Barriers to Adoption1:00:23 Marketing and Positioning as a Reliable Platform as a Service1:13:07 Accepting the Truth and Embracing It1:22:55 The Impact of Y Combinator Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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