Guillermo Rauch - How Killing a Butterfly Can Bring Down a Network

In this The New Stack Makers podcast, Guillermo Rauch, founder of Zeit, and co-creator of Next.js, said much of his work today involves network synchronization. More specifically, he described his work with state and how it’s synchronized over networks and how that has affected his creation of policy structuries for applications. He also described his ambitions to help improve the groundwork for coherent and consistent systems for data consistency models. The theme of interconnectivity is also “a great segue into how our deeper thinking has gone into building a resilient systems from both a service architecture perspective but also within the context of front-end applications,” Rauch said. Specific to the evolution of Next.js, the JavaScript library remains an interesting tool “but what we’ve seen really is that with the rise of Jamstack, the architecture of right your front-end application with .js gets distributed by a global network that gets served to the device and then runs on the device querying an API,” Rauch said.