[Weekend Drop] Abhi Aiyer & Ward Peeters: Gatsby 4 and the Jamstack Endgame

<p>The following is my conversation with Abhi Aiyer and Ward Peeters, two lead engineers behind Gatsby Cloud and the recently announced Gatsby v4, which is at the forefront of what I think is the most significant change in the Jamstack landscape in the past 2 years.</p><p>Watch <a href="https://youtu.be/R6_ZB4tpE4g">the video version here</a>. </p><p><strong>Links:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="https://www.gatsbyjs.com/gatsby-4/">Gatsby 4</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/04/14/distributed-persistent-rendering-a-new-jamstack-approach-for-faster-builds/">Netlify DPR</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1439966955570618376">My blogpost on Smart Clients vs Smart Servers</a></li> </ul><p><br><strong>Timestamps: </strong></p><ul> <li>[00:00:00] Cold Open </li> <li>[00:00:28] Swyx Intro </li> <li>[00:01:59] Call Start </li> <li>[00:03:07] Gatsby v4 </li> <li>[00:06:23] Incremental Builds </li> <li>[00:07:16] Cache Invalidation </li> <li>[00:09:03] Gatsby DSG vs Netlify DPR </li> <li>[00:09:35] Abandoning Redux for LMDB </li> <li>[00:11:50] Parallel Queries (PQR) </li> <li>[00:13:32] Gatsby DSG </li> <li>[00:15:24] Netlify DPR vs Gatsby DSG </li> <li>[00:19:19] The End of Jamstack </li> <li>[00:22:12] Tradeoffs and Performance </li> <li>[00:24:34] Image Processing </li> <li>[00:27:25] Automatic DSG </li> <li>[00:29:33] Gatsby Cloud vs Netlify </li> <li>[00:33:34] Gatsby vs Next.js </li> <li>[00:35:41] Gatsby and the Content Mesh </li> <li>[00:37:19] React 18 and Gatsby </li> <li>[00:39:45] Custom rendering page fragments with React 18 </li> <li>[00:42:10] Server Components in Limbo </li> <li>[00:43:33] Smart Servers vs Smart Clients </li> <li>[00:45:21] Apollo and Open Source Startup Strategy </li> <li>[00:47:06] TMA: Too Many Acronyms </li> <li>[00:49:16] Gatsby for Docs </li> </ul><p><br><strong>Transcript</strong><br> </p><p><strong>[00:00:00] Cold Open</strong> <br> </p><p>[00:00:00] <strong>Abhi Aiyer:</strong> And so with LMDB in place, right? We have workers that ca