Sam Bhagwat: Gatsby.js & Open Source

In this conversation, we talk with Sam Bhagwat, the Cofounder and Chief Strategy Officer at Gatsby. Gatsby's an open source web framework that enables developers to create websites optimized for the modern web. In doing so, they're ensuring that this digital web infrastructure, that we all take for granted, keeps improving and getting better.

Chapters

00:00 Introducing Sam Bhagwat and Gatsby
00:35 Making progress tangible
02:21 Economic history and building technology
04:25 Looking forward from the history of the web
06:19 Centralization and decentralization
09:38 Open source and global collaboration
13:00 Linux, Git and GitHub
17:11 How Gatsby began
20:01 Models of community contribution
22:52 Why contribution and speed of change matter
24:41 Open collaboration beyond software
26:51 Remote teams and a global pool of talent
28:26 Connectivity and web performance
30:52 Incentives and commercial open source
34:10 Maintaining shared digital infrastructure
35:14 Prizes, rewards and community incentives
36:54 Children, productivity and reasons for optimism
38:31 Where to find Sam

Links

• Gatsby — open-source framework

• Sam Bhagwat
• Gatsby

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