About
Brian Holt currently serves as a staff product manager at Neon, bringing his robust experience in JavaScript engineering to the product. With a rich background that includes being a JavaScript engineer and PM at tech giants like Netflix, Stripe, Snowflake, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Reddit, Brian has a keen eye for developer experience and cloud services.
Beyond the office, Brian is probably drinking coffee or beer, playing Dota 2 poorly, snowboarding anywhere he can, and playing with his son and dog in Sacramento.
The Upsidedown Stack: React on the Server and Postgres in the Browser
The full stack is now the upsidedown stack. We are habituated to the traditional architecture of a frontend app making an API request to a backend server, which makes a request to a database. At minimum, you have multiple round trips of requests adding hundreds of milliseconds, if not whole seconds.
With recent developments in React with server components and with databases with local-first tools like pglite, you can flip the full stack upsidedown and no longer be limited network latency!