Human laziness is the ultimate security threat (Ep. 427)
The home team talks with Guillermo Rauch, CEO and cofounder of Vercel and cocreator of Next.js, and Sam Lambert, formerly VP of Engineering at Github and now CEO of PlanetScale. They cover how Vercel and PlanetScale are making the web more accessible to developers, the future of web development for professional programmers, and why human laziness is the ultimate security threat.
Episode notes:
Vercel is a developer-first, frontend-focused platform. Together with Google and Meta, Vercel built Next.js, an open-source React framework that helps developers build high-performance web experiences with ease.
PlanetScale is a MySQL-compatible serverless database platform that enables infinite SQL horizontal scale.
Tools like Webflow and Squarespace have made web development accessible for casual programmers, but what does this mean for professional developers?
This week’s Lifeboat badge goes to user Michael Thelin for their answer to How can I play a Spotify audio track with Python?.
Find Guillermo on LinkedIn here.
Find Sam on LinkedIn here.
Tags: next.js, planetscale, the stack overflow podcast, vercel
2 Comments
Human laziness is the nature of the beast and ADHD is a reality. Thus, if security measures rely solely or even primarily on human diligence, then they probably need to be rethought. Under the same principle, if you don’t want people to trip over obstacles, then it is wiser to remove the obstacles than to blame those who trip for not being careful enough.
I tried going through the transcript but had to give it up when it became too much of a self-promotion from the guests that went on a tangent. After searching, the first (and only?) reference to laziness was halfway through . I understand and appreciate a good product being discussed and a real-world cautionary tale is hard to beat. Maybe I’d read it more easily if the topic was something along the lines of “build to scale” or “go for quality from the start”. As it is, the title is misleading.