About
David is a software engineer who (mostly) accidentally found himself at his second database startup adventure at Neon. His professional passion is dev tooling, cloud infra and AI. At work, what really drives him is shipping often and talking to customers. However, he also loves the hiring process and helping those around him grow into their full potential.
Outside of work, you'll mostly find him running and participating in races.
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!