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	Podcast:		Frontend First
	Episode:		Tom Preston-Werner on Architecture Decisions in Redwood JS
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		01:18:12
	Publish Date:		2020-06-10 10:00:07
	Description:		Tom Preston-Werner joins Sam and Ryan to talk about some of the architecture decisions behind Redwood JS, a recently released full-stack JS framework he's been working on for more than a year. Tom talks about how Redwood's Services provide a first-class layer of abstraction on top of your backend data models for your application's business logic, why Redwood went all-in on GraphQL, and how the framework is poised to take advantage of future improvements coming to serverless infrastructure. Topics include: - 0:00 – Rails' influence on Redwood - 8:00 – How Redwood Services keep your backend code organized - 12:04 – The decisions driven by the desire to write React on the frontend - 22:57 – Deep dive into Redwood Services - 30:58 – Why Redwood uses GraphQL - 44:37 – Caches & invalidation - 55:52 – Why Cells are more than Hooks - 1:07:02 – How databases can make their way into the JAMStack Links: - [Redwood JS](https://redwoodjs.com/) - [Tom on Twitter](https://twitter.com/mojombo)
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