Alt title: Headless is bad and you will feel bad.

Let's be honest - there is only one good reason to build a decoupled app in 2020 and that's to serve multiple frontend applications from a common CMS backend.

In this talk I - a team member at your friendly neighborhood hosting PaaS - will discuss the myriad bad reasons for building a decoupled app, as well as some of the many pitfalls that most developer/architects don't think of at the beginning of their build.

Also presented at...

I gave this at Decoupled days 2018, but have gathered an additional 2 years worth of data to present.

Presentation Materials

Attachment Size
Reasons NOT to decouple (1).pdf 18.53 MB

Classifiers

Track Audience(s) Experience Level Tags
Back End Development
Front End Development
Sitebuilding
Developers (Front-end focused)
Developers (Javascript focused)
DevOps Engineers, Tech Leads, Lead Developers
All / Any

Scheduling Information

1:00pm - 1:50pm
, Assorted

About the Presenter

John Grubb

Director of Customer Care
Platform.sh

Hi! I'm the Director of Customer Care at Platform.sh, which means that I deal with anything and everything after the contract gets signed.  The portion of my gig that is specific to this conference will be the part about leading the team responsible for onboarding and implementation of our enterprise clients.

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