Kirk Schwenkler is a Solutions Architect for the Developer Platform at Cloudflare. Lots of our architecture at WP Engine uses Cloudflare in different ways, as I’m sure many other tech companies do as well, so we wanted to have Kirk on to unpack some of the interesting things that Cloudflare can do for you and your projects.

We dive into some of the following topics:

• Defining the role edge compute and CDNs play in web architecture
• The difference between Cloudflare workers and traditional origin servers
• The nuances of storing your data at the edge
• How the edge can work in conjunction with headless WordPress

Headless WordPress resources:
https://developers.wpengine.com

Daniel Roe is on the framework team for Nuxt, a Vue-based full-stack framework. Some of our most popular content is on Nuxt and headless WordPress. A new version of Nuxt, Nuxt 3, reached a stable release late in 2022. This new version comes packed with feature upgrades and Daniel has graciously agreed to join us to help us learn more about this new version of an awesome framework. In this podcast, we get into some of the following topics:
✔️ What's new in Nuxt 3 vs. Nuxt 2
✔️ Using the Composition API vs. Options API in Vue 3
✔️ Details about the Nuxt ecosystem

Nuxt 3:
https://nuxt.com/docs/getting-started/introduction

Daniel's Website & Twitter:
https://roe.dev/
https://twitter.com/danielcroe

Headless WordPress resources:
https://developers.wpengine.com

Jonny Harris is a London-based WordPress developer specializing in large-scale WordPress projects and runs the Spacedmonkey consultancy. Jonny has been developing websites for over 10 years. He is most known for his open-source work in WordPress core, where he’s worked on things like Gutenberg, multisite, and the REST API. His list of former clients and employers includes names like Time Inc. UK, Google, Unsplash, and Skyscanner. Over the last year or so, Jonny has worked with the performance team in WordPress core to make WordPress faster and more performant, so we’re here to pick his brain about the WordPress backend.

During this podcast, we touch on these topics:

• Jonny's innovative client work with organizations like Google, Skyscanner, and Unsplash
• Using WordPress with a low-footprint database layer like SQLite
• Scaling WordPress multisite databases with tools like LudicrousDB
• Blocks, Gutenberg, headless WordPress, and the wp-rest-blocks plugin
• Recent performance improvements to the REST API

Jonny's GitHub
https://github.com/spacedmonkey
Jonny's Website
https://www.spacedmonkey.com/
Jonny's Twitter
https://twitter.com/thespacedmonkey