James Perkins - Unkey

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In this week's insightful conversation, we feature James Perkins, the co-founder of Unkey. James discusses his experiences at Clerk, his career transition to co-founding Unkey, and his thoughts on the future direction of backend services. He shares the challenging reality of balancing two programming jobs at once and underscores the necessity for strong security practices in every tech startup.

• https://twitter.com/james_r_perkins
• https://clerk.com/
• https://unkey.dev/devtools.fm

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Tooltips

Andrew

• https://github.com/intel/Wasmnizer-ts
• https://carton.run/

Justin

• https://github.com/laurentpayot/verticalize
• https://deno.com/blog/queues

James

• https://reflect.app/
• https://www.risecalendar.com/
• https://www.hanko.io/