SSG is dead. Long live cache.

I don't think static site generators serve much of a purpose anymore, given that hosting is extremely turnkey and Cloudflare exists. Use your favorite web application framework for full power and Cloudflare for the speed of static.

Links:
• My website: aaronfrancis.com
• PlanetScale: planetscale.com
• Laravel Vapor: vapor.laravel.com
• Bref: bref.sh
• Cloudflare: cloudflare.com

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00:00 My website loading in sub 30ms
01:07 Shipping sqlite to production
02:27 Loading the sqlite database
04:08 Writing in markdown
05:14 GitHub actions
06:45 Making it as fast as static with Cloudflare
08:28 Busting the cache
09:50 Hosting solutions
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