The through-line in Carl Alexander’s career is building things that other developers don’t want to think about and making it easy for them to adopt and use and stop babysitting systems. In this episode of Community + Code, we talk about Carl’s early exposure to programming and robotics and how he fell into a WordPress career that’s been divited into two distinct “acts”: first as the “object oriented programming for WordPress” guy and now as the “serverless WordPress guy.” Along the way, he’s direct about the stuff that people often self-censor: failing interviews, the hidden cost of cheap servers, and how being visible online can feel like paying for growth with your attention span and mental health.
We also talk about what “serverless” actually means, which to Carl is: fewer things to worry about, no more late-night emergency calls and a world where scaling a site isn’t a fire drill.
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