Sven Al Hamad

Co-founder @WebinyCMS (YC W21) - Serverless CMS and development framework. Tweets about #serverless #JavaScript #ReactJS #cloud

[Webiny Enterprise CMS+ ⚡️ @WebinyCMS]

We won the European CMS Idol 2026. 🏆

At CMS Summit 26 in Frankfurt, our CEO @SvenAlHamad had 6 minutes on stage to demo Webiny live, alongside CKEditor, Griddo, Neos and TYPO3.

The demo tackled a problem most teams are running into right now: AI can generate content, but it usually has no idea about your brand voice, your audience, or the knowledge you already have sitting in your org.

So Sven showed our approach — pick your AI model, define audience personas, set writer personas that match your brand, feed in your own source docs. Then generate full pages right inside the Website Builder, with your custom components feeding the AI as context too.

The best part: the winner wasn't picked by a panel. The room voted. ~100 digital leaders watched all five demos and chose ours.

Full 12-min walkthrough from Sven here: https://t.co/9wJEiQSv4A

Read Boye & Co's write-up: https://t.co/mtgR5V3uXA

[Adrian Smijulj @adrians5j]

@rspack_dev At @WebinyCMS , we've been also experimenting with Rspack. Seeing crazy build time gains. 🚀

Also loving the drop-in replacement capabilities. That's just nuts.

[Sven Al Hamad @SvenAlHamad]

Like everything else, EU started with, "let's sit down and analyse things" (which is good), but it then stalls after that. EU doesn't lack innovation, it lacks imagination.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Mario Draghi's new report on EU competitiveness doesn't mince words.

"Across different metrics, a wide gap in GDP has opened up between the EU and the US, driven mainly by a more pronounced slowdown in productivity growth in Europe. Europe’s households have paid the price in foregone living standards. On a per capita basis, real disposable income has grown almost twice as much in the US as in the EU since 2000."

"First – and most importantly – Europe must profoundly refocus its collective efforts on closing the innovation gap with the US and China, especially in advanced technologies. Europe is stuck in a static industrial structure with few new companies rising up to disrupt existing industries or develop new growth engines. In fact, there is no EU company with a market capitalisation over EUR 100 billion that has been set up from scratch in the last fifty years, while all six US companies with a valuation above EUR 1 trillion have been created in this period. This lack of dynamism is self-fulfilling."

"There are not enough academic institutions achieving top levels of excellence and the pipeline from innovation into commercialisation is weak. [...] However, while the EU boasts a strong university system on average, not enough universities and research institutions are at the top. Using volume of publications in top academic science journals as an indicative metric, the EU has only three research institutions ranked among the top 50 globally, whereas the US has 21 and China 15."

"Regulatory barriers to scaling up are particularly onerous in the tech sector, especially for young companies. Regulatory barriers constrain growth in several ways. First, complex and costly procedures across fragmented national systems discourage inventors from filing Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), hindering young companies from leveraging the Single Market. Second, the EU’s regulatory stance towards tech companies hampers innovation: the EU now has around 100 tech-focused laws and over 270 regulators active in digital networks across all Member States. Many EU laws take a precautionary approach, dictating specific business practices ex ante to avert potential risks ex post. For example, the AI Act imposes additional regulatory requirements on general purpose AI models that exceed a pre-defined threshold of computational power – a threshold which some state-of-the-art models already exceed. Third, digital companies are deterred from doing business across the EU via subsidiaries, as they face heterogeneous requirements, a proliferation of regulatory agencies and “gold plating” of EU legislation by national authorities. Fourth, limitations on data storing and processing create high compliance costs and hinder the creation of large, integrated data sets for training AI models. This fragmentation puts EU companies at a disadvantage relative to the US, which relies on the private sector to build vast data sets, and China, which can leverage its central institutions for data aggregation. This problem is compounded by EU competition enforcement possibly inhibiting intra-industry cooperation. Finally, multiple different national rules in public procurement generate high ongoing costs for cloud providers. The net effect of this burden of regulation is that only larger companies – which are often non-EU based – have the financial capacity and incentive to bear the costs of complying. Young innovative tech companies may choose not to operate in the EU at all."

More: https://t.co/x1d1ApvG2Z.

[Sven Al Hamad @SvenAlHamad]

Not yet 40, but this thread could save me a few mistakes before I get there!

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Today is my 40th birthday. Here are all the things that I know at 40 which I wish I knew at 20.

Starting with…

1. Your relationship with others is a direct reflection of your relationship with yourself. If you treat yourself poorly, then you will unconsciously seek out and tolerate others who treat you poorly. If you treat yourself with dignity and respect, then you will only tolerate others who treat you with dignity and respect.

Get right with yourself. Get right with the world.

[Sven Al Hamad @SvenAlHamad]

AI generated video is super cool ... but how about AI generated 3d scenes, this opens the doors to even wider set of human creativity. So perfectly timed with the release of the Apple Vision Pro .. hmmm https://t.co/Wu9qX7oFsM

[eldad @eldadfux]

Maintaining an open-source project on your own is tough. I know, I've been there.

I'm looking to sponsor at least ~20 open-source maintainers and projects during 2022. Any recommendations? Please tag a favorite maintainer or project who could use the extra 💰

#opensource

[Sven Al Hamad @SvenAlHamad]

@RaulJuncoV A great way to start thinking about how to architect your serverless infrastructure. I would point out how crucial point #2 is when it comes to handling peak usage traffic. Without a Queue mechanism you can easily overwhelm your system. Thanks for sharing!

[Sven Al Hamad @SvenAlHamad]

@lexoyo @ybouane @jonathimer @WebinyCMS @getwebstudio @silex_me 2/2 as well as the trust from many of our enterprise customers (we have several fortune 25 companies we can call our customers!)
And finally there's our developer community with over 2,000 members.

[Sven Al Hamad @SvenAlHamad]

@lexoyo @ybouane @jonathimer @WebinyCMS @getwebstudio @silex_me 1/2 Thanks for the feedback, it's always good to see how others perceive us!
We're a team of 10 highly skilled professionals. We're able to build such an amazing product mainly because of the support from our investors (Microsoft, Samsung, YCombinator, ... )

[Sven Al Hamad @SvenAlHamad]

@ybouane @lexoyo @jonathimer @WebinyCMS @getwebstudio @silex_me I’m pretty certain Webiny is open source :) (founder here)

https://t.co/M7W0Pt1QKZ

[Sven Al Hamad @SvenAlHamad]

Can't wait for @EU_Commission to show you your place @Ryanair - this behavior is borderline illegal and you're taking advantage or elderly and less technical people to boost your profits. You should be ashamed!

[Sven Al Hamad @SvenAlHamad]

I had so much fun talking to Kate and sharing our story on how we built @WebinyCMS. It's also a humbling experience seeing how many of the parts from @alighodsi story resonated with me and our journey so far. Thanks @NEA for having me!
https://t.co/QX4e0EsgMO
#founderforward

[Sven Al Hamad @SvenAlHamad]

@payloadcms It would be great to see how it performs under a load, say a few million records in the DB whilst serving a few thousand parallel users. Also, using jmeter and allowing people to replicate tests on AWS and similar helps with validating the results.

[Sven Al Hamad @SvenAlHamad]

@OmazeUK Is this what you call support? I'm getting anything but support! 8 days of complete silence!

[Webiny Enterprise CMS+ ⚡️ @WebinyCMS]

Have you starred our GitHub repository yet?

If not, please stop by and star https://t.co/B77PsmIYjC today!

[Adrian Smijulj @adrians5j]

For the upcoming release, we finally revisited the existing CI/CD scaffold that sets up CI/CD for your @WebinyCMS project with @github Actions.

Before, the scaffold only worked with public repos and private repos under a GitHub Enterprise acc.

Now, any acc type will work!🎉🎉

[Webiny Enterprise CMS+ ⚡️ @WebinyCMS]

🌟 New on the blog today: Build a CSS Tricks Clone with @WebinyCMS and @nextjs : https://t.co/vQgK9GMAZo

[Adrian Smijulj @adrians5j]

Got tired of creating @github Actions workflows with YAML. Now there's an alternative way to do it, with #typescript 🙂

https://t.co/o60AQTkUwH

[Adrian Smijulj @adrians5j]

With the yesterday's 5.29.0 @WebinyCMS release, we've made big improvements on multiple fronts.

Here are some of my faves👇👇

[Open Source Startup Podcast🎙 @OssStartup]

⚡️New OSS Startup Podcast⚡️

Ft. @SvenAlHamad, Founder & CEO of the open-source serverless CMS @WebinyCMS

Full ep --> https://t.co/RqUBbvqoRp

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