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excerpt: We sit down with James Perkins to talk about how he became a developer advocate. Then we talk about how TinaCMS is changing the way we think about editing in the Jamstack.
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title: Bringing the Jamstack Together with TinaCMS
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## Questions

1. What is your background James?
2. How did you transition to Developer Advocate?
3. What is TinaCMS?
4. Is TinaCMS a react only cms or can it be extended to other Jamstack frameworks?
   1. Why is Next.js so integrated with it?
5. Is TinaCMS similar to a wysiwyg editor?
6. Who is the target market for TinaCMS?
7. Do you use TinaCMS in conjunction with another CMS or can you use it solo?
8. What is coming with TinaCloud?
9. Can you talk a little about Collabstream?

## Links

- [Tina Cloud](https://tina.io/blog/announcement-tina-cloud-is-officially-in-alpha/)
