Podcast Season 2 · Episode 5
Scaling Transactional Data Globally with Fauna
We sit down with Rob Sutter to talk all about his history as a developer advocate and Fauna. Fauna is a flexible, developer-friendly, transactional database delivered as a secure and scalable cloud API with native GraphQL.
Guests
Questions
- How did you get started as a Developer Advocate?
- Why was Fauna created, ex-Twitter devs?
- How does Fauna differ form Firestore, Dynamo, or Supabase?
- Can you explain what global transactional capability means?
- What are the drawbacks to transactional consistency?
- Is this similar to the Blockchain?
- What is Fauna primarily used for?
- Demo of FaunaDB
- Fauna for GraphQL Developers - https://graphql.workshops.fauna.com/
- Is the workshop free?
Additional Links
Picks
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Alex Patterson: Vercel acquires Turborepo
Brittney Postma: Fauna connection in Svelte
Brittney Postma: Amazfit band
Rob Sutter: Dunlop Guitar Picks
Rob Sutter: Another Life and the house on the Embankment
