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Efficient GraphQL resolvers for FaunaDB

Chris Anderson

Nov 30, 2018 | Use Case

GraphQL is an API specification that standardizes how clients request data from servers, It is rapidly becoming a popular way to specify the data that backend services should provide to front end clients. It is independent of any ...

Fauna News: Nextdoor Chooses FaunaDB Serverless Cloud to Support Global Growth

Dhruv Gupta

Sep 20, 2018 | Use Case, News

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Fauna, provider of the leading relational NoSQL database, announced today that social network and neighborhood conversations provider Nextdoor has chosen FaunaDB to meet increasing req...

Prioritize Workloads with FaunaDB's Quality-of-service API

Cary Bourgeois

May 18, 2018 | Use Case, How To

All organizations are challenged to achieve the highest possible utilization of the resources they deploy and the processes they use to manage those resources. Database operations teams feel this pressure acutely. This is especia...

Secure Hierarchical Multi-tenancy Patterns

Chris Anderson

May 08, 2018 | Use Case, How To

FaunaDB’s multi-tenant architecture is designed for operational simplicity, allowing a single FaunaDB cluster to support multiple regions and as many applications and databases as desired. Robust quality-of-service (QoS) controls ...

Connecting External Indexers and Data Pipelines

Chris Anderson

Apr 24, 2018 | Use Case, How To

For this blog post, we’ll focus on the pattern to feed changes from FaunaDB's transactional data into a secondary data processing pipeline. The foundation of FaunaDB’s flexibility is our ability to integrate with the data ecosyste...

Talk Video: Build A Serverless Distributed Ledger with FaunaDB

Chris Anderson

Apr 17, 2018 | Use Case, How To

Distributed databases offer better performance, more flexibility and richer security primitives than blockchain-based algorithms. Most contracts are signed by counterparties who know each other, and most business is not conducted ...

Stack Overflow and Glitch Notifications in Slack with FaunaDB

Chris Anderson

Apr 06, 2018 | Use Case

FaunaDB Cloud user Nicolas Grenié has created two open source applications connecting popular services with Slack chat. If you’ve ever wanted Slack notifications when there’s online activity, his code is a good template, so I’ll l...

How to Build A Distributed Ledger With FaunaDB

Chris Anderson

Sep 29, 2017 | Use Case, How To

The blockchain is inspiring a new generation of financial services innovation, but blockchain technology is often pressed into service when it’s not the best fit for requirements, for instance, as a distributed ledger. A distribut...

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