Amazon Web Services

DynamoDB

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Side-by-side comparison of serverless databases

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Fauna | The distributed serverless database

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Everything you love about relational databases with the flexibility of documents

Use your preferred language driver or GraphQL

 Import from your CLI with support to define data types

Develop offline and automate testing and deployment

Multi-tenant platform providing strong consistency and low latency

The flexibility of JSON with the querying power of a RDBMS

Execute complex business logic as ACID transactions

Access your data anywhere via a single cloud endpoint

Works with the cloud infrastructure and services you use

Ensure your data is protected and meets residency requirements 

Accelerate development and smoothly transition projects

 Launch or scale personalized experiences

Start fast, iterate quickly on features and player profiles

Improve experience and off-chain data security

Interact without connections, directly and securely over HTTPS

Low latency applications for a distributed user base 

Modernize your frontend and add functionality

Everything you need to get started with Fauna

Examples and sample code from our API libraries

Guides to help you onboard and accelerate with Fauna

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📙 The architect's guide to building scalable global applications |

Tutorials

Luis Colon

Use Case

Cloud

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Considerations when migrating from DynamoDB to Fauna

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Shadid Haque

Pain points with DynamoDB

DynamoDB pain points: How to address them and exploring possible alternatives

Wyatt Wenzel

Vercel

Netlify

Cloudflare

Edge applications

Global app ecosystem

Fauna's global application partner ecosystem

Shashank Golla

Distributed

Data Consistency

Company

Intelligent Routing Launch

Build low-latency global apps that meet data residency requirements

Richard Flosi

Tutorial

Fauna + BNR + Netlify

Building composable serverless architectures with Fauna, Netlify, and Big Nerd Ranch

Fauna + Netlify

Delivering personalized content with Netlify’s Next.js Advanced Middleware and Fauna

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Implementing Fauna as infrastructure as code with Serverless Framework

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Transfer data in Fauna to your analytics tool using Airbyte

Roy Derks 

Fauna + StepZen

Compose Data From Fauna and GitHub using GraphQL and StepZen

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Fauna and generous.studio: Scalable setup through serverless and document-relational features

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Achieving multi-region reliability with AWS Step Functions and Fauna

Fauna + Django

How to use Fauna with Django

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Comparing Fauna and MongoDB

GraphQL

Fauna + Cloudflare

Building an edge serverless GraphQL backend with Cloudflare Workers and Fauna

Case study: Cloaked

Fauna and Cloaked: A multi-region database solution for a privacy-focused app

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Tyson Trautmann

Features

Engineering

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Understanding the document-relational database

Tom Camp

Fauna + Ably

Creating realtime experiences in e-commerce with Fauna and Ably

Anish Devasia

Edge computing

Why Use Fauna with edge computing?

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Building scalable solutions with Apollo Federation and Fauna

Kasper Siig

Edge computing (blue)

Best practices for edge computing

Jamstack

Jamstack database

Comparing databases for Vercel and Netlify

Kovid Rathee

Edge-computing

Edge computing reference architectures

Monthly Updates

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Product Updates - July 2022

Ndafara Tsamba

serverless

Why everyone wants to go serverless

Furqan Butt

Data residency

Multi-region scaling with Fauna

Gideon Idoko

php-fauna-graphql

How to use Fauna with GraphQL and PHP

Homepage - database-scaling

Overcoming database scaling issues with Fauna’s serverless offering

Zee Khoo

fauna-vs-dynamoDB

Modernization of the database: DynamoDB to Fauna

Product updates - June 2022

Kealan Parr

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Serverless patterns reference architectures

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Evan Weaver

News

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Stepping back 

Roel Peters

Back to the future hero

What is change data capture?

Backup-restore

Restore your database to a stable snapshot on demand

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Eric Berg

Data management, SOC 2 Type 2, and marketing leader to accelerate adoption 

Cintia Del Rio

fauna-dynamodb

Comparing DynamoDB and Fauna for multi-region data stores

dApps

NFT Bridge

Shrink your dApp's server footprint with Fauna

Segun Saka-Aiyedun

Introduction to serverless databases

Data import

Migrate data into Fauna with new data import feature

fauna-serverless-framework

Building a REST API with AWS Lambda, Fauna, and Serverless Framework

The top blockchain development frameworks for 2022

Rob Sutter

fauna-graphql

Accelerating delivery with GraphQL and Fauna

Product Updates - March 2022

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When to use GraphQL, gRPC, REST, and Webhooks

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Create secure, real-time applications with Fauna event streaming

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How to integrate event streaming into your applications

Security

Trust

GDPR vs. CCPA: Data privacy requirements explained

Node.js

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How to use streams in Node.js

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Applying test-driven development to your database

Increasing development velocity with GraphQL and Fauna

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Building integrated centralized and decentralized applications

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The quest for the universal protocol: REST, XML, and GraphQL

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The quest for the universal protocol: Mainframes, databases, and CORBA

Jaden Baptista

Fauna Vercel Edge Functions

Delivering faster user experiences with Vercel Edge Functions and Fauna

Database security

Fauna’s response to the Log4Shell zero-day vulnerability

Fauna Fastly

How to build an edge API gateway with Fastly's Compute@Edge and Fauna

Jacob Jackson

Single page app

Comparing SPAs to SSG and SSR

Bridging on-chain and off-chain data in NFTs with Fauna