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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Rethinking Twitter as a Serverless App

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In a previous article, we showed how to build a GraphQL API with FaunaDB. We’ve also written a series of articles [1, 2, 3, 4] explaining how traditional databases built for global scalability have to adopt eventual (vs. strong) consistency, and/or make compromises on relations and indexing possibilities. FaunaDB is different since it does not make these compromises. It’s built to scale so it can safely serve your future startup no matter how big … Read article “Rethinking Twitter as a Serverless App”

Video October 18, 2018

#165: Building Your Backend with Serverless Functions

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David Wells & Chris Coyier talk about how you can build an app hosted on Netlify statically but still have a backend database to power it. We use the classic TODO app example where the database is powered by FaunaDB and we talk to that database via serverless functions (i.e. Node.js JavaScript functions running on AWS Lambda via Netlify’s extremely easy and powerful integration). Put the JavaScript files in a /functions folder and they’ll be deployed and runnable!… Read article “#165: Building Your Backend with Serverless Functions”

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