With the amount of data generated every second, scaling high-volume applications is hard. Scaling databases is harder, even if you’re hosting your database in the cloud. You need to choose the right database for your application, but what if you need data modeled in several different ways? …

Serverless is a new paradigm in which servers operate on a more automated level, freeing developers from the time and effort of managing them. …

Navigating scalability and security in decentralized NFT marketplaces In Building scalable dApps with Ethereum, Polygon, and Fauna, we explored the challenges in building dApps with completely on-chain architectures. These challenges are rooted in the scaling limitations of Layer-1 blockchains like Ethereum, which are optimized for security and provenance over speed and scalability. Outside the context of scale, since…

DApps are decentralized applications that run on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks like blockchains. The decentralized nature means that no one entity (including a person) has control of the network and is perfect for use cases where multiple untrusted or anonymous parties need to transact. DApps existed before blockchain with P2P apps…

Introduction In our first article, we got our first taste of Fauna relational modeling using the data model for a DVD rental business (adapted from a popular Postgres tutorial). In this chapter, we’ll continue adapting this borrowed data model to learn how Fauna can query many-to-many collections in a normalized fashion. Modelling many-to-many relationships in Fauna …

Introduction PostgreSQL (AKA Postgres) is one of the finest relational database management systems ever created. However, the Postgres we know and love is a client-server database that requires operational setup and maintenance to keep your instance or cluster available at all times, and does not scale easily to the modern Internet. …

Today we’re going to take a look into Fauna’s new streaming feature by building a small chat using Svelte.

Today we’ll be building a small API to see a quick overview on how to use Fauna in Node.js. For reference, here’s a Github repository with the finished project that you can use to follow along: https://github.com/PierBover/getting-started-fauna-nodejs Any recent version of Node will do. If you don’t have it installed…

Fauna and DynamoDB are both serverless databases, but their design goals, architecture, and use cases are very different. In this post, I will overview both systems, discuss where they shine and where they don’t, and explain how various engineering and product decisions have created fundamentally different value propositions for database…