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by jchrisa 10y ago
We see database migrations all the time in my line of work. Lock-in is rarely the main concern. Usually reliability, operability, and performance are what close deals. Even big enterprises regularly move between radically different architec
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Yes there is a dev jar. We've removed the download for now because we are running our recent release to cloud through the QA process. Check back in a few weeks or contact us via the website and depending on what you are planning to use
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Haha. Well I've wanted to focus on the kind of smooth developer experience and on-ramping that you can only get with a cloud product. That's been super fun, basically to work the experience of the product itself directly into the
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Author here, let me know if you have any questions about the content.
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Escape the cloud database trap with serverless(fauna.com)
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You are making the same mistake the IndexedDB haters made. The standardization effort around JOSE, as far as I can tell, is about making the browser a place where you can run crypto. They want it to be composable because that's the we
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Parse
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The problem is that we lack a story for the future. The only coherent ones are sci-fi. It's up to the folks reading HN to build that future before this one runs out.
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We have some correctness results coming that should address your concerns. Watch this space for updates.
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You can sign up for the cloud version in a few seconds here: https://fauna.com/serverless-cloud-sign-up
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Yes. This isn't near the top end, more like what happens when we run benchmarks on a reasonable web infrastructure class cluster. This is still only 5 machines in each datacenter.
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Calvin is a generalized consistency protocol, that we use in FaunaDB to support relational semantics (but not SQL) in our database. Multi-query transactions can be useful, but the FaunaDB query language is functional, rather than declarativ
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Fast ACID: 120,000 consistent writes per second with Calvin and FaunaDB(fauna.com)
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As a bit of a veteran in the database industry, I concur (at least about the impact on Oracle's database business). There is a lot of pent-up demand for anything that offers distributed consistency. We've been seeing this demand a
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So everything has been running in successively more nested layers of virtual machine, ever since the Magna Carta. What we need is for someone to start a "rust for civilization" project. Further thought: could the thing that&#x27
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We are focussed on winning customers, but we've been happy to see we can turn heads at large scale shops running real installations of the usual suspects. We'll publish something like what you are asking for soon. In these evaluat
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The operations model is similar to most cloud databases, with metered usage. You just configure your app to use the database, and the scaling is handled for you. FaunaDB has a strong consistency, a relational data model and rich queries. T
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Yes. We offer global acid transactions using the Calvin protocol. http://cs.yale.edu/homes/thomson/publications/calvin-sigmod1...
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If you want to skip directly to running code, these instructions (linked from the article) should get you to hello world. https://github.com/fauna/serverless-crud#installation
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This post focuses on ease of integration. In a future post I'll get more explicit about the thesis that there are features operational databases could offer to support serverless (FaaS) execution environments.
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The Cloud Database for Your Serverless Apps(fauna.com)
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If I did the math right, there are 50 empty dwellings in England for every person sleeping on the streets. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/27/squatters-op...
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Oregon has a tax credit for political donations. http://oregontaxcredit.com
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I work at Fauna, and the first thing that came to mind at my house is volunteering in my kids' school. I'm in the habit of doing my political organizing on evenings and weekends, but that doesn't work for all civic engagement
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Supporting civic engagement with paid time off(fauna.com)
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If anyone is looking for a work antidote, here is some philosophy http://www.generation-online.org/p/fp_bifo5.htm
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This looks like a wrapper around the PouchDB replication and storage, but with user-friendly APIs. It's high time somebody did this. They should make a bigger note of the fact that by using RxDB you get access to a large and estab
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Tactically you are right, but the people who fund the think tanks that fuel the fires you are describing, are playing a longer game. Same people and motivations behind the de-education of Americans kicked off by Reagan.
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""my only option was to work for a large employer with an established health plan that would provide me with the appropriate benefits to support my situation"" I think the anti-ACA lobby sees this as a feature not a bug.
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Edge computing is the next multibillion-dollar tech market(businessinsider.com)
4 points by jchrisa 10y ago|0 comments

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