Fauna is rethinking the database (Changelog Interviews #461)

Published: Sept. 24, 2021, 9:30 p.m.

b'This week we\\u2019re talking with Evan Weaver about Fauna \\u2014 the database for a new generation of applications. Fauna is a transactional database delivered as a secure and scalable cloud API with native GraphQL. It\\u2019s the first implementation of its kind based on the Calvin paper as opposed to Spanner. We cover Evan\\u2019s history leading up to Fauna, deep details on the Calvin algorithm, the CAP theorem for databases, what it means for Fauna to be temporal native, applications well suited for Fauna, and what\\u2019s to come in the near future.'