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[4487.88 --> 4488.84] Still early days.
[4488.94 --> 4490.90] I mean, people are playing around with stuff.
[4491.22 --> 4495.10] And, you know, generally, this is the same, very similar system to Node.
[4495.10 --> 4500.08] And so if you make a chat server, I wouldn't call that out as particularly interesting, necessarily.
[4500.46 --> 4508.06] I think the interesting bits are kind of around the tooling and how we can make these workflows much faster for people and simpler.
[4508.50 --> 4512.50] But the actual applications built on top are very similar in the end.
[4512.74 --> 4516.36] Let's say I'm sitting on an existing Node app, which is medium-sized.
[4516.90 --> 4520.50] And it's running a business, but it's not like 50 million lines of code.
[4520.88 --> 4521.94] What would a port take?
[4522.00 --> 4523.04] Or what would a port look like?
[4523.04 --> 4526.44] Relatively straightforward, or are there serious dragons there?
[4527.04 --> 4532.46] If it's already using ES modules and TypeScript, it should be relatively straightforward.
[4533.06 --> 4538.54] If it's common JS and kind of old-school-style Node stuff, it'll be a bigger undertaking.
[4539.00 --> 4540.38] Thanks for sharing so much, man.
[4540.40 --> 4541.86] This has been very enlightening.
[4542.10 --> 4542.26] Yeah.
[4542.38 --> 4544.74] I really enjoyed it, and I appreciate you coming on.
[4545.02 --> 4545.20] Yeah.
[4545.60 --> 4550.72] I appreciate you making time in your schedule to finally do the podcast with us after so many years.
[4550.72 --> 4554.12] And I guess we've never really invited you either, but sorry.
[4554.12 --> 4554.98] No wonder you ever came on.
[4554.98 --> 4556.66] It's been hard to get a hold of for the last 11 years.
[4557.20 --> 4559.98] But I'm glad you made time to show up here at the ChangeLog.
[4560.02 --> 4560.72] We appreciate that.
[4560.80 --> 4561.52] So thank you, Ryan.
[4561.86 --> 4562.04] Yeah.
[4562.10 --> 4562.76] Thanks for having me.
[4565.14 --> 4565.74] All right.
[4565.78 --> 4567.44] That's it for this episode of the ChangeLog.
[4567.52 --> 4568.60] Thank you for tuning in.
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• Computing on the edge and the benefits of running logic close to users
• Edge databases and the problem of centralized data storage
• Fauna's solution to edge database latency and imperfections in operational databases
• The goal of removing the concept of a database and making data access seamless and transparent
• Fauna's approach to global and regional deployments, and ensuring data consistency and availability across regions
• The technical implementation of Fauna's transactional algorithm and its use of the Calvin algorithm for multi-region strict serializability.
• Calvin algorithm for distributed transactional consistency
• Comparison to Spanner and other systems
• Challenges to implementing Calvin, including marketing and industry skepticism
• Fauna's approach to handling network partitions and achieving CAP compliance
• Temporal database capabilities and versioned timestamping
• The importance of data freshness and availability in real-time systems
• The CAP theorem and its implications for distributed databases
• The challenges of adapting legacy database systems to modern, cloud-based infrastructure
• The need for operational transparency and resource management in cloud-based databases
• The concept of databases as APIs and the benefits of web-like interfaces for accessing data
• Challenges of trusting a cloud-based database service
• Transparency and trust as a high burden for cloud operators
• Differences between managed cloud solutions and self-operated infrastructure
• Need for transparency in operations and maintenance
• Transition from on-prem to API-driven infrastructure solutions
• Technical challenges in implementing a novel database solution
• Trust as a key factor in adopting a new database technology
• Fauna's unique features and architecture
• GraphQL and FQL query languages
• Perfect use cases for Fauna's database solution
• Fauna is designed for modern web applications, particularly SaaS, consumer-oriented apps, and blockchain-adjacent applications.
• Fauna is not an analytics database, data warehouse, or cache, but rather a transactional database that prioritizes consistency.
• Fauna aims to be a general-purpose operational data platform, similar to MySQL's role in the web 1.0 era.
• The company's founders drew from their experiences at Twitter and other companies to create Fauna, which addresses common problems in data systems.
• Fauna has a unique approach to database architecture, focusing on simplicity and ease of use, rather than trying to tackle every possible query pattern.
• The company has received funding, including a series A and series B round, and has brought on a chairman, Bob Muglia.
• Fauna's founders believe that the company's timing is fortunate, as the market is now more receptive to deep tech infrastructure software.
• Eric Berg was brought on as the new CEO, allowing the co-founder to focus on technical problems.
• Fauna's approach is to build a new interface for the "new stack" of applications, rather than replicating old interfaces.
• Fauna is designed for new workloads and augmenting existing systems, not replacing them.
• The company's model is to offer a "green field" approach, allowing customers to start fresh with Fauna, rather than trying to migrate from existing databases.
• Fauna offers a free plan, with no fixed costs for new users and only paying for resources consumed.
• The company prioritizes the interface over open-sourcing the codebase, as most customers don't want to modify the database implementation.
• Fauna is designed for the typical company, not large enterprises that can build custom databases in-house.
• Evaluating the benefits of open source vs. proprietary systems for business success
• Replicating open source benefits with free trial, local development, and interface standardization
• Shift in market trend from open source to proprietary systems with unique benefits
• Prioritizing business goals over open source requirements for database development
• Addressing customer needs and requirements for database growth and adoption
• Accelerating execution to keep up with customer growth and expectations
• Roadmap for future development, including maturity and resiliency features and query language standards
• Encouraging developers to try Fauna with a free trial and local development options
• Discussion of Fauna and its technical aspects
• Mention of Dr. Abadi as a board member of Fauna
• Linking to the show's blog post and Trust page
• Wrapping up the conversation and thanking Evan for his time
**Jerod Santo:** So we've had a lot of conversations recently around computing on the edge. I'm not talking about IoT or smartphones necessarily, but smart CDNs...? I don't know, you have your Lambda, you have your Netlify and Fastly functions, you have your Cloudflare workers... We have a lot of people trying to push ...