Episode
Fauna is rethinking the database (Interview)
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source · Sep 24, 2021 · 1 h 06 min
This week we’re talking with Evan Weaver about Fauna — 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's the first implementation of its kind based on the Calvin paper as opposed to Spanner. We cover Evan's history leading up to Fauna, deep details on the Calvin algorithm, the CAP theorem…