Matt Freels

@samlambert @TysonTrautmann Thanks, Sam. I appreciate the kind words

@TysonTrautmann I know how hard this part of tech is. You guys went out with something super bold and genuinely innovational. It's the only way to go.

real talk i have insane respect for the fauna team. changed the game. did something super bold. hats off.

@ssougou @fauna @hollylawly Definitely is! It's by far my favorite conference I've been to. Would love to check out your blog series on it!

@mf @fauna OMG. That was you? That conference was intense. I've refined my thougths since then. It took an 8-part blog series to write it all down, thanks to @hollylawly for keeping me on point.

I remember having one of the most interesting conversations about consensus algorithms with someone from @fauna at HPTS. But I don't remember who it was.

@yenkel @fauna @OpenFGA Thanks, appreciate the kind words!

my thoughts on @fauna: 1. databases are hard 2. solid dist sys research and implementation. did a deep for @OpenFGA research back in the day 3. they are doing a good job helping customers with alternatives considering the situation all in all 👏

Always fun talking to developers about what databases they're using, what is/isn't working, and how we can solve real pain and help them move faster. Be sure to drop by the @fauna booth in the expo if you're at @AWSreInvent !

@eatonphil @sunbains In this way it loses some benefits of sharding despite still paying the costs associated with 2PC.

@eatonphil @sunbains They way I think about these 2PC systems is that they all use different ways to lower the cost of transaction ordering compared to 2PL. Percolator (and by extension TiDB) is unique here with the choice of a centralized oracle.

Two major families of highly available, scalable, (relatively) consistent databases: 1. Single global transaction ordering, with sharding only in the storage layer (Calvin, FaunaDB, TiDB, FoundationDB, Percolator) 2. Sharded transactions with two-phase commit (Yugabyte, Cockroach, Spanner) The classification is quite helpful, though the rest of the post goes into quite an attack on the latter style for being insufficiently consistent (outside of Spanner). dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2018/09/newsql…

A thread about #NoSQL and serverside-functions. The move from traditional #RDBMS to NoSQL #databases brought many advantages but also led to the loss of some critical features; one example is stored procedures. Cloud services like #AWS Lambda and #Azure Functions have attempted to fill this gap but often fall short in proximity to data, consistency, and regional constraints. @fauna's document-relational database model addresses these challenges by reintegrating stored procedure-like functionality directly within the database, negating the need for external services and their associated complexities for some use cases. It's not a replacement for all use cases!!!

There's an interesting disconnect between the religious fervor for SQL that has emerged over the last few years and the views of engineering leaders in my network that have experienced the pain of configuring/managing/scaling current SQL offerings, debugging complex/opaque performance issues stemming from ORM translation/query planner choices, etc. in the real world. The SQL (re-)hype seems driven by the realization that relational features such as transactions, strong consistency, schema/enforcement, and first-class relationships are critical and are missing (or half-baked) in many NoSQL databases, which is very valid. But those features aren't intrinsically bound to SQL as a DQL/DML and they are front and center in modern NoSQL databases like @Fauna. SQL was developed in the 1970s for humans writing analytical queries; it wasn't designed for operational databases that are primarily consumed by applications and the object–relational impedance mismatch is a real problem. The biggest benefit today is that it is a widely adopted standard, with many practitioners and a lot of tooling built around it. But languages and standards change over time, and the state of the art in operational databases has advanced to the point where that benefit typically isn't worth the cost.

🌍 Big news today! Meet the future with Fauna — we’re unveiling game-changing innovations to our distributed document-relational database! 🚀📊

Very excited about this! Lots of work by the team went into this launch. VPF gives you precise control over your Fauna deployment, including choice of cloud provider.

snippet from our recent video with @fauna - why the future of serverless databases is distributed document-relational youtube.com/watch?v=7AHUt8…. check out the whole conversation on youtube

Really excited streaming is out! Some powerful guarantees that didn't make it to the announcement post: Events are delivered in transaction order, and you can be guaranteed to never miss an event. Can't wait to see what folks build with this. fauna.com/blog/event-str…

Sooo... I've always loved conlangs, but they're suuuuper difficult to model So naturally I wrote this article in partnership with @fauna about how modelling conlangs gets much easier in NoSQL databases hashnode.com/post/conlangin…

@rts_rob Can’t wait for all the tweets about how Clippy is approaching general AI.

Today, we're so excited to announce the Fauna + @vercel console-level integration. Now it's easier than ever to associate a Fauna database with your Vercel applications - try it out! ow.ly/7AFe50FdEDh #serverless #nextjs #fullstack #frontend

@cabel The family computer had a built-in subwoofer.

Say you're 1990's Apple without saying you're 1990's Apple

@tylerhannan @jochiejean @WorkCycles I love the pic of you on their homepage! (Also that looks like a rad bike!)

so @jochiejean bought me the most thoughtful birthday gift. a new bike (fr8 cross frame) from @WorkCycles !!! When your fiets is your primary mode of transport...quality matters.

@wickman By the time you’re on handful 20, you’re eating a million skittles at once.

i always start eating a bag of skittles in conservation mode, one at a time. by skittle number five it's a couple at a time, but by the end it's half the bag all at once.

Announcing Cloudflare’s Database Partners. cfl.re/3dlYWmY #DeveloperWeek💻