Source: thenewstack.io
The Future of Data in Serverless Will Be API-DrivenCategory: Database, Data, Kubernetes, android
In the serverless paradigm, the idea is to abstract away the backend so that developers don’t need to deal with it. The assumption has been that developers will build their serverless app and choose a separate database system to connect to it — be it a traditional relational database, a NoSQL system, or even a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS).
Fauna and Cloudflare are taking different approaches to data on serverless, but both are pushing the boundaries of what a database is in the cloud native era. Weaver pointed out that serverless is just the modern version of a 1990s paradigm, where “the idea [is] that you can consume your infrastructure without having to do any operational work.” What Fauna is doing is adding database operations to the list of things being abstracted away in serverless.
Fauna and Cloudflare are taking different approaches to data on serverless, but both are pushing the boundaries of what a database is in the cloud native era. Weaver pointed out that serverless is just the modern version of a 1990s paradigm, where “the idea [is] that you can consume your infrastructure without having to do any operational work.” What Fauna is doing is adding database operations to the list of things being abstracted away in serverless.
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