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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

“Serverless” Databases

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Technology, News, Tech News

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about your options for database when you’re working with serverless. Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 00:25 Welcome 00:51 Sponsor: LogRocket 01:44 Sponsor: Prismic 03:17 Why Serverless and related databases? 07:45 Deploying on Deno Deno 08:44 Using a database with serverless functions Syntax 542 - Serverless Limitations 11:53 Using purpose built databases Planetscale Supabase Cloudflare D1 Cloudflare Key Value Store AWS DynamoDB AWS Auroa FaunaDB Neon Railway MongoDB Serverless Redis Cassandra 15:01 The results of the test 17:35 Solutions Tweet us your tasty treats Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready to stuff your face with

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JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflows! Break dancing! Soft skills!

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Web development! The hastiest! The Carrazius! The tastiest! Web development

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treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes Barakuda! Boss and Scott El Torro Lugo!

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Tolinsky!

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Welcome to syntax on this Monday hasty treat. We're going to be talking about serverless databases.

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You know, when you get into serverless anything, one of the questions that always comes up is

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what about databases? So we're going to be answering that question for you and quite a bit more today.

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This episode is sponsored by two amazing companies today, Prismic and Log Rocket.

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Log Rocket is an incredible service to really get visibility in how people are using your thing,

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as in what Log Rocket gives you as a set of replay tools that allow you to understand conversion,

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allow you to understand what users are doing, user behavior, but also understand where there are issues.

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In fact, you can get access to a scrubable video replay to solve bugs that gives you then access to

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the network tab, air log, and all that and more. You can also increase your conversion and optimize

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your adoption by understanding exactly why users are leaving at various points in your funnel.

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Now there's also user experience analytics, front-end performance monitoring, and so much more.

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So head on over to logrocket.com forward slash syntax and you'll get 14 days for free.

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We are also sponsored by Prismic. They are a headless CMS that provides, like obviously they have the API

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and all that really good stuff, but they have the fantastic tooling around building your website.

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They encourage you to think of your website as a slice machine, which is essentially every little component

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that you have, make an associated input in Prismic with that, and then you're marketing people,

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your lawyers, and people that are running the website, you yourself can go ahead and edit that content.

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