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type: podcast
authors:
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  - brittney-postma
episode: 5
guests:
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recording_date: December 10, 2021 1:30 PM
season: 2
published: published
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devto: https://dev.to/codercatdev/25-scaling-transactional-data-globally-with-fauna-dk3
excerpt: We sit down with Rob Sutter to talk all about his history as a developer advocate and Fauna. Fauna is a flexible, developer-friendly, transactional database delivered as a secure and scalable cloud API with native GraphQL.
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sponsors:
  - builder-io
start: February 2, 2022
title: Scaling Transactional Data Globally with Fauna
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wjpyBmeYG4
---

## Questions

1. How did you get started as a Developer Advocate?
2. Why was Fauna created, ex-Twitter devs?
3. How does Fauna differ form Firestore, Dynamo, or Supabase?
4. Can you explain what global transactional capability means?
5. What are the drawbacks to transactional consistency?
6. Is this similar to the Blockchain?
7. What is Fauna primarily used for?
8. Demo of FaunaDB
9. Fauna for GraphQL Developers - [https://graphql.workshops.fauna.com/](https://graphql.workshops.fauna.com/)
10. Is the workshop free?

## Additional Links

- [https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/f502dr/eventual_consistency_in_comicstrip_form/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/f502dr/eventual_consistency_in_comicstrip_form/)
- [https://status.fauna.com/](https://status.fauna.com/)
- Workshop - [https://graphql.workshops.fauna.com/](https://graphql.workshops.fauna.com/)
- Fauna with SvelteKit - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaoLZc76uZM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaoLZc76uZM)
- Fauna vs.
  - [MongoDB](https://fauna.com/blog/comparing-fauna-and-mongodb)
  - [DynamoDB](https://fauna.com/blog/compare-fauna-vs-dynamodb)
  - [Aurora Serverless](https://fauna.com/blog/compare-aws-aurora-serverless-v2-architecture-features-pricing-vs-fauna)
  - [Postgres](https://fauna.com/blog/compare-fauna-vs-postgres)
