Exploring Database Connectivity in Serverless Environments

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about your options for database when you’re working with serverless.

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• 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

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