Building serverless APIs - how Fauna and Workers make it easy

Slides from Cloudflare TV talk on 09 May 2022.

1. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 Building serverless APIs How Fauna and Cloudflare Workers make it easy Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
2. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 2 What you will learn • What are APIs at the edge? • What are good use cases? • What are less appropriate use cases? • What are the advantages? • What are the disadvantages? Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
3. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 3 Building data-driven APIs at the edge • Introduction • Authentication at the edge • Fauna here, Fauna there, Fauna everywhere • Solution overview • Q & A Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
4. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 4 Introduction Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
5. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 5 Who am I? • Head of DA at Fauna • Previous SaaS startup co-founder • Global active-active architecture • Mobile and web users Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
6. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 6 What are APIs at the edge? Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
7. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 7 What are APIs at the edge? Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
8. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 8 What are good use cases? Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
9. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 9 What are less appropriate use cases? Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
10. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 10 What are the advantages? Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
11. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 11 What are the disadvantages? Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
12. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 12 Authentication Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
13. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 13 Authentication at the backend Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
14. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 14 Authentication at the edge Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
15. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 15 Distributed protection Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
16. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 16 Fauna here, Fauna there, Fauna everywhere! Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
17. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 17 Fauna db.fauna.com Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
18. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 18 Fauna Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
19. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 19 Next-gen serverless Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
20. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 20 Next-gen serverless Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
21. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 21 Solution overview Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
22. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 22 A smart API layer over Fauna Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
23. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 23 A smart API layer over Fauna Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
24. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 24 Demo Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
25. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 25 Review • What are APIs at the edge? • What are good use cases? • What are less appropriate use cases? • What are the advantages? • What are the disadvantages? Rob Sutter - @rts_rob
26. Confidential © Fauna, Inc. 2020 26 Thank you! • References ◦ fauna.link/workers ◦ fauna.link/workers-repo ◦ fauna.link/calvin • Follow us: ◦ Twitter: @fauna ◦ YouTube: FaunaInc Rob Sutter - @rts_rob