Kirk Kirkconnell articles - 21 total
Simplify serverless scaling and data management with Fauna and Cloudflare Workers
In a world where we demand speed, flexibility, and seamless scalability, serverless architecture has...
Overcoming MongoDB Limitations with Fauna
Developers are constantly seeking solutions that offer simplicity, scalability, and reliability. For...
Five DynamoDB limitations you should know before using it
Amazon DynamoDB is a NoSQL database known for its scalability, but it comes with several limitations...
Introduction to serverless databases
Serverless computing allows developers to build and run applications without managing or worrying...
Am I already getting AI fatigue?
While I use and like many things being done with AI these days, I also find it a bit overwhelming in...
Flexibility Meets Structure: Evolving Document Database Schemas with Fauna
The debate over utilizing a more strict schema definition and enforcement versus going schemaless...
What’s the difference between RBAC and ABAC in Fauna?
ABAC (Attribute-Based Access Control) is not an extension of RBAC (Role-Based Access Control), but...
Decoding Fauna: ABAC vs. RBAC Explained
ABAC (Attribute-Based Access Control) is not so much an extension of RBAC (Role-Based Access...
Multi-region, strongly consistent databases matter
Having a multi-region database that offers strong consistency is a big deal in the realm of...
Simple deletes in Fauna Query Language - (FQL)
Now that you have written some data and updated some data in Fauna, in this how to let's delete some...
How to do simple updates in Fauna Query Language (FQL)
Now that we have written some data to the database, let’s look at updating existing data. In the...
How to do simple writes and bulk writes in Fauna Query Language (FQL)
Write operations come in a few flavors and here we will be talking about two of them. Writing new...
Fauna functions: Server-side database functions
The move from traditional RDBMS to NoSQL databases brought many advantages but also led to losing...
Designing for cloud redundancy is more than just application-level
I saw this posted on LinkedIn and wrote up an answer to contribute, but there is more to this topic...
What is a vector index?
Learn the basics of what a vector index is and what it can do to accelerate and improve your apps.
What are vector embeddings?
An embedding is a representation of an object (words, sentences, images, etc.) summarized as an array...
Adding chat functionality to your games and apps
Chat is one of those things that many need and should be simple, but developers keep reinventing the...
AWS Lambda event filtering for Amazon DynamoDB Streams
On 26 Nov 2021, AWS released Lambda event filtering with Amazon DynamoDB as an event source. Some...
AWS IAM managed policies for Amazon DynamoDB
For application access, please do not use the AWS provided managed IAM policies for Amazon DynamoDB,...
AWS IAM managed policies for Amazon DynamoDB
For application access, you should not use the managed AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)...
Identify items in an Amazon DynamoDB table that haven't been accessed and move them to Amazon S3.
Question: How to identify items in an Amazon DynamoDB table that haven't been accessed for a time and...