This video is a talk from Byteconf GraphQL 2020, a free, live-streamed GraphQL conference that aired on January 31st, 2020. Visit our website to sign up for the Byteconf GraphQL "swag bag", a free downloadable resource with everything you need to get started with GraphQL, as well as info about future Byteconf events!

Accessing and working with data is not easy with serverless, because traditional methods of database access don't work well. In this talk, I will discuss the key problems around working with databases when building serverless application logic and approaches to solving them. I will motivate problems like connection pooling, cold-starts, handling spiky concurrent loads, database transactions and transient failures. I will then present GraphQL as a possible solution for building a high-performance data API that can scale to serverless workloads. I will talk about the pros & cons of this approach. Finally, I will do some live code demos and make the problems and solutions discussed previously more concrete!

Thanks to Tanmai Gopal, who presented this talk at Byteconf GraphQL 2020!

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