---
title: "How to simplify your tech stack"
description: "Oscar Merry talks about powering a social podcasting app, Fountain, using SurrealDB."
url: https://surrealdb.com/blog/how-to-simplify-your-tech-stack
date: 2024-03-17
authors: "Guest author"
---

# How to simplify your tech stack

![How to simplify your tech stack](https://cdn.surrealdb.com/co0if8361icc73eeql4g.auto)

Oscar Merry talks about powering a social podcasting app, Fountain, using SurrealDB. He discusses how he was able to simplify his tech stack, replacing Neo4j and MeiliSearch with SurrealDB to power querying and full-text search across the app.

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This is part of our SurrealDB social events series, filmed live in London, where we discuss the latest updates, releases and features of SurrealDB.