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title: "SurrealDB Stream #21: Contributors’ Guide to SurrealDB | Livestream | SurrealDB"
description: "Join Raphael Darley and Rushmore Mushambi as they dive into the structure of the SurrealDB codebase. They’ll consider how to Grok the codebase, how to contribute to SurrealDB and discuss open source in general. Raphael and Rushmore will answer your questions live throughout the stream.\n\nSurrealDB:\n🌍 SurrealDB Twitter: https://surrealdb.com/\n👉 SurrealDB GitHub: https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb\n🐦 SurrealDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/surrealdb\n👨‍💻 SurrealDB LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/surrealdb/\n👉 SurrealDB Discord: https://discord.com/invite/surrealdb\n📸 SurrealDB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/surrealdb\n👚 Shop the merch: https://surrealdb.store/\n\nWhat is SurrealDB?\nSurrealDB is an end-to-end cloud-native database designed for modern applications, including web, mobile, serverless, Jamstack, backend, and traditional applications. With SurrealDB, you can simplify your database and API infrastructure, reduce development time, and build secure, performant apps quickly and cost-effectively.\n\n👉 Get started with SurrealDB: https://sdb.li/getstarted\n\n\nKey features of SurrealDB:\n⭐ Reduces development time: SurrealDB simplifies your database and API stack by removing the need for most server-side components, allowing you to build secure, performant apps faster and cheaper.\n⭐ Real-time collaborative API backend service: SurrealDB functions as both a database and an API backend service, enabling real-time collaboration.\n⭐ Support for multiple querying languages: SurrealDB supports SQL querying from client devices, GraphQL, ACID transactions, WebSocket connections, structured and unstructured data, graph querying, full-text indexing, and geospatial querying.\n⭐ Granular access control: SurrealDB provides row-level permissions-based access control, giving you the ability to manage data access with precision."
url: https://surrealdb.com/events/NPGAmGJv7j0
---

Friday, March 29 at 5:00 AM GMT

Livestream

# SurrealDB Stream #21: Contributors’ Guide to SurrealDB

```
Join Raphael Darley and Rushmore Mushambi as they dive into the structure of the SurrealDB codebase. They’ll consider how to Grok the codebase, how to contribute to SurrealDB and discuss open source in general. Raphael and Rushmore will answer your questions live throughout the stream.

SurrealDB:
🌍 SurrealDB Twitter: https://surrealdb.com/
👉 SurrealDB GitHub: https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb
🐦 SurrealDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/surrealdb
👨‍💻 SurrealDB LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/surrealdb/
👉 SurrealDB Discord: https://discord.com/invite/surrealdb
📸 SurrealDB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/surrealdb
👚 Shop the merch: https://surrealdb.store/

What is SurrealDB?
SurrealDB is an end-to-end cloud-native database designed for modern applications, including web, mobile, serverless, Jamstack, backend, and traditional applications. With SurrealDB, you can simplify your database and API infrastructure, reduce development time, and build secure, performant apps quickly and cost-effectively.

👉 Get started with SurrealDB: https://sdb.li/getstarted

Key features of SurrealDB:
⭐ Reduces development time: SurrealDB simplifies your database and API stack by removing the need for most server-side components, allowing you to build secure, performant apps faster and cheaper.
⭐ Real-time collaborative API backend service: SurrealDB functions as both a database and an API backend service, enabling real-time collaboration.
⭐ Support for multiple querying languages: SurrealDB supports SQL querying from client devices, GraphQL, ACID transactions, WebSocket connections, structured and unstructured data, graph querying, full-text indexing, and geospatial querying.
⭐ Granular access control: SurrealDB provides row-level permissions-based access control, giving you the ability to manage data access with precision.
```

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