SurrealDB Stream #1 with co-founders Tobie & Jaime Morgan Hitchcock

Learn about SurrealDB's origin story, plus plans for the future and a live Q&A. The stream includes introductions to new SurrealDB team members Rushmore Mushambi and Hugh Kaznowski with Lizzie Holmes and a live demo from our Discord community member Micha de Vries.

00:00:04 Intro
00:03:23 How SurrealDB Started
00:07:26 Startup Investment
00:09:50 Thank You!
00:11:46 Why SurrealDB?
00:13:15 Challenges
00:14:38 SurrealDB People
00:15:12 Plans for Commercial Viability
00:19:05 Rust Community Chat
00:21:32 Live Queries
00:22:43 Experiences at SurrealDB
00:25:30 Documentation
00:26:26 Version 1.0 Benchmarks
00:27:55 Security
00:29:45 The Cloud & Future Plans
00:32:29 Micha De Vries
00:34:48 Writing an App without a Backend Layer
00:36:24 Handling Image & Large Document Uploads with SurrealDB
00:38:42 Hosting SurrealDB
00:43:12 Sharding in SurrealDB
00:44:22 Indexing
00:45:12 SurrealDB Swag Store
00:47:27 Cloud Server
00:51:31 Cloud Terms of Service
00:52:19 Convincing Colleagues to use SurrealDB
00:55:34 Javascript Runtime
00:57:12 SurrealDB Surprises

SurrealDB:
🌍 SurrealDB Website: 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.