--- title: "SurrealDB Stream #1 with co-founders Tobie & Jaime Morgan Hitchcock | Livestream | SurrealDB" description: "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.\n\n00:00:04 Intro\n00:03:23 How SurrealDB Started\n00:07:26 Startup Investment\n00:09:50 Thank You!\n00:11:46 Why SurrealDB?\n00:13:15 Challenges\n00:14:38 SurrealDB People\n00:15:12 Plans for Commercial Viability\n00:19:05 Rust Community Chat\n00:21:32 Live Queries\n00:22:43 Experiences at SurrealDB\n00:25:30 Documentation\n00:26:26 Version 1.0 Benchmarks\n00:27:55 Security\n00:29:45 The Cloud & Future Plans\n00:32:29 Micha De Vries\n00:34:48 Writing an App without a Backend Layer\n00:36:24 Handling Image & Large Document Uploads with SurrealDB\n00:38:42 Hosting SurrealDB\n00:43:12 Sharding in SurrealDB\n00:44:22 Indexing\n00:45:12 SurrealDB Swag Store\n00:47:27 Cloud Server\n00:51:31 Cloud Terms of Service\n00:52:19 Convincing Colleagues to use SurrealDB\n00:55:34 Javascript Runtime\n00:57:12 SurrealDB Surprises\n\nSurrealDB:\nšŸŒ SurrealDB Website: https://surrealdb.com/\nšŸ‘‰ SurrealDB GitHub: https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb\nšŸ¦ SurrealDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/surrealdb\nšŸ‘Øā€šŸ’» SurrealDB LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/surrealdb/\nšŸ‘‰ SurrealDB Discord: https://discord.com/invite/surrealdb\nšŸ“ø SurrealDB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/surrealdb\nšŸ‘š 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\nšŸ‘‰ Get started with SurrealDB: https://sdb.li/getstarted\n\nKey features of SurrealDB:\nā­ 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.\nā­ Real-time collaborative API backend service: SurrealDB functions as both a database and an API backend service, enabling real-time collaboration.\nā­ 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.\nā­ 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/qDayG5ZNb1A --- Thursday, January 1 at 1:00 AM GMT+1 Livestream # 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: šŸŒ SurrealDB Website: https://surrealdb.com/ šŸ‘‰ SurrealDB GitHub: https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb šŸ¦ SurrealDB Twitter: https://twitter.com/surrealdb šŸ‘Øā€šŸ’» SurrealDB LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/surrealdb/ šŸ‘‰ SurrealDB Discord: https://discord.com/invite/surrealdb šŸ“ø SurrealDB Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/surrealdb šŸ‘š 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. šŸ‘‰ Get started with SurrealDB: https://sdb.li/getstarted Key features of SurrealDB: ā­ 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. ā­ Real-time collaborative API backend service: SurrealDB functions as both a database and an API backend service, enabling real-time collaboration. ā­ 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. ā­ Granular access control: SurrealDB provides row-level permissions-based access control, giving you the ability to manage data access with precision. ``` Share ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"SurrealDB Stream #1 with co-founders Tobie \u0026 Jaime Morgan Hitchcock","description":"Learn about SurrealDB's origin story, plus plans for the future and a live Q\u0026A. 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