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Date Published
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Chris Anderson
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363
Language
English
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Summary

Fauna has announced that Dr. Andy Pavlo, an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, has joined as a technical advisor. Dr. Pavlo's expertise in database query processing systems will play a crucial role in Fauna's development, particularly in leveraging the Calvin protocol for globally replicated ACID transactions. The company aims to deliver a robust and correct database that serves different developer needs without sacrificing correctness, scale, and reliability. Fauna has been recognized for its strict-serializability, making it suitable for mission-critical workloads such as financial ledgers and customer identity management. Dr. Pavlo's collaboration with Fauna is expected to drive innovation at the database interface layer.