Scale By The Bay 2020: Brecht De Rooms, How Micro-Service Patterns Change When the Database Scalable

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Title: How Micro-Service Patterns Change When the Database Is a Scalable API There are multiple reasons to adopt microservices but often the initial goal is to scale processing and eliminate database bottlenecks. When we talk about data management, there are several strategies/patterns to implement a data layer for microservice architectures. In this talk, we explore how those patterns change if the database is a scalable API that maintains global consistency. Brecht De Rooms Fauna Senior Developer Advocate Brecht De Rooms is a senior developer advocate at Fauna. He is a programmer who has worked extensively in IT as a full-stack developer and researcher in both the startup and IT consultancy worlds. It is his mission to shed light on emerging and powerful technologies that make it easier for developers to build apps and services that will captivate users.