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How to use DataStax Serverless Database with Netlify Serverless Functions (video)

In this video I show you how to use a Serverless Database and Serverless Functions in your next project. We will be using DataStax Astra Cassandra-as-a-service to do this. Cassandra is used by all the major players such as Netflix, Apple, Ebay and so many more. The only prerequisite for this tutorial is a knowledge of React.

Content:
00:00: Introduction
02:04: Signing up to our Serverless Database
04:17: Creating our React App
06:43: Using Netlify Serverless Functions
13:16: Using the astrajs/collection package to communicate with our database

For this video, we will be using this documentation here: https://docs.datastax.com/en/astra/docs/astra-collection-client.html

Final + tidied code:
https://github.com/kubowania/serverless-database


Other links:
In this video I use Tabnine as my A.I autocompletion tool. You can download it for free here: http://bit.ly/tabnine-free

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