Case Study: VoiceConnect achieves real-time, scalable Alexa crypto tracking with Fauna

Cryptocurrency trading information with a voice interface, powered by FaunaDB

VoiceConnect, an early-stage startup founded by Deepak Rao and Vijay Duraipalam, built the CryptoTracker Alexa skill to bring cryptocurrency information to voice users. They needed a serverless-friendly database that worked with AWS Lambda, offered pay-as-you-go pricing, high performance and reliability, and could scale without heavy provisioning—requirements that led them to evaluate and ultimately choose Fauna’s FaunaDB Cloud.

Fauna delivered FaunaDB Cloud as a serverless, pay-as-you-go database service with a Python interface and elastic scalability, enabling VoiceConnect to launch CryptoTracker quickly and cost-effectively. The result is a live Alexa skill providing real-time price, volume, market cap and exchange data for more than 500 cryptocurrencies and ICOs, faster time-to-market without upfront infrastructure costs, and the ability for VoiceConnect to develop additional Alexa applications on Fauna.

VoiceConnect

Vijay Duraipalam

Co-Founder