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Persistence is a vital part of application development, and although NoSQL is all the rage nowadays, relational databases still have their place. In fact, many application use cases would be supported just fine with a simple relational database. Hi, I'm James. In this video, you'll learn how to add persistence to your Cloudflare applications using the D1 database service that Cloudflare provides. 00:00Introduction to Data Persistence 00:56The Importance of Relational Databases 01:24Introducing Cloudflare's D1 Database Service 01:46Setting Up D1 Database with Cloudflare Workers 03:04Local Development with D1 Database 05:31Accessing and Using D1 Database in Code 08:11Database Migrations with Wrangler CLI 10:08Smart Placement and Global Distribution 12:44Time Travel Feature in D1 Database 13:32Conclusion and Recommendations Building D1 - https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-d1-a-global-database/ Turning D1 up to 11 - https://blog.cloudflare.com/d1-turning-it-up-to-11/ GitHub Repo - https://github.com/jeastham1993/serverless-cloudflare Workers RS - https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-rs Links Twitter - https://twitter.com/plantpowerjames LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-eastham Website - https://jameseastham.co.uk