The ScyllaDB Sync: December 2024
Welcome to the December edition of the ScyllaDB Sync. At ScyllaDB, we like to read/write books as well as data. This past month, we've featured two recent books quite prominently across our blogs and events:
We've also opened registration for Monster SCALE Summit, which is like P99 CONF with a focus on extreme-scale engineering and data-intensive applications. Take a look at the first wave of speakers we've revealed, and stay tuned for some huge announcements!
New on the Blog
Making Effective Partitions for ScyllaDB Data Modeling
Learn how to ensure your tables are perfectly partitioned to satisfy your queries – in this excerpt from Bo Ingram 's book “ScyllaDB in Action.”
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Database Internals: Optimizing Memory Management
ScyllaDB engineer Pavel Emelyanov shares how databases can get better performance by optimizing memory management in this excerpt from "Database Performance at Scale."
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Database Internals: Working with IO
ScyllaDB engineer Pavel Emelyanov explores the tradeoffs of different Linux I/O methods and explains how databases can take advantage of a modern SSD’s unique characteristics. This is another excerpt from "Database Performance at Scale."
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How We Updated ScyllaDB Drivers for Tablets Elasticity
Roy Dahan , ScyllaDB Director of Software Engineering, shares how the drivers’ query routing scheme has changed and why it’s now more beneficial than ever to use ScyllaDB drivers rather than Cassandra drivers.
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When ScyllaDB is Overkill vs. DynamoDB
ScyllaDB isn’t for everyone. In some cases, migrating from DynamoDB won’t reduce your costs at all. Felipe Cardeneti Mendes , Technical Director at ScyllaDB, explains.
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Community Perspectives
ScyllaDB implementation: Lists in Medium’s feature store
Medium engineer Andréas Saudemont shares how they're using ScyllaDB to build a fast and scalable data layer for lists in their feature store.
Performance: Adventures in Thread-per-Core Async with Redpanda and Seastar
Redpanda Data engineer John Spray describes his experience building high-performance systems with C++20 in an asynchronous runtime – including the challenges & tradeoffs in adopting a thread-per-core architecture.
Events
Webinar: Replacing Your Cache with ScyllaDB
December 18, 2024
Join this webinar for a technical discussion of the risks associated with using an external cache and a look at how ScyllaDB’s cache implementation simplifies your architecture without compromising latency.
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Monster SCALE Summit
Mar 11-12, 2025
Working on applications that require real-time responses at massive scale? Join thousands of your peers for 2 days of keynotes, technical sessions, hands-on labs, and community building.
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Trending this month
If you get a break from meetings later this month, it could be the perfect time to catch up on masterclasses. Our most popular ones – all with Felipe Cardeneti Mendes – include:
All the masterclasses have multiple sessions by different experts, then conclude with a panel. To give you an idea of what to expect, here's a look at one of those panels...