The ScyllaDB Sync: February 2025

Welcome to the February edition of the ScyllaDB Sync. Expect lots of big updates this month -- particularly with Monster SCALE Summit. We'll be announcing the agenda quite soon, but we promise: you won't want to miss this (free + virtual) opportunity to connect with 20K of your peers and learn from industry leaders.

New on the ScyllaDB Blog

Inside Tripadvisor’s Real-Time Personalization with ScyllaDB + AWS

See the engineering behind real-time personalization at Tripadvisor’s massive (and rapidly growing) scale.

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How Supercell Handles Real-Time Persisted Events with ScyllaDB

How a team of just two engineers tackled real-time persisted events for hundreds of millions of players.

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How To Analyze ScyllaDB Cluster Capacity

Monitoring tips that can help reduce cluster size 2-5X without compromising latency in this guest post by Andrei Manakov .

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How to Build a High-Performance Shopping Cart App with ScyllaDB

With Attila Tóth as your guide, build a shopping cart app with ScyllaDB– and learn how to use ScyllaDB’s Change Data Capture (CDC) feature to query and export the history of all changes made to the tables.

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A Tiny Peek at Monster SCALE Summit 2025

Big things have been happening behind the scenes for the premier Monster SCALE Summit. Here’s a preview of 12 of the 60+ sessions that you can join on March 11 and 12…

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Caching for Performance Masterclass

Free Masterclass for reducing latency with caching

February 26 | 8:00am-11:00am PDT | 15:00-18:00 GMT

Designed for organizations with performance-sensitive applications, this masterclass shares pragmatic strategies for caching. We’ll explore a variety of caching options – how they’re architected, how that impacts their “sweet spot” and tradeoffs, as well as tips for working with them. Attendees will walk away with a framework they can apply to select and optimize the best caching options for various technical challenges.??

With your expert instructors – Alan Kasindorf (Memcached maintainer and Founder of Cache Forge) and Felipe Cardeneti Mendes (Technical Director at ScyllaDB and co-author of Database Performance at Scale) – you will learn how to:

• Decide among common caching approaches for reducing application latency
• Understand the architecture decisions behind different caching approaches and how that impacts performance
• Measure, monitor, and optimize the performance impact of your caching approach
• Spot and diagnose the manifestations of common caching mistakes

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Bonus: Read We Compared ScyllaDB and Memcached and… We Lost?

More Events

Get Started with ScyllaDB Virtual Workshop

February 12, 19, 26 | Select Your Time

Ready to try out ScyllaDB and want to make sure you’re “doing it right?” Learn what ScyllaDB is all about, the core concepts you need to know, and a step-by-step demonstration of how to get started.

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Webinar: Designing Low-Latency Systems with Rust and ScyllaDB

February 20 | 10am PT | 1pm ET | 6pm GMT

Want to learn practical tips for designing systems that can scale efficiently without compromising speed? Join us for a webinar where we’ll address these challenges head-on and explore how to architect low-latency systems using Rust.

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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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Monster SCALE Summit will go live in just a month! If you can't wait, here are a few gems from last year's conference...

The Strategy Behind ReversingLabs’ Massive Key-Value Migration

Martina Alilovic Rojnic shares how ReversingLabs recently completed the largest migration in their history: migrating more than 300 TB of data, more than 400 services, and data models from their internally-developed key-value database to ScyllaDB seamlessly, and with ZERO downtime.

Topology on Raft: An Inside Look

ScyllaDB's Konstantin Osipov shares how ScyllaDB is using Raft for all topology and schema metadata – and the impacts on elasticity, operability, and performance

CTO Insights: Steering a High-Stakes Database Migration

Kishore Krishnamurthy shared his perspective on Zee’s massive, business-critical database migration. His strategic leadership paid off in eliminating cloud vendor lockin and supporting rapid growth – with a 5X cost reduction.

Getting the Most Out of ScyllaDB Monitoring: ShareChat’s Tips

This practical talk by one of our most impressive power users shares how ShareChat works with non-standard ScyllaDB metrics to analyze the remaining cluster capacity, debug performance problems, and more.