The ScyllaDB Sync: June 2024

Welcome to the latest edition of the ScyllaDB Sync! Help us help you -- share your feedback (in the comments) about what you like, what you don't, and what else you would like to see here.

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Why Teams are Eliminating External Database Caches

Often-overlooked risks related to external caches — and how 3 teams are replacing their core database + external cache with a single solution: ScyllaDB.

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ScyllaDB as a DynamoDB Alternative: Frequently Asked Questions

A look at the top questions engineers are asking about moving from DynamoDB to ScyllaDB to reduce cost, avoid throttling, and avoid cloud vendor locking.

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Better “Goodput” Performance through C++ Exception Handling

Some very strange error reporting performance issues we uncovered while working on per-partition query rate limiting — and how we addressed it through C++ exception handling.

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ScyllaDB University Updates, High Availability Lab & NoSQL Training Events

There are many paths to adopting and mastering ScyllaDB, but the vast majority all share a visit to ScyllaDB University. Learn about recent changes to ScyllaDB University and some future ScyllaDB University live training events.

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ScyllaDB Internal Engineering Summit in Cyprus

ScyllaDB is a remote-first company. We’re good at it, and we love it. Still, each year we look forward to in-person company gatherings. This year, over 120 team members gathered in Limassol Cyprus for our annual Engineering Summit.

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Upcoming Events and Livestreams

ScyllaDB University LIVE

June 18, 2024 | 8:00am-11:30am PT | 16:00-19:30 BST

Instructor-led NoSQL database training sessions. Join us for a half day of FREE instructor-led training with exclusive new ScyllaDB database content.

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Get Started with ScyllaDB Virtual Workshop

June 20, 2024 | 8am ET | 2pm GMT

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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P99 CONF

October 23-24, 2024

Obsessed with P99 percentiles, low-latency engineering, and performance optimizations? Join your peers at P99 CONF: a free, highly-technical virtual conference for latency-obsessed engineers from around the world. The first round of speakers announced for P99 CONF 24 include:

• Michael Stonebraker, Postgres creator and MIT Professor
• Bryan Cantrill, Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer
• Avi Kivity, KVM creator, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO
• Liz Rice, Chief open source officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent
• Andy Pavlo, CMU professor and co-founder of Ottertune
• Ashley Williams, Axo founder/CEO, former Rust core team, Rust Foundation founder
• Carl Lerche, Tokio creator, Rust contributor, and Engineer at AWS

The conference will feature 60+ engineering talks on performance optimizations at Disney/Hulu, Shopify, Lyft, Uber, Netflix, Turo, American Express, Datadog, Grafana, LinkedIn, Google, Oracle, AWS, ScyllaDB, and more.

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User Perspectives

From Redis & Aurora to ScyllaDB, with 90% Lower Latency and $1M Savings

How SecurityScorecard built a scalable and resilient security ratings platform with ScyllaDB - -including how they decoupled the frontend and backend services by introducing a middle layer for improved scalability and maintainability.

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How ShareChat Performs Aggregations at Scale with Kafka + ScyllaDB

How ShareChat built a datastore that offers ultra-low latencies while remaining highly available, resilient, and scalable – using in-house Kafka streams and ScyllaDB.

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P99 CONF: Bun, Tokio, Turso Creators on Rust vs Zig

What transpired when Glauber Costa (Turso co-founder), Jarred Sumner (developer of Bun.js and CEO of Oven) and Carl Lerche (developer of Tokio and major Rust contributor) got together for an impromptu “coding for speed” panel at P99 CONF.

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Using Rust to Build a 100% ScyllaDB Shard-Aware Application

How Numberly designed an entire data processing application on ScyllaDB's low-level internal sharding using Rust. "Starting from what seemed like a crazy idea, our application design actually delivers amazing strengths like idempotence, distributed and predictable data processing with infinite scalability."

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WebAssembly: Putting Code and Data Where They Belong

How Wasm challenges the fundamental assumption that code runs on computers and data is stored in databases -- plus a casual Wasm chat among two aficionados.

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