Cynthia Dunlop

Why Teams Are Ditching DynamoDB

Teams sometimes need lower latency, lower costs (especially as they scale) or the ability to run their applications somewhere other than AWS

How to Reduce DynamoDB Costs: Expert Tips from Alex DeBrie

DynamoDB consultant Alex DeBrie shares where teams tend to get into trouble

How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages: Scaling Search Infrastructure

This talk shares how Discord scaled their message search infrastructure using Rust, Kubernetes, and a multi-cluster Elasticsearch architecture to achieve better performance, operability, and reliabili

Designing Data-Intensive Applications in 2025

Join Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini for a chat on the evolution of *Designing Data-Intensive Applications*. They’ll discuss key tradeoffs in modern data systems, what’s next for data-intensive a

How Discord Performs Database Upgrades at Scale

Discord relies on ScyllaDB to serve millions of reads per second across many clusters, so they needed a comprehensive strategy to sufficiently de-risk upgrades to avoid impact to our users. To accompl

Migrating 50TB Data From a Home-Grown Database to ScyllaDB, Fast

Terence share how Clearview AI's infra needs evolved and why they chose ScyllaDB after first-principles research. From fast ingestion to production queries, the talk explores their journey with Rust,

Overcome Redis Cluster Scale Bottlenecks with ScyllaDB & EloqKV

Introducing EloqKV—a new project built on ScyllaDB! It delivers sub-millisecond read/write performance, full transactions, and a Redis-compatible API, acting as a fast, consistent cache. Scale beyond

High Availability: Lessons Learned

How does ScyllaDB keep your data safe, and your mission critical applications running smoothly, even in the face of disaster? In this talk we’ll discuss what we have learned about High Availability, h

Deploying ScyllaDB as an On-Premise Replacement to DynamoDB

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences needed to move an AWS-based app on-prem for compliance. To replace DynamoDB, they chose ScyllaDB—enabling a seamless switch with no code changes using the AWS Java SDK. T

Using ScyllaDB to Implement Lists in Medium’s Feature Store

Discover how Medium is leveraging ScyllaDB to power a fast, scalable data layer for lists in Medium’s feature store.

How Agoda Scaled 50x Throughput with ScyllaDB

How Natura Uses ScyllaDB and ScyllaDB Connector to Create a Real-time Data Pipeline

Natura, a top global cosmetics brand with 3M+ beauty consultants in Latin America, processes massive data for orders, campaigns, and analytics. In this talk, Rodrigo Luchini & Marcus Monteiro share ho

Efficient Deduplication in RecSys at Scale: How We Managed to Reduce Server Cost by 90%

Efficient deduplication is key to delivering relevant recommendations at scale. Andrei shares how they optimized for 300M+ users, cutting costs by 90% while reducing latency. He covers how ScyllaDB, A

Database Migration Strategies and Pitfalls

Jump start your migration to ScyllaDB! In this talk, we will discuss how to migrate from Cassandra, DynamoDB, as well as other sources. Review tooling available to assist with Scylla Migrations. Revie

Workload Prioritization: How to Balance Multiple Workloads in a Cluster

Workload Prioritization is a ScyllaDB exclusive feature for controlling how different workloads compete for system resources. It's used to prioritize urgent application requests that require immediate

Replacing RocksDB with ScyllaDB in Kafka Streams

Learn how Responsive replaced embedded RocksDB with ScyllaDB in Kafka Streams, simplifying the architecture and unlocking massive availability and scale. The talk covers unbundling stream processors,

Feature Store Evolution Under Cost Constraints: When Cost is Part of the Architecture

Inside Freshworks’ Migration from Cassandra to ScyllaDB

Freshworks migrated from Cassandra to ScyllaDB to handle growing audit log data efficiently. Cassandra required frequent scaling, complex repairs, and had non-linear scaling. ScyllaDB reduced costs wi

Exploring ScyllaDB’s DynamoDB-Compatible API

In this talk we inspect how ScyllaDB implemented Alternator, the DynamoDB-compatible API. We review internal table structure, load balancing and deployment characteristics. We also inspect an existing

ScyllaDB's Architecture for Extreme Scale

CTO Avi Kivity shares how scalability is core to ScyllaDB’s architecture.