Cynthia Dunlop

Benchmarking for Performance Masterclass

Leading a High-Stakes Database Migration

New Ways to Reduce Database Costs with ScyllaDB

Understanding The True Cost of DynamoDB

Analyzing the impact of peaks, DAX, global tables, and other cost multipliers

ScyllaDB X Cloud: An Inside Look with Avi Kivity

Our Co-Founder/CTO discusses the design decisions behind ScyllaDB X Cloud’s elasticity and efficiency.

Rust Rewrite, Postgres Exit: Blitz Revamps Its “League of Legends” Backend

How Blitz scaled their game coaching app with lower latency and leaner operations

The Strategy Behind ReversingLabs’ Monster Scale Key-Value Migration

Migrating 300+ TB of data and 400+ services from a key-value database to ScyllaDB – with zero downtime

From Raw Performance to Price Performance: A Decade of Evolution at ScyllaDB

This is a guest post authored by tech journalist George Anadiotis. It’s a follow-up to articles that he published in 2023 and 2022.  In business, they say it takes ten years to become an overnight...

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