Cynthia Dunlop

Why ScyllaDB’s Shard Per Core Architecture Matters

3 perspectives on what shard-per-core involves and why it matters for teams who care about database performance. Also ...  puppies!

Using ScyllaDB for Extreme Scale Workloads

Elasticity, Speed & Simplicity: Get the Most From New ScyllaDB Capabilities

What users need to know about tablets and Raft...at a purely pragmatic level

DynamoDB Cost Optimization Masterclass

Learn pragmatic strategies for optimizing DynamoDB costs as you grow. It also presents alternatives to consider when you’ve hit your limit with AWS (e.g., due to costs, multicloud initiatives, ...)

ScyllaDB Elasticity: Demo, Theory, and Future Plans

Watch a demo of how ScyllaDB's Raft and tablets initiatives play out with real operations on a real ScyllaDB cluster -- and get a glimpse at what’s next on our roadmap.

Using ScyllaDB for Real-Time Read-Heavy Workloads

Explore the technical challenges of real-time read-heavy workloads (recommendation, personalization, chat, gaming...) and learn best practices for working with them in ScyllaDB.

Using ScyllaDB for Real-Time Write-Heavy Workloads

Explore the technical challenges of real-time write-heavy workloads (IoT, logging systems, real-time analytics, and order processing) and learn best practices for working with them in ScyllaDB.

How Freshworks Cut Database P99 Latency by 95% – with Lower Costs

How Freshworks tackled high tail latencies, Cassandra admin burden, and any little surge causing an increase in timeouts

ScyllaDB Fast Forward: True Elastic Scale

Learn how our new tablets architecture enables new levels of elasticity, speed, simplicity, and efficiency -- dynamically redistributing data as the workload and topology evolve.

Event-Driven Architectures Masterclass

Learn how to build high-performance systems for real-time data streaming with Rust, ScyllaDB, and Redpanda

Optimizing NoSQL Performance Through Observability

Learn practical tips for discovering and overcoming performance issues like hot partitions

Developer Data Modeling Mistakes: From Postgres to NoSQL

See where our experienced Postgres developer intuitively falls into traps that hurt performance and scalability -- and learn what to do instead.

What Developers Need to Unlearn for High-Performance NoSQL

See where an RDBMS-pro’s intuition leads him astray – and learn practical tips for the transition to NoSQL

Steering ZEE5’s Migration to ScyllaDB

Eliminating cloud vendor lockin and supporting rapid growth – with a 5X cost reduction Kishore Krishnamurthy, CTO at ZEE5, recently shared his perspective on Zee’s massive, business-critical...

Avi Kivity and Dor Laor AMA: “Tablets” replication, all things async, caching, object storage & more

Dor Laor and Avi Kivity discuss the new tablets replication algorithm (replacing Vnodes), ScyllaDB’s async shard-per-core architecture, strategies for tapping object storage with S3, the CDC...

Cloud Database Rewards, Risks & Tradeoffs

Considering a fully-managed cloud database? Consider the top rewards, risks, and trade-offs related to performance and cost.

A Benchmark of the DBaaS Market

A new way to compare cloud database-as-a-service options across the rapidly-evolving product landscape.

Elasticity vs. State? A New Kafka Streams State Store

https://www.scylladb.com/presentations/elasticity-vs-state-exploring-kafka-streams-cassandra-state-store/

Cost-Efficient Stream Processing with RisingWave and ScyllaDB

A technical look at how to achieve cost-efficient stream processing with ScyllaDB and RisingWave, an open-source distributed streaming database.

Real-Time Event Processing with CDC

Learn how ScyllaDB’s CDC can be used to enable Real-time Event Processing Systems and explore a wide range of options for getting started with it.