Distributed Database Essentials Resources

Designing Data-Intensive Applications [O'Reilly Book]

Discover new ways of thinking about your distributed data system challenges. Download Martin Kleppmann's practical and comprehensive guide for data-intensive applications.

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Database Performance at Scale: A Practical Guide

Discover new ways to optimize database performance – and avoid common pitfalls – in this 270 page book

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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

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ScyllaDB In Action: By Bo Ingram [Discord]

ScyllaDB in Action -- by Discord's Bo Ingram -- is a practical guide to everything you need to know about ScyllaDB, from your very first queries to running it in a production environment.

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NoSQL Database Migration Masterclass

Designed for organizations planning or considering a NoSQL migration, this masterclass will assist practitioners looking to understand database migration strategies, logistics, and tools.

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NoSQL Data Modeling Masterclass

Learn real-world strategies for fast, scalable NoSQL data models in this free + interactive masterclass.

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Workshop: Build Low-Latency Applications in Rust

Go hands-on to explore the affinities between Rust, the Tokio framework, and ScyllaDB. You’ll go live with our sample Rust application, built on our new, high performance native Rust client driver.

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Database-as-a-Service in the Real World: Risks, Rewards & Tradeoffs

Discover the reality of working with various high-performance DBaaS offerings: Developer flexibility, Cost variability, Security, Performance, Transparency & Troubleshooting

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Dissecting Real-World Database Performance Dilemmas

Tune in as we dissect 4 specific database performance challenges faced by teams considering or using ScyllaDB

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Database Performance at Scale Masterclass

Discover new ways to optimize database performance – and avoid common pitfalls. Join “Database Performance at Scale” book authors for an interactive masterclass. Attendees get a free book!

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Overcoming Database Scaling Challenges with a New Approach to NoSQL

Practical tips and lessons learned from a variety of real-world DB scaling scenarios that involve databases such as ScyllaDB, PostgreSQL, Cassandra & DynamoDB.

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Distributed Data Systems Masterclass

Learn how to build and manage enterprise-scale distributed data systems with the latest event streaming and distributed database technologies.

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ScyllaDB: Proven Practices & Pitfalls for NoSQL at Scale

Discover what’s most important for achieving low latency at extreme scale. We'll walk you through the strategies and pitfalls learned from thousands of real-world distributed database projects.

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7 Reasons Not to Put an External Cache in Front of Your Database

Discover the common pitfalls of using external caching and get real-world examples of companies that successfully eliminated their external cache.

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Wide Column Store NoSQL vs SQL Data Modeling

Explore the core concepts of wide column NoSQL schema design, using ScyllaDB as an example to demonstrate the tradeoffs and rationale.

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Database Trend Report: NoSQL Expectation vs Reality

Research on how the reality of working with relational and various NoSQL database types compared to the team's original expectations.

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High-Performance NoSQL Masterclass

Learn best practices for highly scalable, high performance NoSQL in this on-demand masterclass.

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High-Performance NoSQL Strategies at India's Top Social Media Platform

How ShareChat achieved 5X NoSQL performance w/ 80% cost savings – offering microsecond P99 latency with 1.2M op/sec for 180M monthly active users.

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Transforming the Database: Critical Innovations for Performance at Scale

Take a technical deep dive into database innovations critical for speed at scale (e.g., millions of read/write operations and millisecond P99 response).

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Overcoming Media Streaming Challenges with NoSQL

Learn about the core challenges faced in media streaming NoSQL use cases, along with different options for addressing them.

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Distributed Database Fundamentals Resources