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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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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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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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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NoSQL Data Modeling Masterclass

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

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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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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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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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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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Critical Attributes for a High-Performance, Low-Latency Database

When low latency and high performance are core requirements, what NoSQL database attributes should you consider, and what tradeoffs are key?

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Cut Long-Tail Latencies with a New Approach to NoSQL

Learn about common causes of long-tail latency, the limitations of legacy NoSQL “scale out” approaches, and tactics for winning the battle for low long-tail latency in the real world.

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7 Essentials When Selecting a NoSQL Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)

7 key considerations that help teams tap the many benefits a DBaaS has to offer — without falling into some of the common traps.

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SQL to NoSQL: Architecture Differences and Considerations for Migration

Get an overview of SQL vs NoSQL architecture, learn tradeoffs between flexibility, scale & cost, as well as considerations for a successful SQL to NoSQL migration.

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Distributed Database Fundamentals Resources