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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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What is ScyllaDB NoSQL?

ScyllaDB is the monstrously fast and scalable NoSQL database for data-intensive apps that require high performance and low latency.

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Tutorial: Running ScyllaDB at 1M Operations per Second

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What Makes ScyllaDB So Fast?

ScyllaDB is a monstrously fast and scalable distributed NoSQL database designed for high throughput and low latency at scale. But what makes ScyllaDB so fast?

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A Deep Dive into ScyllaDB’s Architecture

Take a technical deep dive into ScyllaDB's architecture and discover the "secret sauce" behind our high availability and superior performance.

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7 Design Principles Behind ScyllaDB

Learn why and how ScyllaDB took a radically different approach to the foundational architectural choices behind other NoSQL databases.

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ScyllaDB Virtual Workshop

Ready to try out ScyllaDB and want to make sure you’re “doing it right?” We’ll help you get up and running, fast. Join our architects for a one-hour crash course.

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Quantifying the Performance Impact of Shard-per-core Architecture

Most software isn’t architected to take advantage of modern hardware. How does a shard-per-code and shared-nothing architecture help – and exactly what impact can it make?

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Exploring ScyllaDB's Architecture and Engineering Optimizations

Learn all about ScyllaDB's database internals, from the perspective of ScyllaDB Solution Architect Felipe Cardeneti Mendes. Chapters: 0:00 ScyllaDB internals with Felipe Mendes 07:51 Write Path - AP

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Introducing “Database Performance at Scale”: A Free, Open Source Book

Discover new ways to optimize database performance and avoid common mistakes that impact latency and throughput.

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Under the Hood of ScyllaDB's Shard-per-Core Architecture

Learn how ScyllaDB's shard-per-core architecture takes full advantage of modern infrastructure and networking capabilities.

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What ScyllaDB Looks Like from a Disk’s Perspective

ScyllaDB’s CTO Avi Kivity's journey into what ScyllaDB workloads look like from the perspective of a fast NVMe SSD — like the NVMe-based Nitro SSDs featured in new AWS EC2 I4i instances.

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P99 Pursuit: 8 Years of Battling P99 Latency at ScyllaDB

Dor Laor on how ScyllaDB has been battling P99 latency while building an “all-weather, all-terrain, high throughput, low latency database.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Book Excerpt: ScyllaDB, a Different Database

What's so distinctive about ScyllaDB? Read what Bo Ingram (Staff Engineer at Discord) has to say – in this excerpt from the book "ScyllaDB in Action."

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