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Jan 14, 2025 | 
scylladb.com | Cynthia Dunlop
How a team of just two engineers tackled real-time persisted events for hundreds of millions of playersWith just two engineers, Supercell took on the daunting task of growing their basic account system into a social platform connecting hundreds of millions of gamers. Account management, friend requests, cross-game promotions, chat, player presence tracking, and team formation – all of this had to work across their five major games.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
scylladb.com | Cynthia Dunlop
3 perspectives on what shard-per-core involves and why it matters for teams who care about database performance. Also … puppies!ScyllaDB is best known for 3 things: 1) Predictable database performance at scale 2) A shard-per-core architecture 3) Cute sea monstersThe monster’s cuteness speaks for itself – especially if you’ve seen the plushie version.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
scylladb.com | Cynthia Dunlop
Obsessed with high-performance low-latency data systems? See the 20+ data-related tech talks sessions we’re hosting at P99 CONF 2024. P99 CONF is a (free + online) highly-technical conference for engineers who obsess over P99 percentiles and long-tail latencies. The open source, community-focused event is hosted by ScyllaDB, the company behind the monstrously fast and scalable NoSQL database (and the adorable one-eyed sea monster).
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Cynthia Dunlop
P99 CONF is a free virtual conference that’s all about performance. Thousands of latency-obsessed engineers from around the world come together for P99 CONF each year. It’s purely technical, intentionally virtual, highly interactive and open source-focused.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Cynthia Dunlop |Patrick McFadin |Darryl Taft |David Brooks
At last year’s P99 CONF, one of the most popular talks was about how moving data closer to your users can save hundreds of milliseconds in latency “even if your code sucks.” But sometimes, when you’re working on ultra-low-latency applications where every millisecond matters, every element must be designed for performance — from the code itself, to the language it’s written in, to the infrastructure it’s running on and everything it interacts with.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Cynthia Dunlop |Agam Shah |Brian Godsey |Rob Whiteley
When Google’s Database Black Belt leader talks, people pay attention. Kerry Osborne’s P99 CONF 2023 talk, “How to Improve Your Ability to Solve Complex Performance Problems,” is still getting considerable attention even months later. In a conference that typically features 15-to-20-minute TED Talk-like sessions, Kerry’s came in at just over 40 minutes. But even that wasn’t enough. Kerry has much more expertise to share, and the P99 CONF community is eager to hear it.
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
scylladb.com | Cynthia Dunlop
How Freshworks tackled high tail latencies, Cassandra admin burden, and any little surge causing an increase in timeoutsFreshworks creates AI-boosted business software that is purpose-built for IT, customer support, sales, and marketing teams to work more efficiently. Given their scale, managing petabytes of data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was a challenge.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Cynthia Dunlop |Jonathan Siddharth |Brian Wald |David Cassel
The demand for low-latency machine learning feature stores is higher than ever, but actually implementing one at scale remains a challenge. That became clear when ShareChat engineers Ivan Burmistrov and Andrei Manakov took the P99 CONF 23 stage to share how they built a low-latency ML feature store based on ScyllaDB. This isn’t a tidy case study where adopting a new product saves the day.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Cynthia Dunlop |Loraine Lawson |Joab Jackson |Kimberley Mok
From Postgres to ScyllaDB NoSQL, with a 349x Speed Boost sponsor-scylladb,sponsored-post-contributed, Image from Vladimir Ivankin on Shutterstock. VOXPOP Try our new 5 second poll. It's fast. And it's fun! Terraform or Bust? Has your organization used or evaluated a Terraform alternative since new restrictions were placed on its licensing? We have used Terraform, but are now piloting or using an open source alternative like OpenTofu.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
scylladb.com | Cynthia Dunlop
Eliminating cloud vendor lockin and supporting rapid growth – with a 5X cost reductionKishore Krishnamurthy, CTO at ZEE5, recently shared his perspective on Zee’s massive, business-critical database migration as the closing keynote at ScyllaDB Summit. You can read highlights of his talk below. All of the ScyllaDB Summit sessions, including Mr. Krishnamurthy’s session and the tech talk featuring Zee engineers, are available on demand.
