Consuming CDC with Java and Go
If you are a regular visitor of our blog, you probably heard about Change Data Capture (CDC) in Scylla. It’s a feature that allows you to track and react to changes made to data in your cluster. In...
View ArticleScyllaDB Developer Hackathon: Docker-ccm
Our most recent ScyllaDB developer conference and hackathon was a virtual event. As a hackathon team, we wanted to itch one of our own scratches and make testability a bit more simple and...
View ArticleDisney+ Hotstar: Powered by Scylla Cloud
Disney+ Hotstar was originally launched in 2015 as Hotstar, the streaming service for Star India, which was later acquired by The Walt Disney Company. In March 2020 the digital service was rebranded...
View ArticleWhat’s New at Scylla University for February 2021
We had a busy 2020, and a lot has happened since my last update. Usage was significantly higher than the prior-year, and we had thousands of new users consuming University material. We added lots of...
View ArticleScylla Developer Hackathon: Rust Driver
Scylla’s internal developer conference and hackathon this past year was a lot of fun and very productive. One of the projects we put our efforts into was a new shard-aware Rust driver. We’d like to...
View ArticleExpedia Group: Our Migration Journey to Scylla
Expedia Group, the multi-billion-dollar travel brand, presented at our recent Scylla Summit 2021 virtual event. Singaram “Singa” Ragunathan and Dilip Kolosani presented their technical challenges, and...
View ArticlePrometheus Backfilling: Recording Rules and Alerts
For many Prometheus users using recording rules and alerts, a known issue is how both are only generated on the fly at runtime. This limitation has two downsides. First of all, any new recording rule...
View ArticleScylla University: New Lessons for February 2021
In my previous blog post, I wrote about the top students for 2020, the Scylla Summit Training Day, getting course completion certificates, and other news. In this blog post I’ll talk about new lessons...
View ArticleProject Circe February Update
Project Circe is our 2021 initiative to improve Scylla by adding greater capabilities for consistency, performance, scalability, stability, manageability and ease of use. For this installment of our...
View ArticleBest Practices for Benchmarking Scylla
Benchmarking is hard. Or, I should say, doing a good, properly set up and calibrated, objective, and fair job of benchmarking is hard. It is hard because there are many moving parts and nuances you...
View ArticleMaking Shard-Aware Drivers for CDC
Change Data Capture (CDC) is a feature that allows users to track and react to changes in their dataset. CDC became production ready (GA) in Scylla Open Source 4.3. Scylla’s implementation of CDC...
View ArticleQOMPLX: Using Scylla with JanusGraph for Cybersecurity
QOMPLX is a company dedicated to solving complex problems, such as tackling the daunting world of cybersecurity. In this domain you need to be able to support a data model capable of rapid and...
View ArticleZillow: Optimistic Concurrency with Write-Time Timestamps
Dan Podhola is a Principal Software Engineer at Zillow, the most-visited real estate website in the U.S. He specializes in performance tuning of high-throughput backend database services. We were...
View ArticleA Shard-Aware Scylla C/C++ Driver
We are happy to announce the first release of a shard-aware C/C++ driver (connector library). It’s an API-compatible fork of Datastax cpp-driver 2.15.2, currently packaged for x86_64 CentOS 7 and...
View ArticleKiwi.com: Nonstop Operations with Scylla Even Through the OVHcloud Fire
Disasters can strike any business on any day. This particular disaster, a fire at the OVHcloud Strasbourg datacenter, struck recently and the investigation and recovery are still ongoing. This is an...
View ArticleScylla University Live
Following on the success of our online 2021 Scylla Summit Training Day, we will host our first-ever Scylla University Live event. Featuring helpful new coursework, Scylla University Live will take...
View ArticleScylla Open Source Release 4.4
The Scylla team is pleased to announce the release of Scylla Open Source 4.4, a production-ready release of our open source NoSQL database. Scylla is an open source, NoSQL database with superior...
View ArticleProject Circe March Update
Springtime is here! It’s time for our monthly update on Project Circe, our initiative to make Scylla into an even more monstrous database. Monstrously more durable, stable, elastic, and performant. In...
View ArticleScylla’s New IO Scheduler
As any other computational resource, disks are limited in the speed they can provide. This speed is typically measured as a 2-dimensional value measuring Input/Output Operations per Second (IOPS) and...
View ArticleCapacity Planning with Style
Scylla Cloud now offers a new Scylla Cloud Calculator to help you estimate your costs based on your database needs. While it looks like a simple tool, anyone steeped in the art of database capacity...
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