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Designing Data-Intensive Applications in 2025

Chris Riccomini

Author at O'Reilly at Materialized View

Martin Kleppmann

Author at O'Reilly at University of Cambridge

Join Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini for a chat on the evolution of *Designing Data-Intensive Applications*....

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How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages: Scaling Search Infrastructure

Vicki Niu

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Discord

This talk shares how Discord scaled their message search infrastructure using Rust, Kubernetes, and a multi-cluster...

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Engineering at Scale: What Separates Leaders from Laggards

Kelsey Hightower

Distinguished Engineer

Scaling technology is easy to talk about but brutally hard to get right. From CoreOS to...

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ScyllaDB: 10 Years and Beyond

Dor Laor

Co-Founder & CEO at ScyllaDB

There’s a common adage that it takes 10 years to develop a file system. As ScyllaDB...

ScyllaDB’s Monstrous Engineering Advances

Avi Kivity

Co-Founder & CTO at ScyllaDB

Join ScyllaDB CTO and co-founder Avi Kivity as he highlights the engineering milestones achieved over the...

30B Images and Counting: Scaling Canva’s Content-Understanding Pipelines

Kerry Halupka

Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Canva

Scaling content understanding for billions of images is no easy feat. This talk dives into building...

Scaling is the Funnest Game

Rachel Stephens

Research Director at Redmonk

Adam Jacob

CEO and Co-Founder at System Initiative

Building at scale isn’t just about load balancing & fault tolerance—it’s about cascading complexity, trade-offs, and...

Reduce Your Cloud Spend with ScyllaDB

Tzach Livyatan

VP of Product at ScyllaDB

This talk explores why ScyllaDB Cloud is a cost-effective alternative to DynamoDB, highlighting efficient design implementations...

Extreme Elasticity with Tablets, Raft and Kubernetes

Maciej Zimnoch

Senior Software Engineer at ScyllaDB

Recent ScyllaDB versions have improved elasticity using Tablets and Raft-based Consistent Topology Changes, allowing for fast...

How Yieldmo Cut Database Costs and Cloud Dependencies Fast

Todd Coleman

Yieldmo Chief Architect and Co-Founder at YieldMo

Yieldmo processes hundreds of billions of ad requests daily with subsecond latency. Initially using DynamoDB for...

Read- and Write-Optimization in Modern Database Infrastructures

Dzejla Medjedovic-Tahirovic

VP of Data at Social Explorer

Learn more about the data structures behind large databases. Explore B-trees, B^eps-trees, and LSM-trees—how they optimize...

Surviving Majority Loss: When a Leader Fails

Konstantin Osipov

Director Software Engineering at ScyllaDB

In this lightning talk I will present all common combinations of ScyllaDB deployments, single and multi-DC,...

ScyllaDB is No Longer “Just a Faster Cassandra”

Felipe Cardeneti Mendes

Technical Director at ScyllaDB

Predictable performance isn’t just a feature—it’s a must for anyone building serious, data-intensive applications at scale....

Engineering at Scale: What Separates Leaders from Laggards

Kelsey Hightower

Distinguished Engineer

Scaling technology is easy to talk about but brutally hard to get right. From CoreOS to...

The Nile Approach: Re-engineering Postgres for Millions of Tenants

Gwen Shapira

Co-Founder and CPO at Nile

Scaling relational databases is tough, especially for multi-tenant apps that need isolation and consistent performance. Nile’s...

Architecture for Extreme Scale

Avi Kivity

Co-Founder & CTO at ScyllaDB

CTO Avi Kivity shares how scalability is core to ScyllaDB’s architecture.

How Discord Performs Database Upgrades at Scale

Ethan Donowitz

Senior Software Engineer, Persistence Infrastructure at Discord

Discord relies on ScyllaDB to serve millions of reads per second across many clusters, so they...

Feature Store Evolution Under Cost Constraints: When Cost is Part of the Architecture

Ivan Burmistrov

Principal Software Engineer at ShareChat

David Malinge

Senior Staff Engineer at ShareChat

At P99 CONF 23, ShareChat tackled scaling its ML Feature Store to 1B features/sec—then had to...

Exploring ScyllaDB’s DynamoDB-Compatible API

Guilherme Nogueira

Technical Director at ScyllaDB

Nadav Har’El

Distinguished Engineer at ScyllaDB

In this talk we inspect how ScyllaDB implemented Alternator, the DynamoDB-compatible API. We review internal table...

Inside Freshworks’ Migration from Cassandra to ScyllaDB

Premkumar Patturaj

Senior Manager at Freshworks

Freshworks migrated from Cassandra to ScyllaDB to handle growing audit log data efficiently. Cassandra required frequent...

Using ScyllaDB to Implement Lists in Medium’s Feature Store

Andreas Saudemont

Software Engineer at Medium

Discover how Medium is leveraging ScyllaDB to power a fast, scalable data layer for lists in...

Vector Search with ScyllaDB

Szymon Wasik

Director of Software Engineering at ScyllaDB

Vector search is an essential element of contemporary machine learning pipelines and AI tools. This talk...

Two Leading Approaches to Data Virtualization, and Which Scales Better?

Daniel Abadi

Darnell-Kanal Professor of Computer Science at University of Maryland

Should you move code to data or data to code? Conventional wisdom favors the former, but...

Replacing RocksDB with ScyllaDB in Kafka Streams

Almog Gavra

Co-Founder at Responsive

Learn how Responsive replaced embedded RocksDB with ScyllaDB in Kafka Streams, simplifying the architecture and unlocking...

The Mechanics of Scale

Dominik Tornow

Founder & CEO at Resonate HQ, Inc

Scaling distributed systems introduces massive complexity. This talk builds a clear mental model of concurrency, key...

Workload Prioritization: How to Balance Multiple Workloads in a Cluster

Felipe Cardeneti Mendes

Technical Director at ScyllaDB

Workload Prioritization is a ScyllaDB exclusive feature for controlling how different workloads compete for system resources....

Database Migration Strategies and Pitfalls

Patrick Bossman

Senior Customer Engineer at ScyllaDB

Jump start your migration to ScyllaDB! In this talk, we will discuss how to migrate from...

How Discord Indexes Trillions of Messages: Scaling Search Infrastructure

Vicki Niu

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure at Discord

This talk shares how Discord scaled their message search infrastructure using Rust, Kubernetes, and a multi-cluster...

Efficient Deduplication in RecSys at Scale: How We Managed to Reduce Server Cost by 90%

Andrei Manakov

Senior Staff Software Engineer at ShareChat

Ashish Mishra

Software Engineer at ShareChat

Efficient deduplication is key to delivering relevant recommendations at scale. Andrei shares how they optimized for...

Gmetrics: Processing Metrics at Uber Scale

Cristian Velazquez

Staff Software Engineer at Uber

Gmetrics is the new library that Uber uses to process metrics that addresses many of the...

How Natura Uses ScyllaDB and ScyllaDB Connector to Create a Real-time Data Pipeline

Rodrigo Luchini

Software Engineering Manager at Natura

Marcus Monteiro

Sr. Software Engineering Tech Lead at Natura

Natura, a top global cosmetics brand with 3M+ beauty consultants in Latin America, processes massive data...

How Agoda Scaled 50x Throughput with ScyllaDB

Worakarn Isaratham

Lead Software Engineer at Agoda

Learn about Agoda’s performance tuning strategies for ScyllaDB. Worakarn shares how they optimized disk performance, fine-tuned...

A Dist Sys Programmer’s Journey into AI

Piotr Sarna

Founding Engineer at poolside

This talk explores the culture shock of transitioning from distributed databases to AI. While AI operates...

Designing Data-Intensive Applications in 2025

Chris Riccomini

Author at O'Reilly at Materialized View

Martin Kleppmann

Author at O'Reilly at University of Cambridge

Join Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini for a chat on the evolution of *Designing Data-Intensive Applications*....

Scaling Cron at Slack

Claire Adams

Senior Software Engineer at Slack

Scaling cron at Slack: From a single node to a hyperscale distributed system. Learn how Slack...

Powering a Billion Dreams: Scaling Meesho’s E-commerce Revolution with ScyllaDB

Kiran Katreddi Kumar

Vice President Platform Engineering at Meesho

With over a billion Indians set to shop online, Meesho is redefining e-commerce by making it...

Migrating 50TB Data From a Home-Grown Database to ScyllaDB, Fast

Terence Liu

Head of ML at Clearview AI

Terence share how Clearview AI’s infra needs evolved and why they chose ScyllaDB after first-principles research....

Time Travelling at Scale

Richard Hart

Principal Engineer at Antithesis

Storing and querying histories of program execution at scale creates monster large cardinalities. Over a ~10...

Who Needs One Database Anyway?

Glauber Costa

CEO at Turso

What if, instead of one database, an app created a million? This talk explores the trends...

Recent ScyllaDB Cloud Highlights and Future Roadmap

Ivan Zlatoustov

Product Manager, ScyllaDB Cloud at ScyllaDB

Michael Hollander

Director of Product for Scylla Cloud Team at ScyllaDB

ScyllaDB Cloud continued to evolve over the past year, bringing better customer privacy and security, cloud...

The Future of Repair: Transparent and Incremental

Botond Denes

Software Team Leader at ScyllaDB

Regularly run repairs are essential to keep clusters healthy, yet having a good repair schedule is...

Object Storage in ScyllaDB

Ran Regev

Software Team Leader at ScyllaDB

In this talk we take a look at how Object Storage is used by Scylla. We...

Deploying ScyllaDB as an On-Premise Replacement to DynamoDB

Chuck Williams

Architect at Beckman Coulter Life Sciences

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences needed to move an AWS-based app on-prem for compliance. To replace DynamoDB,...

Lessons Learned from Building a Serverless Notifications System

Srushith Repakula

Head of Engineering at KonfHub

Reaching your audience isn’t just about email. Learn how we built a scalable, cost-efficient notifications system...

Overcome Redis Cluster Scale Bottlenecks with ScyllaDB & EloqKV

Hubert Zhang

CTO at EloqData

Introducing EloqKV—a new project built on ScyllaDB! It delivers sub-millisecond read/write performance, full transactions, and a...

High Availability: Lessons Learned

Paul Preuveneers

Senior Director of Solution Architects at ScyllaDB

How does ScyllaDB keep your data safe, and your mission critical applications running smoothly, even in...

Revolutionizing Sleep: Scaling IoT Telemetry to 30+ Billion Daily Events

Deepika Sikri

Head of Engineering at Sleep Number Labs

Vikas Talegaonkar

Director of Engineering at Sleep Number Labs

Sleep Number processes 30B+ sensor events daily to enhance sleep technology. This talk details a journey...

How We Boosted ScyllaDB Data Streaming by 25x

Asias He

Principal Software Engineer at ScyllaDB

Streaming, the process of scaling out/in to other nodes used to analyze every partition, one-by-one and...

Data Structures Handling Trillions of Daily Streaming Events

Evan Chan

Principal Software Engineerv at Conviva

Conviva built a high-performance streaming analytics pipeline processing trillions of events daily—then made it programmable for...

Building a Scalable Event-Driven Architecture for Open Finance Brasil

Thiago Maciel

Senior Software Engineer at Darede

Thiare Costa

Head Of Data and Engineer at OpenFinance

Thomas Rabelo

Tech Lead at OpenFinance

Learn about PCM’s journey to an event-driven, serverless architecture that empowers Open Finance Brasil to process...

Telemetry Showdown: Fluent Bit vs. OpenTelemetry Collector

Henrik Rexed

Cloud Native Advocate at Dynatrace

Fluent Bit or OpenTelemetry Collector—which performs better? With OpenTelemetry unifying observability, Fluent Bit has expanded beyond...

Securely Serving Millions of Boot Artifacts a Day

Matt Fleming

Senior Systems Engineer at Cloudflare

João Pedro Lima

Systems Engineer, Linux Team at Cloudflare

Cloudflare’s boot infrastructure dynamically generates and signs boot artifacts for nodes worldwide, ensuring secure, scalable, and...

Scaling a Beast: Lessons from 400x Growth in a High-Stakes Financial System

Dmytro Hnatiuk

Principal Software Engineer at Wise

Scaling from 66M to 25B+ records in a core financial system is tough—every number must be...

DynamoDB Cost Optimization Considerations and Strategies

Alex DeBrie

DeBrie Advisory at Principal and Founder

How to optimize performance and reduce costs with data modeling.

Evolving Atlassian Confluence Cloud for Scale, Reliability, and Performance

Bhakti Mehta

Senior Chief Architect Confluence Cloud at Atlassian

Explore how Confluence Cloud scaled to handle billions of requests while ensuring performance & reliability. Learn...

What Flow Metrics Teaches Us About Designing Resilient Systems

Mourjo Sen

Senior Software Engineer at Booking.com

Flow metrics help distinguish valuable work (“goodput”) from total work done (“throughput”). This talk explores how...

Route It Like It’s Hot: Scaling Payments Routing at American Express

Benjamin Cane

Distinguished Engineer at American Express

Join the American Express Payment Acquiring and Network team as they share insights on building their...

Pushing Your Streaming Platform to the Limit

Elad Leev

Staff Engineer at Dojo

Join Elad for a hands-on session on Chaos Engineering for streaming platforms like Kafka, Pulsar, NATS,...

Building a High Performance Application with ScyllaDB and Coroutines

João Martins

Software Engineer at iFood

Learn how to build a high-performance application with ScyllaDB and Coroutines in this talk. João walks...

Persistence Pipelines in a Processing Graph: Mutable Big Data at Salesforce

Spencer Ho

Architect at Salesforce

This is a case study on managing mutable big data: Exploring the evolution of the persistence...