ShareChat’s Path to High-Performance NoSQL with ScyllaDB

ShareChat, India’s leading social media platform, grapples with maintaining high performance amid a rapidly expanding user base while keeping costs in check. With 180 million monthly active users generating 2.5 billion posts monthly, choosing the right database solution is crucial. Geetish Nayak, Senior Staff Engineer at ShareChat, shares their journey of modernizing the database infrastructure, achieving 3-5x performance improvements while reducing costs by 50-80%, and discusses the critical NoSQL capabilities and best practices adopted, particularly focusing on ScyllaDB integration.