The ScyllaDB Sync: May 2025
Last month, we shared our first source-available release, hosted Monster SCALE Summit India/APAC, and many other virtual and in-person events. This month, we're gearing up for even more: new ScyllaDB Cloud releases, all sorts of in-person events around the globe, interactive virtual workshops/labs, a new masterclass, and the 5th year of P99 CONF. Read on for details.
New on the ScyllaDB Blog
Announcing ScyllaDB 2025.1, Our First Source-Available Release
Tablets are enabled by default + new support for mixed clusters with varying core counts and resources.
https://www.scylladb.com/2025/04/08/announcing-scylladb-2025-1/
How to Reduce DynamoDB Costs: Expert Tips from Alex DeBrie
DynamoDB consultant Alex DeBrie shares where teams tend to get into trouble.
https://www.scylladb.com/2025/04/15/dynamodb-costs-alex-debrie/
Why Teams Are Ditching DynamoDB
Teams sometimes need lower latency, lower costs (especially as they scale) or the ability to run their applications somewhere other than AWS.
https://www.scylladb.com/2025/04/22/why-teams-are-ditching-dynamodb/
Why TRACTIAN Migrated from MongoDB to ScyllaDB for Real-Time ML
TRACTIAN’s ML model workloads increased over 2X in a year. Here’s why they changed databases and their lessons learned.
https://www.scylladb.com/2025/03/04/tractian-migrate-mongodb-scylladb/
Database Performance Questions from Google Cloud Next
Spiraling cache costs, tombstone nightmares, old Cassandra pains, and more — what people were asking about at Google Cloud Next.
https://www.scylladb.com/2025/04/17/database-performance-gcn/
Virtual Events
Designing Low-Latency Systems with Rust and ScyllaDB
May 6, 2025 | 10am PT | 1pm ET | 6pm BST
Build and optimize a high-performance Rust app
Want to learn practical tips for designing systems that can scale efficiently without compromising speed?
Join this workshop where we'll address these challenges head-on and explore how to architect low-latency systems using Rust. During this free interactive workshop oriented for developers, engineers, and architects, we’ll cover how Rust’s unique language features and the Tokio async runtime enable high-performance application development.
As you explore key principles of designing low-latency systems with Rust, you will learn how to:
Create and compile a real-world app with Rust
Connect the application to ScyllaDB (NoSQL data store)
Negotiate tradeoffs related to data modeling and querying
Manage and monitor the database for consistently low latencies
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ScyllaDB Labs
May 14 | Virtual | 9am PT | Noon ET | 5pm BST
Join us for an interactive workshop where we’ll go hands-on to build and interact with high-performance apps using ScyllaDB. We'll have two main parts:
Power User Strategies in Practice: In this lab, you’ll learn about some of the design principles that make ScyllaDB so fast then explore how to take advantage of ScyllaDB’s performance. You’ll go through a hands-on lab demonstrating how to run 1 million ops/sec at single-digit millisecond speeds and a lab showing how the Tablets feature makes ScyllaDB elastic and easy to scale.
Real-time Machine Learning Apps with ScyllaDB: In this lab, you’ll explore an example of a real-time online feature store application with ScyllaDB. You’ll run a lab demonstrating how ScyllaDB works with the Feast platform and understand how to incorporate ScyllaDB in your real-time machine learning projects.
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Get Started with ScyllaDB Virtual Workshop
May 7, 14, 21, 28
Ready to try out ScyllaDB and want to make sure you’re “doing it right?” Learn what ScyllaDB is all about, the core concepts you need to know, and a step-by-step demonstration of how to get started.
Join Us →
Spotlight: Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann -- author of the "must read" Designing Data-Intensive Applications book --joined us for Monster SCALE Summit. He shared some big news: he's updating the book with Chris Riccomini, and they're almost done.
Martin and Chris talked about how data-intensive applications have evolved since the book was first published, the top tradeoffs people are negotiating today, and what they believe is next for data-intensive applications. They also shared an inside look at how the book was written.. and how it's being revised.
Bonus: If you don't yet have the book, you can get a PDF of three chapters courtesy of ScyllaDB. Access the book here.
