Scylla with Dor Laor

Eric Anderson (@ericmander) and Dor Laor (@DorLaor) go under the hood of Scylla, the open-source NoSQL database designed for low latency and high throughput in big data applications. Dor and his team have reimplemented Apache Cassandra in C++ from scratch, with additional compatibility for DynamoDB. In today’s episode, Dor shares details on the exciting work coming out of ScyllaDB, including Seastar, their open-source C++ framework. Also, check out Scylla Summit 2021 to learn what’s next for Scylla. In this episode we discuss: Enabling Scylla to “gain control” by implementing Apache Cassandra in C++ How Dor and his co-founder were ahead of the curve with their vision for virtualization Scylla’s unique shard-per-core architecture Working with distributed teams, even before the COVID-19 pandemic The growing significance of separating the interface from the engine in open-source Learn about Project Circe, which is being featured at Scylla Summit 2021 right now Links: Scylla Seastar Scylla Summit 2021 Apache Cassandra DynamoDB MongoDB Redhat QEMU Redis Vectorized Apache Hadoop Apache HBase Apache Beam Apache Flink Apache Spark People mentioned: Avi Kivity (@AviKivity)

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