Grab Redesigns Counter Service Storage for 50% Lower P99 Latency
Grab migrated its high-volume Counter Service from a wide column database to Aerospike using storage abstraction, shadow traffic, data parity valida…
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Uber Redesigns M3DB Sharding with Subclusters to Limit Failure Impact
Uber has redesigned shard placement in M3DB with fixed size subclusters to limit the impact of node failures, maintenance, and cluster scaling. The…
Harper Argues Against the Multi-System Stack and Releases 5.2
The database platform Harper advocates for a single-runtime architecture that keeps application code and data together, with its benchmark against a…
How PGSimCity Turns PostgreSQL Complexity Into a Virtual City 3D Simulation
Nikolay Samokhvalov has developed PGSimCity, an open-source educational tool that visualises PostgreSQL mechanics as a 3D spatial simulation in the…
Stripe Uses Graph Search and State Machines to Automate Database Remediation
The engineering team at Stripe recently described how they automated database incident recovery by modeling their global infrastructure as a graph.…
Wiz Discloses CosmosEscape, and Practitioners Debate What Customers Could Have Done
Wiz Research disclosed CosmosEscape, a chain that escaped Azure Cosmos DB's Gremlin sandbox and reached a platform-wide key granting read and write…
AlloyDB Ships Proxy Models That Replace LLM Calls with Local Inference Inside the Database
Google shipped AlloyDB AI functions GA with a proxy model architecture that trains a lightweight local model from LLM outputs, then runs queries at…
Netflix Cuts Cassandra Read Latency from Seconds to Milliseconds with Dynamic Partition Splitting
Netflix engineers introduced dynamic partition splitting for Cassandra to address wide partitions in time series workloads. The metadata-driven appr…
ExtendDB: Open Source Amazon DynamoDB Compatible Adapter with Pluggable Storage Backends
AWS recently announced ExtendDB, a DynamoDB-compatible adapter that lets developers use the DynamoDB API with different storage backends, starting w…
Cloudflare Identifies Query Planning Bottleneck in ClickHouse
Cloudflare recently described how a slowdown in its billing pipeline was traced to contention inside the query planning stage of ClickHouse. The tea…
TypeORM Reaches 1.0 After Nearly a Decade, Signalling Renewed Maintenance
TypeORM 1.0 is the first major release of the open-source TypeScript and JavaScript ORM since its inception in 2016. This version modernizes platfor…
Discord Rebuilds Database Operations Around Automation to Manage ScyllaDB at Massive Scale
Discord has detailed how it rebuilt its database operations around a new internal orchestration framework called the Scylla Control Plane (SCP), ena…