Highlights from ScyllaDB Summit Day One

ScyllaDB Summit 2017's first day featured a range of technical presentations and networking opportunities, highlighted by the announcement of ScyllaDB 2.0, which aims to become the first autonomous NoSQL database with self-tuning capabilities. Keynotes included insights from ScyllaDB's leadership on the company's vision, product roadmap, and recent acquisition of Seastar.io for future database-as-a-service offerings. Presentations from customers, such as mParticle's transition from Apache Cassandra to ScyllaDB, showcased significant performance improvements, while ScyllaDB’s engineers introduced new features like Materialized Views and Heat-Weighted Load Balancing. The event also included Ignite Talks and breakout sessions on a variety of topics, including performance tuning and using ScyllaDB with JanusGraph and large-scale data platforms. The day concluded with live demonstrations and networking, with plans to release presentation materials and videos online.