Highlights from ScyllaDB Summit Day Two

At the ScyllaDB Summit, a focus on performance and scalability was highlighted through various talks and demos by experts from diverse fields. Joseph Fullop and Miguel Martinez Pedreira discussed high-powered computing and data migration to Apache Cassandra/ScyllaDB, while Shlomi Livne offered insights into optimizing query performance. Jesse Haber-Kucharsky demonstrated ScyllaDB on Kubernetes, and Arash Rezaei emphasized performance tuning with Samsung's NVMe SSDs. Presentations covered a range of topics, including streaming ETL on Apache Kafka by Hojjat Jafarpour, stateful streaming with Apache Spark by Burak Yavuz, and ScyllaDB’s use in Page Context Categorization by Rocket Fuel. Twitter's Boaz Avital shared experiences with managing large storage clusters, and Raphael Carvalho and Nadav Har’El discussed compaction strategies. Zen.ly's migration from Elasticsearch was detailed by Jean-Baptiste Dalido, while Brian Hawkins explored time-series databases. Avi Kivity and Alexander Sicular addressed tools for performance understanding and migration strategies, with Eyal Gutkind focusing on optimization and cost savings. Glauber Costa and Shlomi Livne discussed repair, backup, and user-defined types, concluding with Pekka Enberg's talk on scalable secondary indexes. The summit's presentations, including emerging features and user interviews, are available online for further exploration.