NoSQL Summer Blockbusters: From Wrangling Rust to HA Trial by Fire

The blog post "NoSQL Summer Blockbusters: From Wrangling Rust to HA Trial by Fire" explores a series of technical challenges and solutions related to database engineering, particularly focusing on ScyllaDB's innovative approaches and real-world applications. It details ScyllaDB's choice of asynchronous direct I/O for optimal performance, the misconceptions about SSD I/O, and the use of Diskplorer for disk behavior analysis. The post also shares user experiences like Rakuten's migration from Apache Cassandra due to performance issues and Kiwi.com's resilience during a datacenter fire. Additionally, it discusses modern database design trends, highlighting the need for infrastructure evolution to meet new business demands and the adoption of Rust for high-performance applications. Finally, the post touches on the PACELC theorem's relevance in understanding distributed database design tradeoffs, emphasizing ScyllaDB's capabilities in providing high-performance, low-latency solutions.