Project Circe August Update

ScyllaDB's Project Circe, an initiative aimed at enhancing ScyllaDB's consistency and performance, introduced several updates in August 2021, including the new Safe Mode to guide users away from non-recommended options in production. The project compares ScyllaDB's performance with Apache Cassandra and advances the integration of Raft for stronger consistency. ScyllaDB's development team dedicates 20% of their time to personal projects, such as adding WebAssembly to user-defined functions. Recent updates include enabling repair-based node operations by default, implementing User-Defined Aggregates, optimizing memory-related diagnostics, and improving row cache behavior. The installer now supports RAID 5, and the docker image base has switched to Ubuntu 20.04. ScyllaDB's Monitoring Stack continues to evolve, with the addition of a Consistency Level Calculator and updates to ScyllaDB Manager and Operator.