ScyllaDB Summit Preview: Grab and ScyllaDB – Driving Southeast Asia Forward

In an interview leading up to the ScyllaDB Summit 2018, Aravind Srinivasan, a Staff Software Engineer at Grab, discusses his journey into database technologies and the strategic decision to employ ScyllaDB at Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading logistics company. He recounts his transition from working with filesystems at Isilon Systems to building a queuing system at Uber using Cassandra, which eventually led to operational challenges. At Grab, he sought a high-performing, low-overhead metadata store and found ScyllaDB suitable due to its ability to handle rapid increases in traffic volume. His upcoming talk at the Summit will cover Grab's use of ScyllaDB, its integration with AWS and Kafka, and the unique scaling patterns of their use case, while also advising attendees to familiarize themselves with technologies like Kafka and stream processing to gain the most from his presentation.