Distributed SQL Summit 2020
2020-09-15..2020-09-17
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[Distributed SQL Summit 2019, Distributed SQL Summit 2020, Distributed SQL Summit 2021, Distributed SQL Summit 2022]
who it's for
platform engineers, database engineers, site reliability engineers, backend engineers, cloud architects, devops engineers, engineering managers
topics
kubernetes operators and CRDs; YugabyteDB design and architecture; distributed SQL migrations; GraphQL compiled to SQL; Postgres protocol proxying with Envoy; leaderless replication (Manhattan); DynamoDB to Yugabyte migration; stateful serverless with Anna and Cloudburst; edge and multi-region databases for 5G; container-attached storage for Kubernetes
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes as a Universal Control Plane | Joe Beda | 29m |
Kubernetes is framed as a distributed-systems kernel whose core is Kubernetes is a database: etcd stores desired state (spec) and actual state (status) and the… | ||
| The Distributed Database Behind Twitter | Mehrdad Nurolahzade | 30m |
Tracks Twitter from MySQL to Cassandra to a custom NoSQL called Manhattan built 2012–2014 to solve Cassandra’s gossip scaling, missing counters and heavy ops… | ||
| Monolith to Microservices | Brenesh Stanslas Flower Mary | 29m |
Claims a practical, stepwise path to break a mainframe monolith into microservices using Wipro’s moderniZ platform, with concrete tooling: automatic… | ||
| 5G and Data Challenges | Hale Donertasli | 24m |
Claims that 5G core data must hit <1 ms latency and often need <50 µs per I/O, with control-plane TPH rising from HSS’s ~5–20 to AMF >100 TPS, creating race… | ||
| Pinterest’s Exploration of Distributed SQL | Lianghong Xu | 24m |
Pinterest runs HBase across roughly 50 clusters storing over 10+ PB and serving ~100M+ QPS with many systems on top (graph DB “Zen”, column store UMS, RocksDB… | ||
| Modernizing App Development: Planet-scale GraphQL & Distributed SQL | Allison Kunz | 28m |
Shows Hasura GraphQL Engine fronting distributed SQL (example: gigabyte db) and Postgres, compiling GraphQL queries into SQL and using prepared statements to… | ||
| Admiral Scales Globally with YugabyteDB on GCP + Single-Digit Latency | MJames Hartig | 23m |
Admiral migrates from NoSQL to YugabyteDB on GCP to serve publisher account data with global single-digit reads, running a Go microservice stack across 5… | ||
| Envoy & Service Mesh for Databases: What the Future Holds | Christoph Pakulski, Prasad Radhakrishnan | 59m |
Envoy parses the Postgres wire protocol via a Postgres filter and a tcp proxy, routes connections to a four-node Yugabyte cluster (listener on port 1968) and… | ||
| A Migration Journey from Amazon DynamoDB to Yugabyte YSQL and Hasura | Tobias Meixner | 31m |
Migration replaces Apollo Server + Amazon DynamoDB with Hasura plus Yugabyte YSQL and adds Prisma as the canonical data layer, claiming better developer… | ||
| The Art of the State: Serverless Computing and Distributed Data | Joe Hellerstein | 28m |
Berkeley RISELab presents a stack that makes serverless functions stateful by combining a monotonicity-based theory (the CALM theorem) with a key‑value store… | ||
| The Future of Data Infrastructure: A Telco Roundtable | Puneet Devadiga, Hale Donertasli, Prasad Radhakrishnan, Kartik Rallapalli, James Taylor | 01h 02m |
Telco teams describe concrete wins and open problems: a zero-touch provisioning pipeline brings a site online in under 10 minutes, Kubernetes runs on… | ||
| Transforming the Omni-Channel Experience at Kroger | Mahesh Tyagarajan | 14m |
Kroger refactors an on‑prem stack into a cloud‑native, hybrid platform on Kubernetes, building hundreds of microservices and componentized UIs, using open… | ||
| Scaling to Billions of Internet Observations per Day | Hudson Clark, Ethan Uberseder | 24m |
Censys moves its ingestion from Postgres to YugabyteDB to handle roughly 15 billion IOPS per day and an inventory of ~670 million services, using Kubernetes on… | ||
| Cloud Native Spring for Relational Databases | DaShaun Carter | 20m |
Shows a concrete path from single node Postgres to a distributed SQL deployment using example code that runs with Spring Data R2DBC and a Postgres‑compatible… | ||
| Evolve: A Database Journey from Ground to Cloud | Travis Logan | 19m |
Starts with an active-active SQL cluster backed by a single SAN that fails catastrophically, moves to a hybrid host with repeated multi-hour outages, then… | ||
| Data Divide: End User’s Cloud Native Journey to Distributed Databases | Ken Owens | 22m |
Mastercard runs 2500+ databases across six engines and sees 5,000+ alerts per month, so the push is to stop bespoke schemas and offer a standard data service… | ||
| Container Attached Storage: Open Source Extensions: Kubernetes + Data | Evan Powell | 25m |
OpenEBS (CNCF) provides container attached storage on Kubernetes with multiple engines (localpv, cStor, MayaStore rust engine) that run in user space and… | ||
| Introduction to YugabyteDB: Design and Architecture | Karthik Ranganathan | 27m |
YugabyteDB is a distributed SQL database that shards tables into tablets, replicates each tablet with a typical replication factor three, and uses Raft… | ||
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