Evolve: A Database Journey from Ground to Cloud
summary
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 adopts Apache Cassandra to store hundreds of millions of visitor profiles and sustain massive write-heavy load while wrestling with 2 TB/node guidance and painful repairs. Final migration to YugabyteDB hits ~50,000 requests/sec with sub-10 ms average (2–3 ms writes), consolidates four databases into one, runs JanusGraph on the same cluster, and proves continuous global availability.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:11Setting the Stage
- 3:00Active vs Active Failover
- 7:47Stratascale
- 9:08The Dark Ages
- 10:47Bootstrapped
- 12:05Cassandra
- 15:12New Platform
- 16:35Load Testing
- 18:00Summary
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