VMware Network Insight's Configuration-Store Layer

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Covers VMware Network Insight’s migration from a PostgreSQL-based configuration time-series store to FoundationDB (FDB). Describes modeling relational tables as key-value ranges and using FDB features—VersionStamp, conflict handling, GRV-cache, and locality—to build performant models, while addressing issues like higher latencies, transaction/row size and time limits. Also covers tooling and integrations for observing application–FDB interactions, optimization opportunities, cluster health, and troubleshooting challenges and potential enhancements.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:39Search for a Scalable Object Store
3. 5:59Evaluating Foundation DB
4. 7:53Development Process
5. 13:16Troubleshooting / Tuning

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