Schedule: Distributed Data and State sessions

Jan Lehnardt examines the challenges and solutions of changing the storage and distributed systems underpinnings from AP to CP (as per CAP) while retaining the unique multimaster replication APIs that CouchDB is renowned for. Read more.

Switching databases requires a lot of effort from engineering teams, and Christian Grabowski walks you through steps you can take to reduce the amount of work needed to achieve payoff. NS1 created an abstraction layer of wire protocols between old and new databases, which allowed it to develop advanced functionality in new services, while legacy services required minimal changes. Read more.

Games can teach the software world a lot about performance, monitoring, change, and beyond. Jon Manning and Paris Buttfield-Addison review current best practices for gathering large amounts of data from ongoing user activity, finding the best modifications to make in the analysis of that data, and how to roll out changes while hundreds of thousands of users are right in the middle of something. Read more.

Peter Bourgon dives into how Fastly is thinking about state at the edge and provides the first public look into the architecture and communication model of a global-scale data system that Fastly is currently prototyping. Read more.

Dmitrii Dolgov takes a deep dive into how to troubleshoot intricate performance issues in PostgreSQL using such tools as strace, perf, extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF). And stay curious. Read more.