08:00AM – 08:30AM PST
Lounges Open
Engineers are live in the ScyllaDB Lounge and ready to answer your questions!
08:30AM – 08:35AM PST
Welcome & Housekeeping
08:35AM – 9:05AM PST
Session 1: Why Scaling is So Hard
Everything hurts more at scale. We begin by exploring how scaling amplifies concurrency and resource contention – and what it all means for latency and cost. Then we look at specific pains of different scaling contexts.
– Workload characteristics: read/write mix and traffic patterns
– Real-time AI: vector search and feature stores
– Global scale: consistency and cross-region latency tradeoffs
9:05AM – 9:35AM PST
Session 2: Exploring Scaling Approaches
Not all scaling approaches are created equal – and the right one depends entirely on your workload, your constraints, and how much you're willing to trade off. We analyze key scaling strategies – how they work, when they apply, and how they affect complexity, latency, and cost.
– Sharding, vertical scaling, and horizontal scaling
– Auto scaling and elastic scaling
–Caching, configuration, and other tactical responses
9:35AM – 10:05AM PST
Session 3: Real-World Scaling Scenarios
Guilherme and Felipe share the (anonymized) details of some of the most intriguing database challenges they’ve seen in the field.
10:05AM – 10:20PM PST
Open Q & A
Ask your burning vector search questions – the best ones win a book bundle.
10:20AM – 10:25PM PST