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ScyllaDB in Action

By Bo Ingram


ScyllaDB in Action is a practical guide to everything you need to know about ScyllaDB, from your very first queries to running it in a production environment.

This book teaches you ScyllaDB the best way—through hands-on examples.

The author, Bo Ingram introduces it this way: “ScyllaDB in Action is the book I desperately wanted years ago…Building a database that easily scales and performs queries quickly and efficiently is a throughline of the book; I want to show you how to build, maintain, and run in production an effective and efficient database.”

This book excerpt covers:

  • How working with ScyllaDB compares to working with other databases
  • How ScyllaDB runs in practice and what matters most in real-world deployments
  • How to launch your first cluster, add tables, and run queries
  • How to perform effective data modeling in ScyllaDB
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ScyllaDB in Action demonstrates how to integrate ScyllaDB into data-intensive applications.

You’ll work through a hands-on project step by step as you use ScyllaDB to store data and learn to configure, monitor, and safely operate a distributed database.

Along the way, you’ll discover how ScyllaDB’s unique “shard per core” approach helps you deliver impressive performance in real-time systems.

Hear what readers are saying about ScyllaDB in Action

If you plan to run ScyllaDB at scale, read this book before going to production! Bo Ingram captures years of high scalability practices in a friendly and fun package.”
Dor Laor, Co-Founder and CEO, ScyllaDB

Working with a distributed database without a proper understanding of how it works is insane. This all-in-one guide to ScyllaDB is the path to avoiding insanity.”
Avi Kivity, Co-Founder and CTO, ScyllaDB

Bo combines deep tech knowledge with hard-won insights from the trenches, keeping it engaging with his signature humor. This book will save you a ton of headaches.”
Sahn Lam, Coauthor of System Design Interview Series

About the Author

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Bo Ingram

Bo Ingram is a staff software engineer at Discord working in database infrastructure. He has extensive experience working with ScyllaDB as an operator and developer.