MongoDB 8.0 Now Available with Performance Gains and Enhanced Sharding
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by Renato Losio
3w ago
MongoDB has announced the general availability of MongoDB 8.0, introducing significant performance enhancements and new features. Highlights include embedded sharding configuration servers, expanded support for queryable encryption, and the capability to move collections across shards without requiring a shard key. By Renato Losio ..read more
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Pinterest Shuts down One of the World's Largest HBase Deployments
InfoQ » NoSQL
by Renato Losio
4M ago
The engineering team at Pinterest recently deprecated their HBase clusters due to high maintenance and infrastructure costs, a lack of Hbase experts, and limited product functionalities. Following Pinterest’s move to TiDB and other database technologies, the community questions whether this is another sign of the decline of the non-relational database that runs on top of Hadoop and HDFS. By Renato Losio ..read more
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Azure Cosmos DB Integration with Vercel Now Generally Available
InfoQ » NoSQL
by Robert Krzaczyński
4M ago
Microsoft announced the general availability of the Vercel and Azure Cosmos DB integration, following the public preview released about one year ago. Sajeetharan Sinnathurai, a product manager at Microsoft, announced upcoming features, including an AI template with integrated vector search capabilities, responding to community feedback. By Robert Krzaczyński ..read more
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Uber Migrates 1 Trillion Records from DynamoDB to LedgerStore to Save $6 Million Annually
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by Rafal Gancarz
5M ago
Uber migrated all its payment transaction data from DynamoDB and blob storage into a new long-term solution, a purpose-built data store named LedgerStore. The company was looking for cost savings and had previously reduced the use of DynamoDB to store hot data (12 weeks old). The move resulted in significant savings and simplified the storage architecture. By Rafal Gancarz ..read more
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QCon London: Lessons Learned From Building LinkedIn’s AI/ML Data Platform
InfoQ » NoSQL
by Rafal Gancarz
7M ago
At the QCon London 2024 conference, Félix GV from LinkedIn discussed the AI/ML platform powering the company’s products. He specifically delved into Venice DB, the NoSQL data store used for feature persistence. The presenter shared the lessons learned from evolving and operating the platform, including cluster management and library versioning. By Rafal Gancarz ..read more
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QCon London: How Duolingo Sent 4 Million Push Notifications in 6 Seconds During the Super Bowl Break
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by Rafal Gancarz
7M ago
As part of the Super Bowl marketing campaign, Duolingo sent out 4 million mobile push notifications when the company’s five-second ad aired during the commercial break. At QCon London, Doulingo’s engineers presented the asynchronous AWS architecture responsible for broadcasting messages to millions of users across seven US cities. By Rafal Gancarz ..read more
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QCon London: Meta Used Monolithic Architecture to Ship Threads in Only Five Months
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by Rafal Gancarz
7M ago
Zahan Malkani talked during QCon London 2024 about Meta’s journey from identifying the opportunity in the market to shipping the Threads application only five months later. The company leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in record time. By Rafal Gancarz ..read more
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Microsoft Announces Garnet: a New Open-Source Cache-Store and Redis Alternative
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by Renato Losio
7M ago
Microsoft Research has recently announced Garnet, an open-source cache-store designed to accelerate applications and services. Using the RESP wire protocol, Garnet is a faster alternative to cache-stores and is compatible with existing Redis clients. By Renato Losio ..read more
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Reddit Migrates Media Metadata from S3 and Other Systems into AWS Aurora Postgres
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by Rafal Gancarz
7M ago
Reddit consolidated its media metadata storage into a new architecture using AWS Aurora Postgres. Previously, the company sourced media metadata from various systems, including directly from AWS S3. The new solution simplifies media metadata retrieval and handles 100k+ requests per second with latency below 5ms (p90). By Rafal Gancarz ..read more
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Expedia Speeds up Flights Search with Micro Frontends and GraphQL Optimizations
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by Rafal Gancarz
7M ago
Expedia made flight search faster by up to 52% (page usable time) by applying a range of optimizations to web and mobile applications. To support these improvements, the company improved the observability of its applications. Expedia Flights web application has been migrated to Micro Frontend Architecture (MFA) to allow flexibility, reusability, and better optimization. By Rafal Gancarz ..read more
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