FoundationDB: The Best-Kept Secret of New Distributed Architectures!

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FoundationDB is presented as a compact distributed key–value engine used as a storage foundation for custom databases and services. It provides strong ACID serializability similar to Spanner, achieves linear scaling in practice (example: 10 million ops/sec on ~400 cores), uses an actor-based, role-specific process architecture, and relies on a deterministic simulator with replayable injected faults for development and debugging; teams use it to run metadata and per-user virtualized databases.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 7:17What is FoundationDB
3. 13:40History and open source
4. 23:36Simulator and reliability
5. 29:54Transactional model
6. 39:14Architecture and uses
7. 44:12Conclusion

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