Building the Next-Generation Backend on FoundationDB
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Presentation explains building a next-generation backend using FoundationDB, a sorted key–value database with ACID transactions. It discusses how FoundationDB aims to provide strong consistency, availability, and scalability simultaneously (challenging typical CAP trade-offs) while delivering high performance, and covers practical aspects of using it as the core datastore for high-load systems.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:44Data consistency problem
- 7:16CAP theorem and FoundationDB
- 10:51FoundationDB architecture
- 15:44Working with keys and indexes
- 25:02FoundationDB transactions
- 30:17Performance optimizations
- 37:41Data migrations
- 41:14Challenges and limitations
- 43:24Q&A
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