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Avoiding Data Hotspots at Scale

Konstantine Osipov (ScyllaDB) addresses the tradeoffs between hash and range-based sharding.

21 Minutes
Konstantin Osipov

Konstantin Osipov, Director of Software Engineering at ScyllaDB

Kostja has started his database career in 2002 working on one of the first distributed genome databases helping scientists glue together partial genome sequences. He was a long time contributor of MySQL, Tarantool, and now, with ScyllaDB, where he's working on lightweight transactions and Raft replication protocol.