FoundationDB as an identity graph database

2024-06-26

This talk provides insights into a large-scale distributed system and deep dive into how FoundationDB is leveraged as the backing store for the Identity Graph system. Also dives into Adobe’s FoundationDB journey, including benchmarking FoundationDB in Azure and AWS clouds, Kubernetes vs VM deployment, fault-tolerance testing, and HA strategies.

Encryption in FoundationDB

2024-05-21

Snowflake enhanced FoundationDB by designing/implementing an enterprise-grade native encryption data-at-rest solution. The talk deep-dives into encryption at-rest architecture, supported configuration modes, and ability to integrate with existing enterprise’s encryption infrastructure.

How Tigris leverages FoundationDB for global metadata storage

2024-05-20

Tigris is a globally distributed S3-compatible object storage service. Tigris uses FoundationDB as the underlying storage engine to store the metadata. In this talk, Himank will share the technical details around why they chose FoundationDB and how we are using it at scale to power our object storage service.

Why, and how FoundationDB is moving to Swift

2023-10-13

Clouded Next Generation JavaScript

2023-09-16

How do you call a cloud that is good with JavaScript? I do not know! How do you call a database that is good with JavaScript?

A developer-driven approach to building secondary indexes

2023-03-15

Building secondary indexes for a database is always about balance. A balance between a system that scales and is easy to manage and an API that is intuitive and delightful for a developer to use.

Parenthetical leaning banking-as-a-service

2022-08-31

Griffin is a banking-as-a-service platform that use FoundationDB

Real-time first person Epic game

2022-08-31

Scaling Fortnite is undoubtedly a testament to the services our engineers build. Every service must be built at “Fortnite Scale”, and so, even the most rudimentary applications quickly turn into a distributed system exercise.

Rust FoundationDB with Tokio

2022-06-15

Rajiv M Ranganath will give a talk about the fdb-rs project, and the first Rust crate of the project that is the fdb crate. He will share with us how one can architect cloud scale applications using Rust Tokio and FoundationDB.

Record Layer 101

2020-10-15

The FoundationDB Record Layer is an open source library that provides a record-oriented datastore with semantic similar to a relational database, implemented on top of FoundationDB. It is highly used within Apple by CloudKit, Apple’s cloud backend service to host billions of independent databases, many with a common schema.