Scylla Summit 2018

At Kiwi.com we never stop innovating our product and our architecture. Over the past couple of years, we saw a significant rise in technology requirements both globally and internally and had already tried several database solutions. The transformation went from small applications to complex microservices architectures. We first migrated to Cassandra from a big PostgreSQL cluster to get better performance and scalability, but our demands never stopped growing. That is why we decided to go with Scylla. In this talk, I will cover how our team approached testing of Scylla, the migration plan, how it impacts our business and how it influenced our high-level architecture of the application and infrastructure. It has a significant impact on disaster recovery and availability of our overall system.