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June 23 - 25, 2025
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FoundationDB, the Black Knight - Peter Boros, Tigris Data
Wednesday June 25, 2025 11:55am - 12:35pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2G
Monty Python’s Black Knight is the opponent that couldn’t lose. Even after all of his limbs were cut off, he offered a draw: “it’s just a scratch.”

FoundationDB (FDB) is a distributed transactional key-value store that is very difficult to defeat just like the Black Knight. Open-sourced in 2018 after an acquisition by Apple, FDB was designed to be a common layer: almost all databases have a backing key-value store. Many have built on top of it including Snowflake, Adobe, & Datadog.

FDB got it right: transactions, distributed by default, and extreme reliability. Kyle Kingsbury (aphyr) the author of Jepsen series on distributed systems correctness, said: "haven't tested foundation in part because their testing appears to be waaaay more rigorous than mine."

We demo a live FDB cluster and try to disrupt its operations. Our attempts are informed by real world experience supporting a metadata service for billions of objects globally.

When we finally succeed, we show how backups and disaster recovery resurrect FDB. We’ll learn about highly resilient design patterns and operations. We have battle scars, and want to help others!
Speakers
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Peter Boros

Founding Engineer, Tigris Data
Peter is a founding engineer at Tigris Data. He has been using and working with open source software from early 2000s. Peter's first and foremost professional interest is performance tuning and large scale automation. Before rejoining Tigris Data, Peter worked on large scale MySQL... Read More →
Wednesday June 25, 2025 11:55am - 12:35pm MDT
Bluebird Ballroom 2G
  Cloud + Containers

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