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Back in 2014 or so, I saw the FoundationDB team demo the product at a developer conference. They had the database running across a bunch of machines, with a vis
by romanhn 3y ago
Back in 2014 or so, I saw the FoundationDB team demo the product at a developer conference. They had the database running across a bunch of machines, with a visual showing their health and data distribution. One team member would then be turning machines on and off (or maybe unplugging them from the network) and you could see FDB effortlessly rebalancing the data across the available nodes. It was a very striking, impressive presentation (especially as we were dealing with the challenges of distributed Cassandra at the time).
- boxcarr 3y agoWhen I saw the post about Foundation DB, I remembered the exact same demo running on a cluster of Raspberry Pi instances! Sadly, no memory of it on YouTube.
- boxcarr 3y agoWayback Machine partially to the rescue. Found the page (https://web.archive.org/web/20150325003301/https://foundationdb.com/videos/foundationdb-fault-tolerance-demo https://web.archive.org/web/20150325003301/https://foundatio...), but the Vimeo video was nuked when foundationdb.com shutdown. Here's the HN thread about that demo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5739721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5739721
- romanhn 3y agoI feel like I saw something a bit more refined (I recall node statuses aggregated on one cool UI), so this may have been an earlier iteration, but the beginning of the following video has some of what we're talking about: https://youtu.be/Nrb3LN7X1Pg https://youtu.be/Nrb3LN7X1Pg