FFI for Rust and C# in ScyllaDB
FFI for Rust and C# in ScyllaDB: how we built an async bridge, avoided hidden marshalling errors, and maintained low latency.
Databases
Databases on ThecoreGrid explores the design, operation, and scaling of data storage systems in highload and distributed environments.
We cover relational and NoSQL databases, NewSQL systems, and specialized storage engines, focusing on consistency models, replication, partitioning, and fault tolerance. Topics include query optimization, indexing strategies, transaction management, and performance tuning under real production workloads. We analyze trade-offs between strong and eventual consistency, latency and durability, and operational complexity at scale. Content includes real-world BigTech practices, incident post-mortems, and lessons from failures in distributed data systems. You’ll also find deep dives into storage internals, caching layers, data lifecycle management, and multi-region deployments. Instead of basic setup guides, the Databases tag delivers practical engineering insights for backend engineers, data engineers, architects, and SRE teams responsible for reliable, scalable, and efficient data persistence.
Data Mesh for AI Agents: How to Prepare the Data Layer
Data Engineering for AI agents: how data mesh, semantic models, and MCP tools help balance precision, security, and cost in enterprise systems.
Netflix commerce architecture: how the system evolved
Netflix commerce architecture: how payments, billing, and entitlements evolved from the U.S. DVD model to a global platform with local payment options.
DNS cache memory: 5 optimizations in Big Pineapple
DNS cache memory in Big Pineapple: how five storage changes cut footprint, improved locality, and reduced lookup latency at Cloudflare scale.
AWS Aurora and DynamoDB for AI Context
Data replication for AI agents: how Aurora, DynamoDB, and Keyspaces help avoid stale reads, race conditions, and context errors.
ThecoreGrid Radar: Weekly Trends in Networking and Cloud Technologies
A selection of architectural insights and releases we’ve been reading this week. Infrastructure 🔹 Robust Constraint-Aware Bayesian Tuning of BBRv2 for QUIC under Tactile Internet ConstraintsA new approach to tuning BBRv2 for QUIC is proposed, taking into account the constraints of the Tactile Internet. This can improve performance under conditions of high latency and unstable … Read more
From Shared Kernel to Verifiable Isolation: Why Cloud Architecture Is Moving Toward Isolation-First Design
How AI agents are reshaping cloud security from shared infrastructure to isolation-first architecture. Explore workload isolation, Kubernetes sandboxing, SPIFFE identity, short-lived credentials, failure containment, and verifiable trust
Text2SQL caching reduces latency without sacrificing accuracy
Text2SQL caching for production: how SQL templates, embeddings, and entity extraction reduce latency, token cost, and load on the LLM without sacrificing accuracy
RAP in Spotify: an index for point queries
RAP in Spotify demonstrates how an external index on top of Parquet accelerates point queries in the data lake without copying data to serving databases
Graph-based remediation reduces pager alerts in MongoDB
How graph-based remediation automates MongoDB recovery and reduces pager alerts through state machine and pathfinding in a graph