FoundationDB Courses and Certifications

Technical Overview of FoundationDB - Internal Operations and Scalability

Explore FoundationDB's internals, focusing on external consistency and scalability in distributed databases. Learn about stateful components, API, reads, commits, and failure handling.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Restoring FoundationDB After Catastrophic Accidents

Strategies for backing up and restoring multi-petabyte FoundationDB clusters, including real-world examples of catastrophic failures and recovery methods using FDBDR and Linux filesystem snapshots.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Evaluation of FoundationDB in Financial Services

Explore Goldman Sachs' evaluation of FoundationDB for financial services, discussing its potential to replace SecDB, their in-house trading and risk management database system.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Running FoundationDB at Scale: Wavefront's Experience - Management and Architecture

Explore Wavefront's large-scale FoundationDB deployment, covering architecture, management, and optimization techniques for high-performance distributed database systems.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

FoundationDB Document Layer: Managing JSON Documents at Scale

Explore FoundationDB Document Layer: manage JSON documents at scale with MongoDB compatibility, ordered docs, consistent indexes, and serializable transactions.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Performance Profiling in FoundationDB

Explore Linux performance analysis tools for FoundationDB, focusing on identifying bottlenecks and potential improvements in client libraries and server components like the Redwood storage engine.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

FoundationDB, the Black Knight - Building Resilient Distributed Systems

Explore FoundationDB's extreme resilience through real-world disruption tests, learning battle-tested patterns for distributed systems, backups, and disaster recovery operations.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Redwood Storage Engine Update - FoundationDB's New B-Tree Based System

Explore FoundationDB's Redwood storage engine: features, performance, and future optimizations for improved I/O throughput and reduced disk footprint.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

How FoundationDB Powers SnowflakeDB's Metadata

Explore how FoundationDB powers Snowflake's metadata, enabling scalability and unique features in cloud SQL analytics. Learn about its architecture, deployment, and operational insights.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Solving Everyday Data Problems with FoundationDB

Learn to solve real business data challenges using FoundationDB. Discover techniques for mapping logs, tables, and indexes into a cohesive system, enabling millisecond-fast queries on millions of data points.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Future of FoundationDB Storage Engines

Explore FoundationDB's storage engine, its distributed architecture requirements, and a new design offering higher write throughput, smaller space footprint, and configurable long-running read transactions.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

FoundationDB Record Layer - Open Source Structured Storage on FoundationDB

Open-source library for structured data storage on FoundationDB, offering schema management, indexing, and query features. Designed for multi-tenant cloud environments and used in Apple's CloudKit.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

NuGraph - GraphDB as a Cloud Service Built Upon JanusGraph and FoundationDB

Explore eBay's NuGraph, a high-performance GraphDB cloud service built on JanusGraph and FoundationDB, designed for secure, real-time business insights from massive datasets.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Using FoundationDB and the FDB Record Layer to Build CloudKit

Explore how FoundationDB and FDB Record Layer enhance CloudKit's capabilities, focusing on advanced indexing, scalable synchronization, and improved reliability for Apple's cloud storage system.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

Rearchitecting CouchDB Secondary Indexes on Top of FoundationDB

Explore the architectural redesign of CouchDB's secondary indexes on FoundationDB, focusing on data models, global state management, sorting, and Apache Lucene integration for improved performance and consistency.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk