Exploring Next
Exploring Next — Ep 369 w/ Justy & Cody — ScyllaDB cut Sprig's read latency 4X after Redis and ClickHouse hit a wall
Sprig, a fintech platform, hit latency walls with Redis and ClickHouse as their user base grew. By migrating to ScyllaDB—a high-performance NoSQL database built on Cassandra—they cut read latency by 4x and solved throughput bottlenecks. The episode explores why a specialized database sometimes beats general-purpose tools, the trade-offs of that choice, and when you'd actually reach for ScyllaDB in your own stack.