[Wranglers] FoundationDB Meetup July 2025

[Ali, Saqib]

Here are the video recordings from the session.

Self Healing FoundationDB From Gray Failures by Paymaan Raza:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zonHByBBb4M

RocksDB Storage Engine for FoundationDB by Neethu Haneesha Bingi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LibOOXxeraE




On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM Ali, Saqib <docbook.xml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Register here:
> https://www.meetup.com/foundationdb-meetup/events/308524378/
>
> Agenda:
>
> ------------------------------------
> Talk 1: RocksDB Storage Engine in FoundationDB (30 mins + Q&A)
>
> Speaker: Neethu Haneesha Bingi, Software Engineer, Apple
>
> Speaker Bio: Neethu is a software engineer with extensive experience in
> designing and building reliable, scalable storage and distributed systems.
> At Apple for over four years, she has been a contributor to FoundationDB
> and led the initiative to integrate RocksDB as a supported storage engine.
> Prior to Apple, Neethu held key engineering roles at Tintri, Oracle, and
> Meta, with a strong focus on system reliability, performance optimization
> in distributed systems, and storage infrastructure.
>
> Talk Summary: FoundationDB now supports a new storage engine: RocksDB,
> joining the existing lineup that includes SQLite, Redwood, and Memory
> storage engines. In this talk, Neethu will introduce the motivation behind
> integrating RocksDB into FoundationDB, share a high-level overview of
> RocksDB itself, and explain the integration process. She will also dive
> into tuning capabilities, operational considerations, and key challenges
> encountered along the way. This session aims to raise awareness of this new
> capability and what it means for the FoundationDB ecosystem.
>
> ------------------------------------
> Talk 2: Self Healing FoundationDB From Gray Failures (30 mins + Q&A)
>
> Speaker: Paymaan Raza, Software Engineer, Apple
>
> Speaker Bio: Paymaan is a software engineer at Apple, where he works on
> FoundationDB. With a deep interest in databases and infrastructure, he
> enjoys tackling hard problems from first principles to build simple,
> scalable, and useful systems. Prior to Apple, he developed a core streaming
> platform for Meta's control plane and engineered key data infrastructure
> components at LinkedIn, gaining extensive experience in crafting reliable
> solutions for large-scale distributed environments.
>
> Talk Summary: Gray failures in FoundationDB are subtle performance
> degradations that, while not full crashes, impact system health and burden
> operators with manual intervention. This talk presents a simple yet
> effective self-healing mechanism designed to address such issues. We'll
> demonstrate how we reused FoundationDB's core architectural building
> blocks—such as unbundled roles, central Cluster Controller, transport layer
> latency metrics, and fast recovery—to implement a "complaining" algorithm
> where processes report slow peers, enabling automated detection and
> remediation, thereby significantly improving FoundationDB's resilience and
> reducing operational load.a
>
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