Brian Cory Sherwin Site Reliability Engineer

LinkedIn

LinkedIn’s Couchbase as a Database

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• Our use case and requirements• Why we chose Couchbase vs SQL• Pitfalls encountered

The Agenda

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Memcache replacement• Data resiliency• Maintenance friendly

Couchbase @ Linkedin

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AutoRemediation!A job execution platform to remediate operations issues• Database backend for state

tracking of a workflow engine

Using Couchbase as a Workflow Backend

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• Easy JSON documents• Rapid iteration• Horizontally scalable

Our Requirements

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Couchbase as a database• Document store• Views for indexing• Data resiliency• Replication• Simplicity

Why Couchbase?

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• Upfront cost in creating the schema• Rapidly changing documents

• Number of columns• Consistent incremental updates

Why not MySQL?

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• ACID implications• Durability and Consistency

• Concurrency• Different and new tech

Pitfalls using Couchbase

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Questions?bsherwin@linkedin.comIf you want to learn more on AutoRemediaitonhttp://www.meetup.com/Auto-Remediation-and-Event-Driven-Automation/

Questions?