Motivation
At Medallia, a key component of our system currently works with an open source relational db. Since this component mainly queries the db entries by key, we want to try to switch to a key-value storage system and take advantage of several benefits provided by such a system, including distributed replication, load balancing, and failover. One of our objectives is to re-architect this component in a way that will allow us to achieve horizontal scalability, that among other things....