ScyllaDB's founders tried to make an operating system faster. Cassandra refused to cooperate. That stubborn benchmark became a company - and, years later, helped Discord cut its message cluster from 177 nodes to 72.

For three decades, Wayne Ariola has translated invisible technical risk into questions executives can act on. At ScyllaDB, the former testing strategist now applies that instinct to the databases beneath real-time business.
They left Riot to make an online world that welcomed the people MMOs usually scare off. Palia found 10 million of them - and still cost the founders the studio.