InfoQ - Microservices

Agoda Replaces 72-Shard SQL Server Price Cache with DragonflyDB

Leela Kumili — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:48:00 GMT

Agoda migrated its 1.5 TB hotel Price Cache from 72 SQL Server shards to DragonflyDB to handle growing read and write volumes. The migration used staged dual reads, parity validation, gradual traffic shifting, and decentralized failover detection. Agoda reports an approximately eightfold reduction in P99 read latency, with two DragonflyDB clusters providing high availability.

By Leela Kumili

Netflix Reworks Conductor for 420 Million Monthly Workflow Executions and 10X Larger Workflows

Leela Kumili — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:17:00 GMT

Netflix has reworked its Conductor workflow orchestration engine to handle larger workloads, increasing supported workflow size from about 2,500 to 30,000 tasks and reducing p99 workflow evaluation latency by about 40%. Conductor 4.0 separates workflow metadata from task data, moves evaluation to asynchronous processing, and introduces dynamic worker allocation and concurrency controls.

By Leela Kumili

Presentation: How to Run on Three Clouds at Once, and When Not to

Ross McFarlane, Kevin Holditch — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Ross McFarlane and Kevin Holditch discuss Form3's evolution from a single-cloud setup to a triple active multi-cloud architecture. They share key engineering strategies for cross-cloud networking, distributed databases with CockroachDB and NATS, custom Kubernetes operators, and navigating distinct regional disaster recovery expectations across the UK, Europe, and US financial markets.

By Ross McFarlane, Kevin Holditch