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Architecture

• Technical Overview of the Database
• Cluster Coordination

FoundationDB Internals

• Storage Queue
• Storage Server Shard Boundary Change

Extending FoundationDB

• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Building
• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Testing-a-FoundationDB-application

Administration

• Understanding FoundationDB Log Files
• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Maintenance-mode
• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Upgrading-FoundationDB

Cluster Troubleshooting

• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Troubleshooting-Failure-to-Launch-Processes
• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Migrating-to-New-Machines

General Ops Knowledge

• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/FoundationDB-Trace-Metrics-Definitions
• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Cluster-reaction-to-failures
• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Handling-of-Storage-Server-Drive-Failures

Configuration

• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Running-FoundationDB-in-the-Cloud
• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Guidelines-for-Choosing-Coordinators
• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Storage-servers-per-disk
• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Convert-FDB-from-DR-to-HA

Benchmarking

Features

Datacenter Failover

• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Multi-Region-Replication

Command Line Interface

TLS

Performance

Status

Backup, Restore, and DR

Using FoundationDB Clients

• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Transaction-size-limit

Go API

• Implement an Atomic Counter using Go Bindings

Python API

• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/TransactionRead-in-official-Python-bindings

Java API

C API

• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Does-%60fdb_future_set_callback%60-guarantee-exactly-once-execution%3F

Design Recipes

Data Modeling

• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Best-practice-of-storing-structured-data,-for-example-JSON-objects

Developer Guide

• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Memory-Considerations
• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Client-memory-considerations
• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Debug-Out-Of-Memory-(OOM)-Errors-in-Simulation
• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Difference-between-snapshot-reads-and-regular-reads
• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Locking-a-Key-Range
• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Difference-between-Tuple.range()-and-Range.startsWith()
• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Multi-Gets-and-Sets
• Debug tips

Layer Concept

• https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/wiki/Best-way-to-add-an-index-on-already-existing-data