Circle Scales Up Digital Parenting Services with DataStax Astra DB

Nathan Bak, principal engineer at Circle, shares how his company uses DataStax Astra DB to manage its cloud-based services for families. The main challenges they face are right-sizing their database and dealing with hard limits as data grows. Astra DB's elastic scaling feature allows them to handle varying workloads and storage requirements easily. They use Astra DB for proofs of concepts, such as sending usage emails to customers, and find it particularly useful for quick or small projects due to its ease of setup and scalability. The best attribute of Astra DB is its underlying Cassandra technology, which provides robust data handling capabilities without requiring extensive configuration efforts.