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		msy 60 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FoundationDB: From idea to Apple acquisition [vide... Does anyone know how widely FoundationDB is now being used at Apple? I know they run a huge Cassandra cluster, does this serve a different use case?

ethan_smith 59 days ago | [–]

Apple uses FoundationDB extensively for iCloud services including CloudKit, with public documentation confirming it handles billions of operations per second across their infrastructure.

ntqz 60 days ago | | [–]

My understanding is that CloudKit runs on it.

minitoar 60 days ago | [–]

iCloud uses both.

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