Modern data workloads require modern technologies. In the era of connected devices, fast data ingestion has become an essential part of the ability to capture data. Elisabeth Strenger is sharing Speedb's story: How we found a way to cope with high volumes of data ingestion using our Hybrid Compaction and our path to becoming an open source company that is focused on building a community around Speedb, RocksDB and LevelDB so we can build together the storage engine for the modern applications that can serve every use case.