How Rightmove used CockroachDB to modernize a monolith

Description

Rightmove is the UK’s #1 property portal – it's also a publicly traded, multi-billion dollar company that has been in business since 2000. Their mission is to make moving easier by giving everyone the best place to find the tools, expertise, and trust to make it happen. https://cockroa.ch/3Zoc2IN To support their 24 years worth of industry data, Rightmove has a Central Platform and Reliability Engineering Team. They are in charge of keeping the website available at all times, and building out the platform so that other product teams can ship new features. In order to build and maintain a reliable platform, Rightmove decided to modernize their monolithic infrastructure design using CockroachDB. How Rightmove used CockroachDB to modernize a monolith 00:00 "It's the company I think of when I think about modern, resilient, databases" 00:08 What is Rightmove? 00:21 Who are Rightmove's customers? 00:45 Active/active data center challenges 01:04 When a database slows developer velocity 01:16 Why they needed a highly available, resilient, geographically distributed database 01:31 How to successfully migrate data from Oracle to CockroachDB 02:26 CockroachDB's use cases at Rightmove 02:55 How CockroachDB reduces cognitive load for Rightmove's development teams 03:08 How CockroachDB reduces operational complexity