Journey of CockroachDB at Netflix | History of databases at Netflix

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In this presentation, Netflix Senior Software Engineers Shengwei Wang and Shahar Zimmerman detail the journey of their adoption of CockroachDB. They begin with a history of databases at Netflix, beginning with Oracle, then Cassandra, and then CockroachDB. They then explain how they are delivering CockroachDB as a service to all the engineering teams internally. Full slides from this presentation are available here: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/roachfest/2022/the-journey-of-cockroachdb-in-netflix/ 00:00 Introduction to CockroachDB at Netflix 00:46 History of databases at Netflix 2:08 Data Everywhere strategy 2:57 Problem with some cassandra use cases at netflix 3:16 Netflix studio production database use cases 3:49 Distributed transactions with Cassandra 4:14 Limitations of scale for Aurora 4:38 Why Netflix chose CockroachDB 6:16 History of CockroachDB at Netflix 7:25 How does Netflix maintain CockroachDB? 10:00 How Netflix deploys CockroachDB #NetflixEngineering #CockroachDB