A modern, scalable, and resilient database for retail

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Yes. You can run a global e-Commerce business and you can do it safely, without ever overselling a product. Join Cockroach Labs Technical Evangelist Rob Reid (ex-Lush) as he shares best practices in building an inventory management system that is resilient, scales with unpredictable demand, is strongly consistent, and is accurate across markets and geographies. During the webinar he: ✔️ Discusses strengths of distributed SQL in building an inventory management system ✔️ Shares how CockroachDB is deployed to enable some of the best inventory management systems in the world ✔️ Shows CockroachDB in action via a live demo Watch more videos from Cockroach Labs: https://www.youtube.com/c/cockroachdb A modern, scalable, and resilient database for retail 00:00 Welcome and introduction 00:48 What is CockroachDB? 00:59 How CockroachDB scales 02:23 How CockroachDB survives node, region, AZ, and cloud provider failures 02:38 How CockroachDB helps you comply with regulation and reduce read/write latencies 02:54 Why CockroachDB brings together the best of RDBMS, NoSQL, and Cloud 03:18 How much does downtime cost for retail businesses? 04:07 Why is scalability important for retail? 05:00 Accurate stock levels, basket contents, and reporting figures need strong db consistency 05:48 How can multi-region applications create better customer experiences? 06:52 How to simplify your software architecture 08:18 The benefits of a multi-region environment for retailers 10:05 What is a follow-the-workload toplogy? 11:09 What are regional tables? 11:32 What is regional-by-row? (For low read/write latencies) 11:51 What are global tables? 12:11 Demo: What can retailers and customers expect from a globally distributed database? 13:18 Demo: CockroachDB for inventory management 16:56 Recap: How CockroachDB can keep regulators, customers, and developers happy 18:21 Couldn't I just run a traditional database across each of the regions my business operates? 20:14 What are the biggest challenges that retail businesses face today? 22:47 How can CockroachDB handle spiky workloads such as Black Friday? Additional resources ✔️ What is CockroachDB? https://cockroa.ch/42uaZ9G ✔️ CockroachDB architecture overview: https://cockroa.ch/3RzIvrh ✔️ CockroachDB for retail and ecommerce: https://cockroa.ch/3UnNVqL ✔️ Inventory management on Black Friday: Challenges and solutions https://cockroa.ch/4b1v4Hu ✔️ How to build an inventory management system that scales (with reference architecture): https://cockroa.ch/449lhwP