How Rightmove ensures always-on experiences for 2+ billion annual site visits | RoachFest 24

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Rightmove is the UK’s number one property website. Alongside helping people find property for sale or rent, they provide a huge range of services to estate agents, new home developers, mortgage lenders, surveyors and more. As the company adopted a cloud first strategy to support its 2+ billion annual site visits, it took the opportunity to modernise the databases. The goals were to reduce architectural complexity, speed up software delivery lifecycles, reduce operational overhead, and enable multi-cloud and multi-regional resilience. In this talk, Andrew Tate, Head of Technology Operations at Rightmove, discusses the company’s decision to accelerate adoption of CockroachDB as a system of record for mission critical applications, and their learnings deploying and running CockroachDB in production. Rightmove’s Database Migration Story: A RoachFest Highlight: https://cockroa.ch/4fU0Ucr How Rightmove ensures always-on experiences for 2+ billion annual site visits | RoachFest 24 00:00 Introduction 00:18 What is Rightmove? 01:32 1PB of property data and 80 million listings 03:20 The challenges of 20+ years of data 06:06 Why did Rightmove choose CockroachDB 08:18 The software architecture behind Rightmove 10:06 Learnings and experiences from using CockroachDB 10:54 What's next for Rightmove?