How City Storage Systems survives regional outages with CockroachDB

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City Storage Systems – a startup founded by Uber’s Travis Kalanick – is on a mission to reinvent the businesses of food. Their product brands including Otter, CloudKitchens, and Lab37 offer software to run growing food businesses, and kitchens to produce quality food at dramatically lower cost. Read their full case study at https://cockroa.ch/40yLK71 The Infrastructure Storage Team at City Storage Systems is in charge of building a resilient foundation so that their developers can take technical challenges head on without worrying about the reliability of their platform. In 2019 the team started to build their infrastructure on CockroachDB and now runs a fleet of clusters that are designed to tolerate a region-wide outage. We sat down with Engineering Manager Rasmus Bach Krabbe and Software Engineer Frederik Stenum Mogensen to see how they built a highly-available, strongly consistent database with multi-region and multi-cloud support that remains performant at scale. How City Storage Systems survives regional outages with CockroachDB 00:00 "Set it and forget it and it'll do what it says on the box" 00:17 What is City Storage Systems? 00:37 Why CockroachDB? 01:03 Postgres scalability challenges 01:29 Order management systems and user authentication platforms on CockroachDB 02:02 Kubernetes & CockroachDB for app efficiency 02:21 A smooth cloud migration to CockroachDB About Cockroach Labs: Cockroach Labs is a pioneering software company at the forefront of database technology, dedicated to delivering resilient and scalable database solutions to run mission-critical workloads for the world's most important businesses. With a mission to scale when others fail, Cockroach Labs is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their data with its innovative cloud native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB.