When should you use follower reads? | Hot rows explained

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Once, our Technical Evangelist was asked, "How would CockroachDB handle thousands of requests per second to one single row?" So join Rob as he simulates an e-commerce application and discusses leaseholders, follower reads, hot rows, and so much more. When should you use follower reads? | Hot rows explained 00:00 Introduction 00:17 Setting up a demo instance 00:38 Simulating a workload 01:45 What happens when a follower read workload takes over? 03:00 Running six requests against the database 04:01 Follower reads explained 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. #databaseconcepts #cockroachdb #distributedsql #ecommerce