Cloud provider outage leads Shipt to CockroachDB | Failover Challenges

Description

In this talk, Shipt's Michael Ching walks through the cloud provider outage that led Shipt to reevaluate their database needs, and the criteria that ultimately led them to CockroachDB. The slides from this presentation are available here: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/roachfest/2022/from-outage-to-uptime-shipts-journey-to-cockroachdb/ 0:00 Intro 1:15 What is Shipt? 2:12 Shipt's original database architecture 2:48 What caused the cloud provider outage? 3:35 Database failover challenges 5:15 Needs for database resilience 7:22 Current architecture using CockroachDB 8:37 Lessons learned #CockroachDB #shiptshopper #DistributedSQL Link to Shipt case study: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/customers/shipt/ Link to Shipt blog: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/customer-shipt/ Link to Shipt Webinar: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/webinars/the-cockroach-hour-how-shipt-built-a-distributed-payment-system-on-cockroachcloud/