How Netflix enables CockroachDB-as-a-service | RoachFest 24

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Over the past 4+ years, the Netflix engineering team has built a mature, self-service CockroachDB-as-a-Service offering used by hundreds of developers. From his vantage point managing CockroachDB, Netflix Senior Software Engineer Shengwei Wang and Software Engineer Ram Srivatsa Kannan see a wide variety of use cases and developer needs, including multi-region configurations. In this talk, they focus on the multiregion configurations currently deployed at Netflix and how he coaches internal customers to define their multiregion requirements (e.g., survivability, low latency) and identify the appropriate configuration to meet those requirements. How Netflix enables CockroachDB-as-a-service | RoachFest 24 00:00 Introduction 00:33 Behind Netflix's data platform team 03:24 What does Netflix's fleet look like? 05:13 Balancing during traffic evacuation: Advantages of multi-region databases 07:28 Region survivability: Advantages of multi-region databases 08:23 Performance: Advantages of multi-region databses 08:56 Performance considerations for a multi-region setup 12:42 How to design around multi-region requirements 15:19 Topology Configurations (Abstraction vs Zone configurations) 17:00 Default multi-region topology configurations 18:42 How to expand to new regions 19:48 Topology configuration examples 21:36 What's next? (Abstraction level customer coaching and more) About CockroachDB: Run mission-critical apps on CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.