Orders and Inventory Management | CockroachDB Use Cases

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With CockroachDB, you can guarantee accurate data for ecommerce and optimize ordering experiences with confidence. https://cockroa.ch/4gTWBOR 1️⃣ Serve Customers 24/7: Build on a rock solid transactional system made to handle high-stakes environments. CockroachDB lets you make changes to the database without disrupting service. Meaning customers can shop ‘til they drop — but your database never will. 2️⃣ Never doubt inventory counts: Your goal is to sell inventory down to zero, but never oversell. CockroachDB delivers data correctness even as you scale which mitigates issues such as oversold inventory or shopping carts with vanishing items. 3️⃣ Simplify architectural complexity: Managing the status, flow, and state of inventory purchased through orders can create serious complexity. CockroachDB simplifies your architecture with a single logical database to deliver a global view of your ecommerce data. 4️⃣ Capture global revenue year round: To reach global users, you need databases in multiple locations. With a multi-region deployment of CockroachDB, you can pin data to specific locations to slash user latency. And as demand spikes throughout the year, CockroachDB dynamically scales to accommodate growth. Orders and Inventory Management | CockroachDB Use Cases 00:00 Introduction 00:18 Why your application needs to be resilient to failure 00:48 How CockroachDB can survive regional and cloud failures 01:11 Why your application should be able to scale horizontally 01:24 The importance of zero downtime 01:36 Why consistency is essential 01:49 CockroachDB can scale globally and meet regulations without downtime 02:00 Orders and Inventory Management explained 02:19 What will Rob be demonstrating? (Product browsing, adding to a basket, and Checkout) 02:41 Demo: How to set up a multi-region CockroachDB cluster 02:52 Demo: Building the demo environment 03:08 Demo: Creating a fly.io application 03:34 Demo: Behind the code 05:28 Demo: Testing browse latencies, basket latencies, and checkout latencies 06:06 How CockroachDB can ensure excellent ecommerce experiences no matter where users are Inventory management on Black Friday: Challenges and solutions: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/inventory-management-challenges-solutions/ How to build an inventory management system that scales (with reference architecture): https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/inventory-management-reference-architecture/ CockroachDB for Retail: Never Oversell Again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC7GfdbH4-A