How Hard Rock Digital achieves performance goals with CockroachDB

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In this presentation James Lupolt, database engineer from Hard Rock Digital, explains how to achieve challenging performance goals with CockroachDB. He discusses dealing with bursty traffic for sports betting and data domiciling for the federal and state regulations for gambling. There are challenges he has faced given the rigor of sports betting regulations but in this talk he speaks more generally about how to get the most out of CockroachDB. Topics include Follower Reads, online schema, and just general distributed database best practices. Full slides from the presentation are available here: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/roachfest/achieving-performance-goals-with-cockroachdb/ 00:00 Who is James Lupolt? Database engineer at Hard Rock Digital 00:43 The architectural challenges of sports betting 1:27 Data domiciling for the federal wire act 2:22 How to adjust to a distributed database 3:53 Changing schema online with zero downtime 6:11 How to use follower reads #CockroachDB #HardRock #sportsbetting #distributedsystems #distributedsql More sportsbetting content: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/best-database-for-gambling-apps/ https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/live-betting-on-acid/ https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/gambling-application-architecture/