Journey of CockroachDB at Netflix | History of databases at Netflix

In this presentation, Netflix Senior Software Engineers Shengwei Wang and Shahar Zimmerman detail the journey of their adoption of CockroachDB. They begin with a history of databases at Netflix, beginning with Oracle, then Cassandra, and then CockroachDB. They then explain how they are delivering CockroachDB as a service to all the engineering teams internally.
Full slides from this presentation are available here: www.cockroachlabs.com/roachfe...
00:00 Introduction to CockroachDB at Netflix
00:46 History of databases at Netflix
2:08 Data Everywhere strategy
2:57 Problem with some cassandra use cases at netflix
3:16 Netflix studio production database use cases
3:49 Distributed transactions with Cassandra
4:14 Limitations of scale for Aurora
4:38 Why Netflix chose CockroachDB
6:16 History of CockroachDB at Netflix
7:25 How does Netflix maintain CockroachDB?
10:00 How Netflix deploys CockroachDB
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[@eprohoda]

CockroachDB, what a professional -have a good day!

[@shellderp]

Forking CRDB is unfortunate, hopefully it becomes more pluggable in the future

[@MrAtomUniverse]

One of the biggest mistake was to move from on-prem to cloud actually , burn rate is high