Fireside Chat with Comcast: Delivering Database Choice to Developers
summary
Comcast adds distributed SQL (YugabyteDB) to a portfolio that already includes Oracle MySQL and MongoDB, citing linear scalability, strong consistency plus geo-distribution, auto‑sharding and native failover as the deciding capabilities. A self‑service DBaaS platform runs RDBMS and NoSQL today; migrations happen both by refactor and replatform and are already running in production. A database selection tool returns top three choices scored 0–100 with cost estimates, and a migration analyzer guides scope, with a planned migrator and Kubernetes‑based DB services next.
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- 0:00Introduction
- 0:21Ahmed Patel Introduction
- 0:36About Comcast
- 2:11Digital Trends
- 4:12Variety of workloads
- 5:41Rising expectations
- 7:08Challenges
- 9:28Looking forward
- 10:57Scalability
- 12:13Open Source
- 13:56Distributed SQL
- 15:46Migration of Apps
- 16:58Database as a Service
- 18:17Database Choice for Developers
- 20:27Dev Ops Relationship
- 22:54Learnings
- 25:45Whats Next
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