RoachFest 2023
2023-10-03..2023-10-04
New York City, United States
[RoachFest 2023, RoachFest 2024: Menlo Park, RoachFest 2025 Las Vegas]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| A Wrap-up | 02m | |
Two days of CockroachDB user talks in NYC condense into a one‑minute highlight reel that shows onstage demos, backstage conversations, and a rooftop meetup at… | ||
| Databases at DoorDash | How DoorDash manages 1.9 PB of data & 1.2M QPS | Michael Czabator | 17m |
Runs CockroachDB at ~1.9 PB and 1.2M QPS across hundreds of clusters, single-region EC2 with replication factor 5 and ZFS-on-EBS. Uses Argo workflows for… | ||
| How to build resilient banking systems: Mindset, culture, and partnerships | Thomas Boltze | 18m |
Payments hub on AWS uses Kafka and CockroachDB with multi‑AZ and an MVP multi‑region rollout; repeated disaster‑recovery tests over six months uncover… | ||
| Human-first: How businesses can build better, more resilient tech | Kate O'Neill | 31m |
Argues that firms should apply three concrete models—strategic optimism, future transformation, tech humanism—and gives specific proofs: in 2000 R&D into… | ||
| Foreign keys, isolation levels, and Van Halen | Ben Darnell | 12m |
Claim: foreign keys are a practical litmus test—like the brown M&M rule—for whether a database actually enforces transactional invariants. Demonstrates using… | ||
| Release Week | Nate Stewart | 18m |
Announces a public preview of physical replication for two‑data‑center failover with consistent results and RTO/RPO measured in seconds, plus GA support for… | ||
| Kubernetes: Trials and triumphs | Frederik Stenum Mogensen, Rasmus Bach Krabbe | 36m |
Three years of running CockroachDB on Kubernetes produces concrete outcomes: an in-house K8s operator (shipped end of 2021) that automates node… | ||
| the future of distributed SQL | Spencer Kimball | 34m |
Companies push CockroachDB to add concrete features: a seven‑region data locality topology for US sports betting; a survival goal abstraction that cuts… | ||
| What’s new with the CockroachDB cloud platform | Lakshmi Kannan | 14m |
CockroachDB Cloud adds a third tier that combines autoscaling and provisioned models, offering fractional reserved capacity down to one vCPU at lower price… | ||
| Journey from Aurora Postgres | Alessandro Salvatori | 24m |
DoorDash migrates from single-writer Aurora Postgres to CockroachDB by building a reusable extraction suite that tails table changes, checkpoints and… | ||
| How CockroachDB helped Spreedly migrate their data from chaos to consensus | Scott Traver | 15m |
Spreedly migrates from an aging key‑value mess into CockroachDB, consolidating six systems into one logical datastore and removing three custom codebases and… | ||
| How to reduce TCO while meeting strict regulatory requirements | James Lupolt, Joe Rizzo | 14m |
Hard Rock Digital runs one logical CockroachDB cluster with nodes in EC2 and on AWS Outposts across seven states, cutting duplicated state-by-state stacks and… | ||
| How Shopmonkey built a geo aware automotive care platform | Jeff Haynie | 17m |
Shopmonkey migrates core data from MongoDB into a three-super-region CockroachDB deployment (nine nodes) to serve 6,000 shops and add ~200–300 locations per… | ||
| Helping you succeed | Dingding Lu, Michael Wang | 14m |
Roadmap details: CockroachDB 23.2 adds stored procedures and cursors plus UDF improvements (transactions and mutations) to ease Postgres migrations; introduces… | ||
| Multi-cloud essentials: How Form3 operates | Rogger Fabri, Mario Morgado | 18m |
Form3 runs a CockroachDB cluster stretched across AWS, GCP and Azure with active‑active replication and a customized operator; backups use locality-restricted… | ||
| How to survive 100x scaling events: Picking the right technologies early | Matthew Seal | 20m |
Noteable experiences ~100x traffic growth after a ChatGPT plugin launch and keeps service online with minimal rearchitecture by using CockroachDB, Kubernetes… | ||
| MOLT goes live: Migrating to CockroachDB with minimal downtime | Dustin Cote | 17m |
Demo shows three migration paths — offline, immediate, and consistent — and specific tools: schema converter MOLT STCT, bulk loader MTT Fetch, and the MOLT… | ||
| Planning for scale: How Materialize uses | Parker Timmerman | 14m |
Materialize moves its metadata and consensus layer onto CockroachDB to get strong consistency with single-digit millisecond latencies. Cockroach outperforms… | ||
| How Storj uses CockroachDB to do the impossible with global cloud storage | Jacob Willoughby | 17m |
Claims a global object storage system that is twice as performant as hyperscale alternatives while costing 80% less and cutting carbon footprint by 80%. Uses… | ||
| Building a distributed mindset: Taking self-hosted CockroachDB to production | Megan Janes | 15m |
A Procter & Gamble IoT team replaces many regional NoSQL stores with a self-hosted CockroachDB cluster distributed across multiple regions, eliminating the… | ||
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