Straight from the Field
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Field notes: Cockroach DB is positioned as a cattle-style, Kubernetes-friendly distributed SQL engine that handles consistency at the database layer, not the app, and scales from 1,000 to 100,000 TPS for events like Black Friday. Teams are urged to test failure modes — including safe production tests and to prefer multi-region for latency and compliance. AI workflows use vector databases and RAG, spawn many concurrent agents, and need APIs/MA-style agents and capacity planning (Coco Coach DB Mica, Codex-style demos).
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:28Distributed database challenges
- 2:51From pets to cattle mindset
- 4:39Why distributed databases
- 5:42AI workloads in enterprise
- 7:49AI tools transforming workflows
- 10:24Game: Testing consistency and failures
- 12:30Single-region vs multi-region
- 14:16AI agents accessing databases safely
- 15:41Summary
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