EPISODE · Dec 13, 2022 · 28 MIN
Ben Darnell, Cockroach Labs: Avoiding Failure In Distributed Databases
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Ever been so frustrated with the options available that you build your own? Ben Darnell, Chief Architect and Co-Founder of Cockroach Labs, shares how his dissatisfaction with distributed databases led to the creation of CockroachDB. To build a distributed database that not only plans for but expects failures, they needed to implement the Raft consensus algorithm. Getting it up and running was a tough technical challenge. But the result was an incredibly resilient database. Find out why Netflix uses CockroachDB for their databases. Can you have access to a globally available database at the speed of a regional one? Check out how Cockroach Labs accomplishes this with global tables.
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