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Ben Darnell, Cockroach Labs: Avoiding Failure In Distributed Databases
Manage episode 350661326 series 3417160
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.
23 episodes
Manage episode 350661326 series 3417160
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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