In 2021 Starburst Data was building Starburst Galaxy, the cloud managed service for their innovative distributed data lakehouse platform. The team needed a distributed database that could help them seamlessly roll out this cloud offering across multiple regions while reducing latency for their end users and guaranteeing high availability. In this session, Senior Principal Software Engineer Matt Stephenson will dive into why Starburst chose CockroachDB Cloud to meet their survivability and performance goals.

Matt Stephenson
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