Menlo Park

_{Location: Cafe and Patio}

Chris Casano
_{Director, Customer Engineering Americas, Cockroach Labs}

_{Location: Main stage}

Mainstream adoption of distributed SQL is enabling global scale and reach with our data leaders who need to build highly resilient applications. In this keynote from the RoachFest 2024 customer conference, Spencer Kimball will discuss what a resiliency architecture means, and how operational big data generated from new applications, regulatory requirements and AI requires a modern resiliency platform to address end-user expectations that adapt quickly to the status quo with zero downtime.

Spencer Kimball
_{Co-Founder & CEO, Cockroach Labs
Location: Main Stage}

Standing up Enterprise database infrastructure requires extensive sizing, deployment and tuning.of a cluster while managing databases for many different workloads can be costly. In addition, managing multiple roles and permissions for teams is difficult. This session will cover how organizations can enable an Enterprise-ready, fully-managed experience for their teams that dramatically simplifies operations across the entire application cycle while enhancing security and compliance using CockroachDB Cloud. New release announcements will also be covered.

Lakshmi Kannan
_{Director, Product Management, Cockroach Labs
Location: Main Stage}

Iterable enables brands to deliver individualized and dynamic cross-channel communications at scale -- to billions of people each month and hundreds of millions of people every day. This requires a database for user metadata that is not only scalable but consistent and performant (<10ms latency guaranteed). In this fireside chat, Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Jack Chi will discuss why Iterable switched to CockroachDB in 2021 and their learnings from running their mission-critical workloads on it in production for the past 3 years.

Jack Chi
_{Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Iterable}

Chris Casano
<sub>Director, Customer Engineering Americas, Cockroach Labs

Location: Main Stage</sub>

_{Location: Cafe and Patio}

Route is the leading post-purchase customer experience solution, protecting brands and their customers with shipping insurance, package tracking, fast issue resolution, carbon neutral shipping, and remarketing. Almost since Route’s inception, the company has leveraged CockroachDB to manage its mission-critical order and shipment data. In this talk, Bryan Call, Route’s Senior Principal Engineer, will discuss the company’s long journey with CockroachDB and share learnings on running and scaling self hosted CockroachDB on AWS to meet peak demand while avoiding lost revenue from downtime.

Bryan Call
_{Senior Principal Software Engineer, Route
Location: Main Stage}

City Storage Systems is a startup with a huge mission and an aggressively boring name. We build disruptive restaurant infrastructure for better food – software to run growing food businesses and kitchens to produce quality food at dramatically lower cost. Our name hasn’t stopped us from building a world-class tech team and great products. Our most well-known product brands are Otter, CloudKitchens, and Lab37.

In this fireside chat, Alex Filipchik will provide an in-depth look at City Storage Systems' four-year experience running CockroachDB as the company’s main production database for all Tier 0 workloads. Alex will share the lessons learned running CockroachDB on K8s (including building a home-grown K8s operator), completing a successful cloud migration, and achieving multi-region and multi-cloud compatibility.

Alex Filipchik
^{Head of Infrastructure, City Storage Systems}

Chris Casano
^{Director, Customer Engineering Americas, Cockroach Labs}

_{Location: Main stage}

_{Location: Cafe and Patio}

Devsisters is the South Korea-based video game development company behind the popular CookieRun franchise, which has over 200 million players across the globe. To support blockbuster games and ensure an ideal experience for millions of daily active users, database scalability, resilience, performance, and consistency is essential -- which is why Devsisters migrated to CockroachDB in 2019. More recently the company has accelerated its expansion into new geographies, including China where it runs on Tencent Cloud. In this talk, Devsisters’ ChangWon Lee will share how CockroachDB provides the agility to scale quickly and seamlessly execute major launches on new cloud providers and in new geographies.

Changwon Lee
_{Lead DevOps Engineer, Devsisters
Location: Main Stage}

Enhancing developer productivity from existing infrastructure requires streamlined applications and data migrations, regardless of the database of origin. In addition, proper defense-at-depth approaches need to be implemented across the database lifecycle. This session will cover how to streamline application development while choosing a resiliency strategy that is best suited for your business continuity goals using CockroachDB. New release announcements will also be covered.

Michael Wang
_{Director, Product Management, Cockroach Labs}

_{Location: Main Stage}

Over the past 4+ years, the Netflix team has built a mature, self-service CockroachDB-as-a-Service offering used by hundreds of developers. From his vantage point managing CockroachDB, Netflix Senior Software Engineer Shengwei Wang sees a wide variety of use cases and developer needs, including multi-region configurations. In this talk, Shengwei will focus on the multiregion configurations currently deployed at Netflix and how he coaches internal customers to define their multiregion requirements (e.g., survivability, low latency) and identify the appropriate configuration to meet those requirements.

Shengwei Wang
_{Senior Software Engineer, Netflix}

Ram Srivatsa Kannan
<sub>Software Engineer, Netflix

Location: Main Stage</sub>

Chris Casano
_{Director, Customer Engineering Americas, Cockroach Labs}

_{Location: Main Stage}

_{Location: Cafe and Patio}