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Ensure 24/7 Availability of Your Retail or E-Commerce Application with CockroachDB: A Resilient, Scalable, and Consistent Database Solution

Ensure 24/7 Availability of Your Retail or E-Commerce Application with CockroachDB: A Resilient, Scalable, and Consistent Database Solution

Retail and e-commerce companies operate in a highly competitive environment where customer satisfaction is the key to success. Customers expect an always-on 24/7 application and website. Any downtime can lead to customer dissatisfaction, loss of revenue, and damage to the brand reputation. To ensure continuous availability of their application

Cloud Agnosticism and Regulatory Compliance in Financial Services and Fintech

Cloud Agnosticism and Regulatory Compliance in Financial Services and Fintech

Cloud computing has become increasingly popular in the financial services and fintech industries as a means of improving operational efficiency, scalability, and innovation. However, the adoption of cloud computing in these industries is subject to regulatory requirements around data privacy, security, and operational resilience. In this blog post, we will

Reliable banking with CockroachDB

Reliable banking with CockroachDB

There is probably not a day goes by without us accessing our banking apps on our smartphones. Like me, you have probably experienced that time when the app is unavailable to log you in or you have read on social media that a leading high street bank’s payment system

The Cost of Downtime: How Database Outages Impact Revenue, SLAs, and Brand Reputation (And Why CockroachDB is Critical for Resilience)

If you have ever been involved in resolving an outage, you know that downtime can be costly. But do you know just how costly a database outage can be? Let's take a look at the numbers: Revenue Loss Database outages can have a significant impact on top line revenue. In

Keycloak on Distributed SQL (CockroachDB) - Part 2/2

In part one of this post, we configured a single Keycloak node to store it's data in a resilient and available CockroachDB. In this post we cover how to add more nodes to the cluster and ensure that the keycloak nodes are able to register themselves on CockroachDB which, then

Keycloak on Distributed SQL (CockroachDB) - Part 1/2

With data breaches and cyber attacks becoming increasingly common, modern organisations require a robust security system in place that is also highly available. Keycloak is a popular open-source IAM solution that not only provides robust security features but also high availability between nodes by using a shared cache. It's built