Resilience, Refactors, and Realities: What We Learned Migrating to CockroachDB | RoachFest 25

Booking.com, a global leader in online travel, serves a vast global customer base and processes millions of transactions daily. A few years ago, the company adopted CockroachDB so that they could modernize its Order Management Platform to support its Connected Trip vision. By leveraging CockroachDB’s built-in transactional support, change data capture, inherent resilience, and online schema changes, the team is streamlining their infrastructure and reducing complexity for several key use cases. In this talk, Mahmoud will share why CockroachDB was chosen, the benefits gained, and key lessons from modernizing a mission-critical system.