How Superbet Migrated to the Cloud with CockroachDB

Superbet aims to bring technology-powered entertainment to the world, with a focus on sports and gaming. Starting out in Romania in 2008, Superbet found success early on with the award for Best Overall Sports Betting Operator in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), and has since expanded into multiple European markets, including Belgium and Poland.

Now Superbet brings in over $1 billion in revenue. Behind the sports betting platform is Happening, a tech engine that supports Superbet’s consumer brands, including Napoleon and Lucky7 Ventures. In anticipation of continued success at Superbet, the DevOps team at Happening wanted to focus on streamlining their critical data stores, and ultimately decided to move from an on-prem NoSQL solution to on-prem CockroachDB to CockroachDB running on AWS.

With the expectation of 10x business growth over the following three years, the team knew they needed a reliable, cloud-agnostic solution, like CockroachDB. They also wanted to ensure data integrity and minimal customer impact while migrating their applications to the cloud.

00:00 "It's a really scalable key data store that has all the features you need"
00:21 What is Superbet?
00:37 The limitations of MongoDB
01:12 Database requirements for online sports betting
01:55 The benefits of CockroachDB
02:20 CockroachDB for ticket storage
02:50 Deploying CockroachDB on Kubernetes with ease