Fireside Chat with Kroger: Examining their Two-Year Distributed SQL Journey & What's Next

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Kroger runs YugabyteDB on Kubernetes across GCP and Azure, migrating from one pilot (shopping list) to about 15 production apps including cart, checkout and the global Enterprise customer DB serving 30–40% of reads. Inventory design is reworked for accuracy and inventory scaled 10x, handled by automation and capacity increases. The team implements multi-zone/geo-partitioning for low latency and active‑active availability, and emphasizes schema design, developer training and standardized deployment patterns.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:48Customer Technology
3. 3:04Guest Introduction
4. 3:33Krogers Distributed SQL Journey
5. 6:42Krogers Maturity Curve
6. 9:58Krogers Use Cases
7. 12:51Enterprise Customer
8. 15:11Business Outcomes
9. 18:15Scaling Challenges
10. 19:35Inventory
11. 21:08Customer Experience
12. 22:46Application Themes
13. 24:09MultiCloud Strategy
14. 27:42Deployment Architecture Value
15. 29:41Distributed SQL vs Traditional Databases

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