Dillon Pinto, Author at The Distributed SQL Blog

December 14, 2021

Distributed SQL Summit 2021: How Kroger’s Data Architecture Powers Omnichannel Retail Experiences at Scale

Kroger is America’s largest grocer, with approximately 2,800 stores operating across 35 states. With a mission to Feed the Human SpiritTM, the company’s strategy is to ensure customers can find the fresh food they want—no matter how they want to shop. This strategy requires Kroger to maintain a flexible tech stack. Most importantly, the data architecture must be able to scale to meet growing demand,

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Distributed SQL

October 27, 2021

by Dillon Pinto

Distributed SQL Summit 2021: Rajkumar Sen on Fulfilling the Data Modernization Dream

It’s critical for enterprises to modernize and democratize their database to drive digital transformation. Being stuck with legacy infrastructure only causes massive problems downstream, such as an inability to scale due to high costs, fragility, and vendor lock-in. It also creates a burden to add more infrastructure to scale with a requirement to be always-on, lowering developer productivity.

Distributed SQL databases solve this problem for enterprises by providing lower TCO,

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Distributed SQL

October 8, 2021

by Dillon Pinto

Distributed SQL Arrives at Turkey’s Largest E-Commerce Platform

At the Distributed SQL Summit 2021, Hüseyin Demir, Senior Database Platform Engineer at Trendyol, talked about the business and technology needs that drove the company to look for a new relational database management system (RDBMS). The talk covered the detailed performance and technology evaluation conducted by Trendyol, and explained why YugabyteDB—an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native applications—was the optimal choice to power its business.

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Databases Distributed SQL How To

July 16, 2021

by Dillon Pinto

Distributed SQL Summit Asia Recap: How Xignite Delivers Financial Data at Scale

At Distributed SQL Summit Asia, Qin Yu – VP, Engineering, Xignite – presented a talk on how Xignite uses YugabyteDB to power its technology infrastructure to meet the current and future data needs of its financial services and fintech customers.

Xignite – A pioneer in market data innovation

Xignite is on a mission of “making market data easy.” It does this by offering a cloud-based Market Data Management Solution that aggregates and manages market data in the cloud,

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Databases Distributed SQL

November 20, 2020

by Dillon Pinto

Distributed SQL Summit Recap: Transforming the Omni-Channel Experience at Kroger

At the Distributed SQL Summit 2020, Mahesh Tyagarajan – VP Engineering, Kroger – presented the talk “Technology Strategy and Transformation”. The talk focused around the technology infrastructure, current challenges, and the need faced by Kroger to transform its technology stack.

Kroger is as big as retail gets

Kroger is the largest supermarket in the US,

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