How to build a payments system that scales to infinity

Imagine your favorite food truck’s payment provider goes down while you and a long line of other hungry people wait impatiently to get lunch and get back to your desk. 

Everybody, from SaaS applications to retailers, to your favorite food truck, has to deal with payments. But architecting a system that can deal with payments at scale can be challenging. That’s because some payments system requirements are complex, including the following:

• Payments often don’t matter much beyond the 60-90 seconds during which a payment transaction takes place. However, because the lamp you ordered is badly damaged, you’re going to return it, so the payment data needs to remain available forever.

• Successful businesses generate a lot of payments data as they scale. Storing all of this data and keeping it available without bogging down the application is a challenge.

• Consistency and correctness are critical. Customers (and auditors) are not forgiving when it comes to money.

• Availability is critical. Even a small amount of downtime could mean a lot of lost revenue for a big enterprise or a loss of early adopters for a small startup.

In this webinar Paresh Saraf and Ankur Raina will discuss how payments work, what different traditional payments systems look like, and how to build systems that can meet all of the above requirements.

Why Attend?

Learn how CockroachDB helps you deliver the secure and always-available payment experiences that your customers expect.This is your chance to learn how to leverage a distributed architecture to ensure maximum availability, even during planned or unplanned downtime. With CockroachDB, your payment systems stay operational 24/7, powering uninterrupted revenue streams.

Who Should Attend?

This session is perfect for database administrators, solution architects, payment professionals, and developers looking to scale payment transactions effortlessly.