Cockroach Labs × Kaizen Gaming
Cockroach Labs x Kaizen Gaming, from sharded SQL Server to 816K inserts per minute
816K inserts per minute at 31ms avg response time
Monolithic fragility to predictable global scale
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Why it works
The case study earns its New Capability tag because Kaizen Gaming genuinely could not run a globally distributed, horizontally scalable wallet service before, not merely a slower version of one. The node-scaling progression (6 nodes at 120K inserts/min through 24 nodes at 816K inserts/min with CPU dropping from 75% to 31%) gives readers a concrete mechanism to reason about, which is rare. The story does acknowledge a tradeoff honestly (slightly higher latencies than the sharded setup), which adds credibility.
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