Cloud service providers offer the world’s most expansive infrastructure, enabling the development of multi-region applications that deliver low-latency performance, withstand region-level outages, and meet strict data residency requirements. In this session, we’ll explore essential design patterns for building mission-critical, globally distributed applications using YugabyteDB. Learn how innovative digital-native companies and global Fortune 500 enterprises in industries like media, retail, and financial services deploy YugabyteDB across cloud and on-premise environments to achieve high availability, scalability, and cross-region resilience. We’ll walk through proven deployment models, examine trade-offs, and share actionable strategies for architecting cloud-native databases that are built to scale and never fail.
Speaker

Alan Caldera
Distinguished Engineer @YugabyteDB
Alan Caldera is a Distinguished Engineer at YugabyteDB and was the company’s first Sales Engineer hire in 2018. With nearly 40 years of experience in the database industry, he brings deep expertise across technologies including Informix, DB2, ParAccel (Amazon Redshift), InfluxDB, and Oracle. Throughout his career, Alan has held diverse roles spanning development, consulting, sales, and industry leadership. His hands-on knowledge and strategic insight make him a trusted advisor to customers adopting distributed PostgreSQL and building resilient, scalable applications.
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