WeAreDevelopers Logo WeAreDevelopers
Sign in
For You LIVE
World Congress 2023 • Oct 6, 2023

Database Magic behind 40 Million operations/s

Jürgen Pilz

When a single flight booking triggered 25,000 operations, traditional databases buckled. Discover how Amadeus uses NoSQL to seamlessly process 40 million operations per second with zero downtime.

Pause
Mute Enter Fullscreen
#1 about 4 min

Overview of Amadeus and its passenger booking scale

How a leading travel industry platform scaled to handle fifty million operations per second.

#2 about 3 min

Introduction to Couchbase and distributed multimodel architecture

An overview of a memory-first database merging the capabilities of Membase and CouchDB.

#3 about 2 min

Consolidating diverse database functionality within one system

Combining relational queries, document storage, and analytics prevents complex database infrastructure sprawl.

#4 about 3 min

Scaling clusters and handling automated replica failover

How independent nodes automatically rebalance workloads and provide high availability during failures.

#5 about 3 min

Managing catalog and inventory with flexible document structures

Handling heterogeneous airline fare information using unstructured documents and eventing pipelines.

#6 about 3 min

Improving application response times for customer 360 workloads

Migrating from relational systems to a document store decreases query latency for personalized passenger applications.

#7 about 3 min

Deploying hybrid architectures and cross-datacenter replication instances

Configuring global data distribution using managed services, local deployments, and container orchestration.

#8 about 3 min

Supporting offline mobile access using peer-to-peer synchronization

How edge devices utilize local storage and wireless protocols to operate without internet connectivity.

#9 about 4 min

Audience questions on database migration and data compliance

Answers to questions regarding migration paths, data compliance, and managing referential integrity in document stores.

Matching moments

7:52 min

Audience questions on database performance, deployments, and data migrations

Gregor Bauer Gregor Bauer · LIVE

4:56 min

Boosting developer productivity via consolidated converged database architectures

Wei Hu Wei Hu · WWC 2023

54 sec

Scaling database infrastructure for massive retail events

Florian Mair Florian Mair · WWC 2024

2:34 min

Simplifying enterprise architecture with database-less data processing

Markus Kett Markus Kett · WWC 2023

6:41 min

Audience questions on databases, freeze modes, and monitoring

Cheng Zhang · LIVE

2:02 min

Common practical use cases for cloud database deployments

Gregor Bauer Gregor Bauer · LIVE

More from World Congress 2023

The year 3000, a brief history of Web Development thumbnail
25:30
over 2 years ago

The year 3000, a brief history of Web Development

Lorenzo Pieri

Demografie nutzen um jedem Bewerber das passende Angebot zu machen! thumbnail
8:52
over 2 years ago

Demografie nutzen um jedem Bewerber das passende Angebot zu machen!

Nathalie Gierth

Guided Memory Management: Rust's Ownership Model thumbnail
0:18
almost 3 years ago

Guided Memory Management: Rust's Ownership Model

Stefan Baumgartner

Passwordless future: WebAuthn and Passkeys in practice thumbnail
32:32
almost 3 years ago

Passwordless future: WebAuthn and Passkeys in practice

Clemens Hübner

External Secrets Operator: the secrets management toolbox for self-sufficient teams thumbnail
30:07
almost 3 years ago

External Secrets Operator: the secrets management toolbox for self-sufficient teams

Moritz Johner

Building Reliable Serverless Applications with AWS CDK and Testing thumbnail
25:18
almost 3 years ago

Building Reliable Serverless Applications with AWS CDK and Testing

Raphael Manke

Upcoming sessions on this topic

Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

Databases in the Agent Era

Monica Sarbu

Founder and CEO of xata.io

Monica Sarbu
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases

Wei Hu

Senior Vice President of Research and Development

Wei Hu
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

Boring Failover: Predictable Region Recovery Across 5,000 Microservices

Sahil Sabharwal, Garvit Kataria

Sahil Sabharwal
Garvit Kataria
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

AI Agents are Only as Smart as their Context: Building a Real-Time Context Engine at Intuit

Bharat Patel

Lead Software Engineer at Intuit

Bharat Patel
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

From Cloud Native to Multi-Cloud Native: Write Once, Deploy Anywhere

Sandeep Pal

Principal Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce

Sandeep Pal
Open session

World Congress 2026 North America

From Legacy to Longevity – How a 17-Year-Old System stayed Modern

Alexander Arians

Empowering Engineers to drive innovation

Alexander Arians

Related videos

Tomorrow's cloud data platforms - fully managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) thumbnail
43:28
LIVE • almost 5 years ago

Tomorrow's cloud data platforms - fully managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS)

Gregor Bauer

Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases thumbnail
32:46
WWC 2024 • almost 2 years ago

Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases

Wei Hu

Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases thumbnail
28:41
WWC 2025 • 12 months ago

Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases

Wei Hu

In-Memory Computing - The Big Picture thumbnail
30:36
WWC 2023 • almost 3 years ago

In-Memory Computing - The Big Picture

Markus Kett

Scaling Databases thumbnail
21:09
WWC 2024 • almost 2 years ago

Scaling Databases

Tobias Petry

Scaling: from 0 to 20 million users thumbnail
28:12
WWC 2023 • almost 3 years ago

Scaling: from 0 to 20 million users

Josip Stuhli

Related articles

From learning to earning

Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.