Cloud Journeys: Getting to Multi-Region with Distributed SQL

The text discusses the challenges of achieving elastic scaling, managing spiky workloads, and ensuring always-on availability in cloud computing. It highlights the benefits of hybrid cloud deployments and multi-region setups for global enterprises. Examples are provided from a subscription-based streaming platform, a financial technology company, an electronics retailer, and a payment processing network for the trucking industry. These examples demonstrate how multi-region setups can bring data closer to end users, aid in regulatory compliance, support regional survivability, and offer high availability and operational resilience for mission-critical use cases. The text also mentions CockroachDB as a solution that provides strong consistency, low latency, and scalability across multiple regions.