In this hands-on lab, we show you how to architect for continuous availability while scaling on demand and shipping change without customer impact.You’ll explore how TiDB’s distributed SQL engine, Raft-based replication, and online DDL keep payments and ledgers running through traffic spikes, releases, and node failures.
What you will learn:
– How TiDB delivers horizontal scale and strong consistency for regulated workloads
– Executing online DDL on hot tables without customer impact
– How Raft leader election and automatic failover preserve availability during incidents
– Capacity planning, hot-partition avoidance, and SLO guardrails
– Streaming operational data with TiCDC for risk analytics and reporting
– Implementing PITR and running recovery drills without maintenance windows
