--- title: "Building a Payments System That Scales to Infinity (With Examples)" url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-payments-system-that-scales-to-infinity-with-examples--qjcplpp06 source_url: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-payments-system-architecture/ type: article source: "CockroachDB" author: "Cockroach Labs" published: 2022-08-02T16:00:39.669Z updated: 2023-01-10T07:38:19.184Z tags: ["performance", "backend", "database", "cockroachdb"] reading_time: 6 upvotes: 40 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building a Payments System That Scales to Infinity (With Examples) **[CockroachDB](https://daily.dev/sources/cockroachdb)** · [@cockroachdb302](https://daily.dev/cockroachdb302) · 6 min read · 40 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Payments often don’t matter much beyond the 60-90 seconds during which a payment transaction takes place. Storing all of this data and keeping it available without bogging down your application can be. CockroachDB allows table- and row-level data homing, making it easy to assign rows to specific geographic regions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#database](https://daily.dev/tags/database), [#cockroachdb](https://daily.dev/tags/cockroachdb) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-payments-system-that-scales-to-infinity-with-examples--qjcplpp06)