One of the hardest-rocking presentations at RoachFest 2023 came from the supergroup of Joe Rizzo and James Lupolt, application architecture frontmen for Hard Rock Digital. The two described how Hard Rock Digital, the online sportsbook and iCasino, came to choose CockroachDB as their data platform. Eventually, that choice enabled Hard Rock to reduce total cost of ownership for their betting app by avoiding duplicative infrastructure while complying with a complex web of gaming industry regulation...