# Best practices for user metadata management at enterprise scale

DevFeed: [Best practices for user metadata management at enterprise scale](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/best-practices-for-user-metadata-management-at-enterprise-scale-23793.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://cockroachlabs.com/blog/metadata-at-scale>)

Author: Charlie Custer

Published: 2024-04-02T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Cockroach Labs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cockroach-labs.md>)

Topics: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [consistency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/consistency.md>), [Availability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/availability.md>), [Cockroach Labs](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cockroach-labs.md>), [User Experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/user-experience.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>)

Tags: [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [cockroachdb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cockroachdb.md>), [consistency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consistency.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [enterprise](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/enterprise.md>), [gaming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gaming.md>), [user-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/user-experience.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains why user metadata is critical to application experiences, especially at scale. Using an online game as an example, it describes how missing inventory items, unavailable friends lists, database consistency problems, or outages can disrupt users, then introduces best practices for designing a metadata store.

## Source excerpt

User data. Application data. Customer history. User account data. Behavioral data. Metadata is at the very heart of your business, and when you do metadata right, people won't notice you've done anything at all.