A system of record is a critical component of modern software applications that manage vital data, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and resiliency in cloud-native environments. To address the evolving needs of IT giants like Oracle, systems of records must scale up and down to handle peak demands and withstand public cloud outages. A decade ago, monolithic RDBMS were the standard, but they introduced complexity when scaling vertically, leading to manual sharding and resharding issues. NoSQL databases emerged to address these issues, but their non-relational data format posed challenges for downstream applications. YugabyteDB offers a cloud-native approach with features like strong consistency, active-active architectures, and native storage of JSONB data, enabling fast read operations, global ACID transactions at scale, and ease of UI pagination in retail, ultimately enhancing developer efficiency and improving existing applications.