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• Preparing for the “New Normal”: How to Minimize the Impact of IT Outages (Cockroachlabs)
  Outages are the new normal: On average, companies report 86 outages per year — translating to 324 minutes of weekly downtime.
• Why database outages still happen: the limits of high availability (Cockroachlabs)
  Many outages look the same, but they happen for different reasons. With high availability architecture relatively known and practiced why i…
• An epic read on follower reads (Cockroachlabs)
  Sometimes, reading stale data is ok — preferred, even.
• How Does CockroachDB Automate SQL User Lifecycle Management? (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how SQL user lifecycle management automates provisioning, role sync, auditing, and deprovisioning to improve access governance at sca…
• The Database at 550 Kilometers: What Orbital Computing Means for Distributed Databases (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how orbital computing changes distributed database design across latency, consistency, resilience, and data sovereignty at global sca…
• CockroachDB Turns Ten: Scaling the Future of Relational Databases (Cockroachlabs)
  From Day One, our goal has been to bring together the benefits of both SQL and NoSQL, using a cloud-native, distributed architecture.
• 9 Reasons to Choose Cockroach Continuum for Agentic Database Growth (Cockroachlabs)
  AI agents are creating databases faster than humans can manage them all while compute-capacity is more scarce than ever.
• Isolation levels without the anomaly table (Cockroachlabs)
  Here's what the different transaction isolation levels mean for the design and implementation of *your* app.
• A Vue.js, Firebase, & CockroachDB App that Makes Mentorship Accessible (Cockroachlabs)
  A group of York University students set out to fix problems with finding mentors. Their app is built with Vue.js, Firebase, and CockroachDB…
• Ideal isn’t real: Stress testing CockroachDB’s resilience (Cockroachlabs)
  In today’s always-on, global applications, raw speed is no longer enough. As announced by Cockroach Labs, our new database benchmarking met…
• CockroachDB: 5x More Resilient Than Oracle Where it Matters (Cockroachlabs)
  See how CockroachDB compares to Oracle GDD in real-world chaos tests — measuring resilience, downtime, and error recovery under node, netwo…
• Admission Control in CockroachDB: How it protects against unexpected overload (Cockroachlabs)
  What are the three types of overload that are managed by CockroachDB's Admission Control system, and how can you protect against them?
• AI Agents Need Context to Reason, Not Just Data (Cockroachlabs)
  Explore AI agent context management to improve reasoning, reduce repeated work, and strengthen governance for production agentic systems.
• MOLT Verify: Ensuring Data Integrity in Database Migrations (Cockroachlabs)
  We built MOLT Verify to give engineers confidence when moving data from legacy databases to CockroachDB.
• Converting cloud provider regions into country flags (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how Paul created an open source JavaScript utility package to help convert cloud provider region codes into real locations and countr…
• A Smart Investment: Why CockroachDB Saves Retailers Money (Cockroachlabs)
  You can’t afford downtime, inconsistent data, or complex infrastructure — not during peak season, and not at scale.
• How to store billions of files with CockroachDB and Kubernetes (Cockroachlabs)
  Optimal Systems needed to store billions of documents in a cloud-based system. With CockroachDB, ElasticSearch, and K8s, they built somethi…
• Gotchas and solutions running a distributed system across Kubernetes clusters (Cockroachlabs)
  This blog covers the practical experience of running a distributed system across multiple Kubernetes clusters including what makes it chall…
• Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team (Cockroachlabs)
  How Cockroach Labs built MOLT Sinai, an AI coding “teaching hospital” that shipped IBM Db2 migration support in under two days.
• 3 basic rules for choosing indexes (Cockroachlabs)
  There are a few basic rules to keep in mind when choosing indexes for a database. A good index should have these three properties: Usefulne…
• Building an application with CockroachDB and SQLAlchemy (Cockroachlabs)
  CockroachDB's support for SQL means access to a variety of data frameworks and tools. Today, we'll build a simple application in Python usi…
• Happy birthday, amazing Grace Hopper (Cockroachlabs)
  Probably the only computer scientist ever to have a warship named after them, the irreverent, sharp-tongued and brilliant Grace Hopper pion…
• Why switch from Cassandra to CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  A lack of flexible indexing, denormalization patterns and other Cassandra limitations led MyWorld to migrate from Cassandra to CockroachDB.
• PostgreSQL data types: what are they, and when to use each (Cockroachlabs)
  Let's take a look at the most commonly-used data types in Postgres and how they're used in practice, including examples.
• Announcing Pay-As-You-Go CockroachDB on Google Cloud Marketplace (Cockroachlabs)
  We are excited to announce the launch of a new pay-as-you-go offering for CockroachDB Cloud on Google Cloud Marketplace.
• The OpenTelemetry Collector as a platform for monitoring integrations (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how we use the OpenTelemetry Collector as a platform for integrating with third-party monitoring vendors like Datadog and Amazon Clou…
• How engineering internships work at Cockroach Labs (Cockroachlabs)
  Our Technical Campus Recruiter shares what makes internships at Cockroach Labs unique.
• CockroachDB skitters into beta (Cockroachlabs)
  We introduced Cockroach Labs last June with a simple yet ambitious mission: Make Data Easy.
• How to calculate your true database costs (Cockroachlabs)
  How do you calculate the total cost of a cloud database? In this blog, we’ll provide a framework to think about the costs incurred when buy…
• 2025: Benchmarking for reality and building systems that last (Cockroachlabs)
  Discover Cockroach Labs' 2025 milestones—from agentic AI readiness and record-breaking database benchmarks to global RoachFest expansion an…
• 5 reasons to build multi-region application architecture (Cockroachlabs)
  Multi-Region application architecture helps with fault tolerance, low latency, growing a user base, increasing operational flexibility & GD…
• How retailers survive Black Friday and Cyber Monday (Cockroachlabs)
  Cyber Monday and holiday shopping stress retail and ecommerce infrastructure. How will your site handle massive traffic?
• How a sportsbetting and iCasino meets strict regulatory requirements with CockroachDB & AWS Outposts (Cockroachlabs)
  Architects from Hard Rock Digital shares their journey building a sportsbetting and iCasino that can quickly enter new markets with Cockroa…
• Use cases for trigram indexes (when not to use Full Text Search) (Cockroachlabs)
  We’ve been planning a visit to Orange County, California, where I grew up, over the upcoming holidays.
• How online schema changes are possible in CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Most relational database systems require taking the DB offline to update your schema. CockroachDB, however, allows online schema changes wi…
• Why we built CockroachDB on top of RocksDB (Cockroachlabs)
  CockroachDB uses RocksDB for its storage engine because of RocksDB's rich feature set, which is necessary for a complex product like a dist…
• What developers need to know about Kubernetes (Cockroachlabs)
  Kubernetes is the de facto solution for orchestrating distributed applications. And, increasingly, developers are being required to interac…
• CockroachDB 1.1 released: Production made easy (Cockroachlabs)
  CockroachDB 1.1 includes support for faster migrations from legacy databases, simplified cluster management, and improved performance.
• Banking on Trust: How RBI’s Cyber Rules and CockroachDB Keep You Safe (Cockroachlabs)
  Get a break down of the Reserve Bank of India's Guidelines on Information Security, Electronic Banking, Technology Risk Management, and Cyb…
• Building a real-world IAM system: centralized vs. distributed (Cockroachlabs)
  You know the reason your access was blocked was because you either forgot your keys/password or had the incorrect credentials.
• Mainframe to Distributed SQL, Part 4: Planning Your Data Modernization Strategy (Cockroachlabs)
  Migrating legacy databases to modern platforms is complex. Learn essential best practices to prepare for a successful legacy mainframe data…
• What cloud-first infrastructure looks like for banks (Cockroachlabs)
  Banks have different infrastructure requirements than most companies undergoing a digital transformation.
• New Product Announcements Kick Off RoachFest 2024 (Cockroachlabs)
  During RoachFest NYC 2024, we unveiled new product capabilities to meet the evolving challenges of the data landscape – as industries move…
• AWS, Azure, and GCP respond to the 2020 Cloud Report (Cockroachlabs)
  Key learnings about how to get the best performance from GCP, AWS, and Azure based on original research and conversations with the big thre…
• What are the limits of the CAP theorem? (Cockroachlabs)
  *Note: This blog was originally published in 2017. It is being updated to include additional capabilities in CockroachDB.
• CockroachDB lands on the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems (Cockroachlabs)
  Gartner recently published the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems and Cockroach Labs has been included in it for the…
• Metadata management: A quick guide to user metadata reference architectures (with diagrams) (Cockroachlabs)
  How to build an architecture that ensures your metadata is highly available, consistent, and disaster-proof.
• When and why to use SELECT FOR UPDATE in CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  CockroachDB 20.1 simplifies the handling of client-side transaction retry errors by enabling SELECT FOR UPDATE.
• How Netflix builds the infrastructure to stream on every device (Cockroachlabs)
  Being a modern media company means streaming, which comes with a variety of technical challenges.
• How Cockroach Labs gives back: Matching bonuses, in lieu of swag (Cockroachlabs)
  How does Cockroach Labs view corporate charitable giving? Like a lot of things here, it's a team effort, and one that reflects our employee…