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• 4 things game developers need from their database (Cockroachlabs)
  Choosing a database isn't the flashiest part of game development, but getting it right can have a huge impact on how players experience you…
• Why deploying on Kubernetes is like flying with an alligator (Cockroachlabs)
  As long as you're willing to follow the rules, deploying on Kubernetes and traveling by plane can be quite pleasant.
• How our open interview process helps you land the job (Cockroachlabs)
  When you interview at Cockroach Labs, you get ample interview prep. We believe in fair and equitable hiring processes, so we opened our int…
• Implementing Unicode collation in CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Detailing the challenges of implementing Unicode collation in CockroachDB, a standard for ordering strings in ways our users around the wor…
• Mainframe to Distributed SQL, Part 2: The Imperative for Change (Cockroachlabs)
  There is an increasing urgency around mainframe modernization. We explore what’s driving the need for distributed databases to help enterpr…
• Open-sourcing the interview process to reduce unconscious bias (Cockroachlabs)
  Cockroach Labs has an open source interview format with questions provided online to candidates to reduce unconscious bias during interview…
• How CockroachDB combats unconscious bias (Cockroachlabs)
  Diversity in tech is dismal and a lot of it comes down unconscious biases. We're fighting unconscious bias Cockroach Labs, starting with ou…
• Cockroach Labs Wins in Six Categories on Built In’s Best Places to Work! (Cockroachlabs)
  Built In today announced that Cockroach Labs won in six categories on its 2023 Best Places To Work Awards.
• The limitations of PostgreSQL in financial services (Cockroachlabs)
  PostgreSQL has almost 40 years of active development under its belt making it one of the most powerful and reliable relational database man…
• How 3 retailers achieved data accuracy, availability, and scale (Cockroachlabs)
  The team at Cockroach Labs has worked with dozens of companies (including Fortune 50 retailers) that use CockroachDB in production today.
• Survive region outages with CockroachDB: Because sh*t happens (Cockroachlabs)
  SURVIVE REGION FAILURE, CockroachDB engineering has transformed the complex, error prone process of deploying and managing a multi-region a…
• Back from the future: Global Tables in CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  How CockroachDB delivers fast, consistent reads in every region for read-mostly data. Understanding two-phase commit (2PC), uncertainty int…
• Running with Route: The RoachFest '24 Video Debut (Cockroachlabs)
  Route's RoachFest 2024 presentation reveals how they enable always-on data for 1 billion-plus orders.
• The CookieRun Recipe: Devsisters’ Database Best Practices at RoachFest24 (Cockroachlabs)
  Devsisters' RoachFest 2024 presentation on mobile game development, and how they launch blockbuster games globally with CockroachDB.
• How to talk about consistency and isolation in distributed DBs (Cockroachlabs)
  The SQL standard defines isolation levels, but we don't have a great vocabulary for talking about consistency levels, and how these two thi…
• How to troubleshoot and optimize query performance in CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Intelligent Insights is a tool that exposes problems detected in workloads and schemas, then offers recommendations to improve the performa…
• Reproduction steps now available for the 2018 Cloud Report (Cockroachlabs)
  Reproduction steps for the 2018 Cloud Report findings in which we benchmakred AWS and GCP.
• Adventures in performance debugging (Cockroachlabs)
  This is the story of the detection, investigation, and fix of just one performance bug.
• 8 ways to use CDC Queries for more powerful data streaming (Cockroachlabs)
  Level up your changefeeds and simplify your ETL process by doing transformations right in the database.
• From batch to streaming data: Real-time monitoring with Snowflake, Looker, and CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Batch data sucks - it's slow, manual, cumbersome, and often stale. That's why we moved from batch uploading our telemetry data to streaming…
• Introducing Logical Data Replication in CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  We are excited to introduce Logical Data Replication (LDR) in Preview in the 24.3 release of CockroachDB.
• Idempotency’s role in financial services (with examples) (Cockroachlabs)
  When it comes to payment and billing applications, engineering teams need to build idempotency into their system to guarantee data correctn…
• Inside CockroachDB 23.2: Stored procedures, UDFs, READ COMMITTED, and live migrations (Cockroachlabs)
  CockroachDB 23.2 includes stored procedures/UDFs, performance boosts with smarter data distribution, physical replication, expedited recove…
• CockroachDB on Azure: Enabling HIPAA & PCI Readiness (Cockroachlabs)
  CockroachDB Cloud on Azure introduces Customer-Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) and Egress Perimeter Controls, advancing HIPAA and PCI readin…
• CockroachDB Serverless is generally available and more product updates (Cockroachlabs)
  CockroachDB Serverless is now in GA, a new migration toolset, and integrations with Vercel and HashiCorp.
• How CockroachDB does distributed, atomic transactions (Cockroachlabs)
  One of the headline features of CockroachDB is its full support for ACID transactions across a distributed database.
• Roaches on open water! CockroachDB on DigitalOcean (Cockroachlabs)
  DigitalOcean aims to simplify web infrastructure. CockroachDB aims to simplify database operations.
• Postgres Overhaul: Riskified’s Database Scaling Insights at RoachFest24 (Cockroachlabs)
  A highlight of RoachFest24 in London: the dynamic talk by Riskified’s Data Platform team on their experience migrating from Postgres to Coc…
• Introducing WAL Failover (Cockroachlabs)
  With CockroachDB release 24.3 we are introducing write-ahead log (WAL) failover, a solution for transient disk stalls commonly seen in clou…
• Performance goals for mission-critical workloads (Cockroachlabs)
  When it comes to choosing a database, deployment, and configuration for your most critical workloads, you’ve got plenty of options.
• What Database Modernization Means in the Cloud Era (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how cloud database modernization shifts architecture toward resilience, global scale, and strong consistency -- without disruptive re…
• How BetterTracker Replaced Its Vector Store | CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how BetterTracker eliminated a standalone vector database by unifying OLTP and vector search on CockroachDB—cutting costs, complexity…
• What is a UUID, and what is it used for? (Cockroachlabs)
  You need to identify your database rows somehow.
• Flexible and correct Identity Access Management (Cockroachlabs)
  How to build flexible, correct, scalable, reliant Identity Access Management with Zanzibar inspired SpiceDB.
• Testing random, valid SQL in CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Some months ago I started work on a way to test random, valid SQL in CockroachDB. This is important to expose unintended behavior in our se…
• Improving Network Observability in CockroachDB Cloud with Network Inspector (Cockroachlabs)
  Network observability is essential for optimal database operations. Here’s how CockroachDB’s Network Inspector employs dual-approach monito…
• Cockroach Labs + Hacktoberfest: A celebration of open source (Cockroachlabs)
  Cockroach Labs is proud to participate in DigitalOcean’s Hacktoberfest 2020, a celebration of open source and community innovation.
• Outages Observer: Why 2025 Failures Demand Unbreakable Systems in 2026 (Cockroachlabs)
  2025 exposed structural fragility across clouds, networks, and critical services. Learn how enterprises can build resilient, always-on syst…
• Synchronous and asynchronous database replication explained (& how data gets lost) (Cockroachlabs)
  Chances are, it’s nestled snugly in its database. But chances are that it’s also less secure than you might think.
• How Nightfall.ai simplified their architecture for metadata storage (Cockroachlabs)
  The Nightfall team runs two major use cases in production on CockroachDB: a metadata storage layer for their API gateway and an interactive…
• CockroachDB and Google Cloud expand partnership, empowering companies to build on cloud-native (Cockroachlabs)
  CockroachDB deployed on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a powerful pairing. Now an expanded strategic alliance deepens and extends that part…
• Truly distributed and 5x more resilient - CockroachDB vs Oracle GDD (Cockroachlabs)
  See how CockroachDB compares to Oracle GDD across architecture, resilience, and scalability -- CockroachDB offers a simpler, more reliable…
• How to migrate from Go dep to Go modules (Cockroachlabs)
  Migrating to Go modules was no straightforward feat for CockroachDB. Read our journey--gotchas and all--in migrating from dep to Go modules.
• The path from beta to 1.0 (Cockroachlabs)
  CockroachDB 1.0 was built to be production-ready with an OLTP use case in mind.
• How to run CockroachDB on IBM S/390 and ARM64 (Cockroachlabs)
  Use three different flavors of Linux, three different kinds of processor architectures, two different cloud providers and an onsite lab, al…
• Using tunable controls for low latency in CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Geographically distributed databases like CockroachDB offer a number of benefits including reliability, cost-effective deployments, and mor…
• Bringing Application-Level Observability to CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how query tagging in CockroachDB links database performance to application context, enabling faster root cause analysis and better ob…
• Surviving Failures: Disaster Recovery with CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Despite all of the planning, something went wrong, and now the goal is to minimize the impact of that failure.
• Is CockroachDB good for hackathons? (Cockroachlabs)
  Cockroach Labs was at Hack the North 2017 for the second year where the team met some fantastic teams working with CockroachDB.
• Driving AI, Data for Demanding Apps: Cockroach Labs In the News -- October 2024 (Cockroachlabs)
  This October 2024 recap presents media coverage about CockroachDB and AI, how we help demanding apps scale, and more.