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• The Ethical Cloud: How to evaluate the true cost of your cloud platform (Cockroachlabs)
  Rob Reid from LUSH Digital on the ethical dimensions of cloud computing, and what you can do to start investigating your cloud computing im…
• Why I left IBM to work on CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  But back in university, I avoided the Databases course at all costs. A little ironic when you consider I quit my job building IBM Db2 to wo…
• How to use containers, OpenShift, and Kubernetes with Red Hat (Cockroachlabs)
  Jim Walker chats with Red Hat principal product manager Scott McCarty about everything from the future of serverless and distroless, to wha…
• Why more companies are moving to cloud databases (Cockroachlabs)
  Why operational data is increasingly moving to the cloud, and how you can assess the true cost of a cloud database.
• Always On at Nexo: Assuring Resilience and Scale with CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Nexo’s fast growth was welcome, but their database couldn’t keep up. By switching to CockroachDB, the digital assets wealth provider was ab…
• CockroachDB 1.0 is production-ready (Cockroachlabs)
  Launching CockroachDB 1.0, a production-ready release with distributed SQL and multi-active availability in two tiers: CockroachDB Core and…
• Scale Smart, Resilient, and Global: CockroachDB + AWS at re:Invent 2025 (Cockroachlabs)
  For Cockroach Labs and AWS, it’s been a year since we announced our Strategic Collaboration Agreement, and this is a moment to highlight ho…
• The guide to secure deployments in CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  The combination of secure mode and monitoring provides a user with a solid base on which to build database infrastructure in production wit…
• Inside RoachFest 2024: London Preview with MC Rob Reid (Cockroachlabs)
  RoachFest 2024 comes to London for the first time ever! Cockroach Labs' leading event for data professionals is MC'd by Rob Reid -- catch t…
• CockroachDB's 10-Year Release: Vector Indexing, Performance, and More (Cockroachlabs)
  A few months ago Cockroach Labs turned 10, and this release celebrates 10 years of continuous distributed SQL innovation.
• Aurora DSQL is in preview (Cockroachlabs)
  At AWS re:Invent 2024, AWS announced the latest edition to their database offerings: Aurora DSQL, which is now in Preview.
• Be flexible and consistent: JSON comes to CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  With JSON support in CockroachDB, you can now use both structured and semi-structured data within the same database.
• What is a multi-cloud database, and how to deploy one (Cockroachlabs)
  Multi-cloud deployment can minimize latency and increase availability. Here's why more companies are going multi-cloud, and how to deploy y…
• The Bill Arrives: How to Manage Agentic AI Costs at Scale (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how to manage agentic AI costs at scale by reducing retries, controlling context, and improving infrastructure for better performance.
• How to export data with changefeeds (Cockroachlabs)
  You can migrate, move, and archive data with CockroachDB's CREATE CHANGEFEED statement, plus seed data into your application.
• How Hard Rock Digital built a highly available and compliant sports betting app (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how Hard Rock Digital has built a highly available and compliant sports betting application to serve users in different states with C…
• What is database contention, and why should you care? (Cockroachlabs)
  Here's what that means – and more importantly, how you can find it and fix it.
• What is change data capture? (Cockroachlabs)
  CockroachDB is an excellent system of record, but no technology exists in a vacuum. That's why we built our version of Change Data Capture,…
• Physical Cluster Replication: Your Disaster Recovery Plan (Cockroachlabs)
  Applications built on a traditional failover pattern with two data centers (and no access to a third on-prem or cloud region) used to face…
• Why Go was the right choice for CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  The first question many developers ask us is what our experience has been writing a distributed database in Go, a garbage-collected languag…
• Cockroach Labs #1 large company on Crain’s 2023 Best Places to Work (Cockroachlabs)
  Crain’s has ranked Cockroach Labs #1 in its 2023 Best Places to Work in New York City list.
• How Netflix engineers choose their tech stack (Cockroachlabs)
  Netflix runs CockroachDB as part of their persistence-as-a-service offering to improve the developer’s experience and increase productivity.
• Query plan caching in CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Since the 2.1 release, CockroachDB has had a cost-based optimizer. Rewriting a big component of an existing system is always challenging.
• CockroachDB beta passes Jepsen testing (Cockroachlabs)
  As we prepare for CockroachDB 1.0, we hired Kyle Kingsbury, the author of Jepsen, to review our tests and add more of his own.
• Tech trends and challenges in the retail industry (Cockroachlabs)
  Customers base their purchase decisions on item availability, price, and speed of delivery.
• Is high-performance storage worth it? (And more discoveries from the 2022 Cloud Report) (Cockroachlabs)
  Looking to get the best bang for your buck from one of the three public clouds? Here are more actionable insights from our 2022 Cloud Repor…
• A tale of two ports (Cockroachlabs)
  However, there is still one wrinkle in the fabric, and that's our use of network ports.
• Local and distributed query processing in CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  When a CockroachDB node receives a SQL query, this is approximately what happens: The pgwire module handles the communication with the clie…
• For high availability & low latency: Architect a globally distributed eCommerce system (Cockroachlabs)
  Then we will take a look at some best practices to building a highly available, global eCommerce system without adding operational complexi…
• Introducing the High Availability Architecture Guide (CockroachDB vs. Oracle) (Cockroachlabs)
  When IT experts consider high availability infrastructure for mission-critical services, their minds often leap to Oracle as the preeminent…
• How to dynamically map Azure managed identities to CockroachDB SQL users (Cockroachlabs)
  Here's how companies using Azure can allow access to CockroachDB for all approved users by dynamically mapping users in Azure Active Direct…
• CockroachDB on Kubernetes simplifies cloud-native deployments (Cockroachlabs)
  CockroachDB on Kubernetes and the open source Kubernetes Operator [available on GitHub and in the RedHat Marketplace] automate deployment,…
• How we celebrate Pride year-round at Cockroach Labs (Cockroachlabs)
  RoacherPride is a conglomerate of both members of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies who come together to socialize, discuss issues that aff…
• How we use rubrics for more equitable hiring (Cockroachlabs)
  Devonaire Ortiz, Recruiting Programs Manager at Cockroach Labs, details how we use interview rubrics to make hiring more equitable and buil…
• Why sharding is bad for business (Cockroachlabs)
  Sharding is a common solution for scaling up a traditional database that's reaching its functional limits.
• Why Multi-Region Application Architecture Matters (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how to turn a single-region application into a multi-region for performance, resilience and compliance.
• How to answer the question ‘when are we getting AI?’ without screaming inside (Cockroachlabs)
  The question comes at you in the hallways, the cafeteria, even the restroom: "Hey, when are WE getting AI???"?
• How we built scalable spatial data and spatial indexing in CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Support for spatial data and geospatial indexing is one of the most requested features in the history of CockroachDB.
• How to do a one-step MySQL import in CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  CockroachDB now supports importing MySQL database dump files: you can now import your data from the most popular open-source database to ou…
• The Halloween Problem: a spooky (and true) SQL story (Cockroachlabs)
  The Halloween Problem is a rare but scary issue that can haunt relational databases, mutating your data in unexpected ways if you're not ca…
• True Tales of Survival: Twenty Years of (Server) Solitude (Cockroachlabs)
  It has been sitting there, unpatched, unattended, but running — for the past twenty years.
• RBAC to the Future: Implementing Role-Based Access in GCP, AWS, and Azure (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how Cockroach Labs implements secure, scalable RBAC across AWS, GCP, and Azure — enabling just-in-time access to Kubernetes clusters…
• High availability without giving up consistency (Cockroachlabs)
  CockroachDB was so named because of its ability to survive failures.
• Kubernetes: The state of stateful apps (Cockroachlabs)
  Managing state in Kubernetes is difficult because the system’s dynamism is too chaotic for most databases to handle; especially SQL databas…
• What is SELECT FOR UPDATE in SQL (with examples)? (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how SELECT FOR UPDATE works in SQL, when to use row locking, and how it prevents conflicts in concurrent transactions.
• Build a Go App with upper/db and CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Build a Go app with upper/db and Cockroach! upper/db gives you tools for the most common operations with databases, and is now compatible w…
• Yields are Up, Latencies are Down: Goroutine Scheduling in CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how CockroachDB improves latency and CPU utilization with goroutine scheduling and elastic admission control for background workloads.
• Cockroach Labs raises $160M on $2B valuation, reflecting explosive growth and product innovation (Cockroachlabs)
  We are proud to announce a new round of funding at a milestone valuation, which recognizes our company’s rapid growth, happy customers, and…
• Improving application performance with Duplicate Indexes (Cockroachlabs)
  Duplicate Indexes improve application performance by allowing you to keep data close to users no matter where they are in the world.
• The Art of Data Residency and Application Architecture (Cockroachlabs)
  Both the API and CockroachDB have been deployed to AWS. The Next.js app has been deployed using Vercel.