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• Database schema migration tools: Flyway and Liquibase + CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how to use the two most popular database schema migration tools (Flyway & Liquibase) with CockroachDB.
• Is Your Payment Infrastructure Ready for Agentic Payments? (Cockroachlabs)
  Agentic payments increase concurrency, retries, and dispute risk. Learn the database and architectural requirements needed to ensure ledger…
• 40x faster hash joiner with vectorized execution (Cockroachlabs)
  How we built a 40x faster hash joiner using vectorized execution.
• Semantic Search Using CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Semantic search is an important capability in AI applications, allowing for matches even when the words within a text-based search differ.
• CockroachDB 20.2 performs 40% better on TPC-C benchmark, passes 140k warehouses (Cockroachlabs)
  CockroachDB 20.2 performs 40% better on TPC-C, the industry-standard OLTP benchmark, passing 140K warehouses with a maximum throughput of 1…
• Critters in a jar: Running CockroachDB in a FreeBSD jail (Cockroachlabs)
  This is lighter weight and as secure as running Docker on FreeBSD.
• CockroachDB Redefines Database Performance with Real-World Testing (Cockroachlabs)
  For decades, database benchmarking has been stuck in the past. That’s why we’ve released a novel methodology for benchmarking modern databa…
• Antithesis of a One-in-a-Million Bug: Taming Demonic Nondeterminism (Cockroachlabs)
  With the help of Antithesis, a startup from the founders of FoundationDB, CockroachDB engineers were able to track down and reproduce a mos…
• How to build modern gaming services (Cockroachlabs)
  Building video game architecture that scales presents some unique challenges. Here's a blueprint that can help solve them.
• How retailers can achieve 2021 revenue resolutions with CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  As we settle into the New Year, we are eyeing the goals we need to achieve in the next 12 months.
• Multi-tenancy for SaaS: 6 Takeaways from a Senior Principal Cloud Architect (Cockroachlabs)
  Tod Golding, Senior Principal Cloud Architect and Global SaaS Tech Lead at AWS, has spent the last 7 years of his career focused on cloud-o…
• An electronics giant saved millions after migrating from MySQL to CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  How a major global electronics company upgraded their database by moving from MySQL to CockroachDB — and saved $700k in just the first year.
• Why we're switching to calendar versioning (Cockroachlabs)
  One small step for Cockroach Labs, one giant leap for our release numbering.
• Modernizing Database Authentication with SPIFFE and SPIRE (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how CockroachDB brings Zero Trust to database authentication with SAN-based identity mapping and native SPIFFE/SPIRE support—eliminat…
• AI Is a Systems Problem | Lessons from Cockroach Connect (Cockroachlabs)
  AI is moving into production, exposing limits in existing systems. Learn how leaders are rethinking infrastructure, data, and resilience fo…
• Don’t sell your soul to Amazon: Cloud applications and architectures for retail (Cockroachlabs)
  Access to cloud computing and distributed databases has democratized retail technology for every size org.
• Introducing Pebble: A RocksDB-inspired key-value store written in Go (Cockroachlabs)
  Reader’s Note: This post references CockroachDB Serverless and/or CockroachDB Dedicated which, as of September 26 2024, have been renamed a…
• Resilience Roadshow Recap: 4 Cities, Countless Convos on Building What’s Next (Cockroachlabs)
  Explore key insights from the 2025 Resilience Roadshow with AWS & CockroachDB. See how IT leaders are tackling data challenges and building…
• RoachFest Menlo Park Preview: A Data-Based Q&A with MC Chris Casano (Cockroachlabs)
  RoachFest 2024, a completely different data event, launches its three-city tour in Menlo Park on June 13.
• with GenAI Using CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Explore how CockroachDB supports GenAI with resilient vector search, embeddings, and distributed architecture — your gateway to unstructure…
• Not if, but when: The case for mainframe modernization (Cockroachlabs)
  In this blog, you'll learn a few reasons why CockroachDB customers believe leaving your mainframe behind for a distributed SQL solution is…
• > ALTER DATABASE FortiSASE SURVIVE REGION FAILURE: Migrating to CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  At RoachFest23, Fortinet Director of Software Development Louis Jia shared the story of FortiSASE’s migration from CockroachDB SH (self-hos…
• Kubernetes explained, via the 1997 blockbuster "Titanic" (Cockroachlabs)
  Titanic is a 1997 Oscar-winning film starring Leonard Di Caprio and Kate Winslet (who will from now on be referred to as K8 Winslet) in a l…
• How to Build Resilient GenAI and Agentic Apps with Intelligent Memory (Cockroachlabs)
  Discover how CockroachDB helps teams build resilient GenAI and agentic apps at scale. Learn key takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2025, includin…
• Why CockroachDB and PostgreSQL are compatible (Cockroachlabs)
  CockroachDB is PostgreSQL compatible in order to be accessible to an ecosystem of drivers, existing code, and developer knowledge.
• Why Fortune 50 banks are leaving traditional RDBMS for CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  The world's top banks are leaving the legacy RDBMS that have powered their workloads for, in some cases, decades.
• Building Unbreakable IAM Infrastructure for AI at Scale (Cockroachlabs)
  Discover 7 essential database capabilities for building resilient IAM infrastructure to support secure, always-on AI applications at scale.
• Outages Observer: Why True Resilience Means Never Going Down (Cockroachlabs)
  During the latest AWS outage, CockroachDB Cloud clusters stayed online. Learn why survivability, not recovery, defines the new scale metric…
• How to get zero-downtime scaling from single-region to multi-region applications (Cockroachlabs)
  Online Primary Key Changes allows you to upgrade your application from a single-region to multi-region with zero downtime.
• MOLT: A Toolkit for Migrations You Can Trust (Cockroachlabs)
  MOLT helps teams migrate from legacy databases to CockroachDB with confidence using schema conversion, bulk loading, live replication, and…
• Hard Rock Digital Solves Data Sovereignty with CockroachDB on AWS Outposts (Cockroachlabs)
  This blog covers some key lessons learned from the front lines building out a hybrid solution with AWS Outposts and CockroachDB for Hard Ro…
• For better performance, your database should work like a CDN (Cockroachlabs)
  Distributed database performance––both latency and uptime––can be dramatically improved with CDN-like multi-region deployments.
• Why DoorDash migrated from Aurora Postgres to CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Aurora Postgres makes scaling reads easy, but writes are limited to a single node, and that limitation took DoorDash's entire application o…
• Learn SQL the Jedi way (Cockroachlabs)
  To get better at programming, troubleshooting, and optimizing your code, even if you never touch a database.
• UNIwise delivers a frictionless experience for remote learners with Kubernetes and CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  This is the story of UNIwise, an education tech company, that powers an online testing platform for universities shut down during the pande…
• Automated alert and aggregation rule generation for CockroachDB metrics (Cockroachlabs)
  Any monitoring and debugging framework is incomplete without metrics. Here is our plan for building an automated alert and aggregation rule…
• Spiky Workloads in Retail: How to Rally Past the Rush (Cockroachlabs)
  Discover how to handle sudden retail traffic spikes with distributed SQL. Scale reliably, ensure availability, and thrive during viral surg…
• How distributed SQL databases solve scale in the healthcare industry (Cockroachlabs)
  Oracle has historically been the database for healthcare, but times have changed. Read why one healthcare provider is moving workloads to C…
• Use Cloud IAM Roles from your CockroachDB clusters (Cockroachlabs)
  When working with an OLTP database, customers’ data protection concerns manifest in different ways.
• Which GCP instances are best for OLTP workloads? (Cockroachlabs)
  When you test 36 different GCP instance configurations for OLTP performance and affordability, which options rise to the top of the pile?
• GCP Comes Out Swinging Against AWS and Azure in 2020 Cloud Report (Cockroachlabs)
  The 2020 Cloud Report compares AWS, GCP, and Azure on microbenchmarks and customer-like-workloads to understand performance tradeoffs withi…
• How to create an inclusive environment at a SaaS startup (Cockroachlabs)
  CREWS (Cockroach Employees Who Support) are our employee support groups, and one small part of how we create an inclusive environment at Co…
• Top 5 financial services use cases for CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  The team at Cockroach Labs has worked with dozens of companies (including Fortune 50 banks) that use CockroachDB to support the following i…
• RKO 2026: Unstoppable in Atlanta (Cockroachlabs)
  RKO 2026 brought CockcroachDB Roachers to Atlanta under the theme “Unstoppable,” featuring AI highlights, major announcements, team momentu…
• WTF is serverless, anyway? (Cockroachlabs)
  Seriously: what does "serverless" really mean, and what can it do for developers?
• 6 things startups can do to avoid tech debt (Cockroachlabs)
  If you cut too many corners, the mountain of problems you create for later could sink your startup.
• What are hash sharded indexes and why do they matter? (Cockroachlabs)
  How we built native support for hash sharded indexes in CockroachDB, which can significantly improve performance on sequential workloads.
• Scaling AI Agents: PostgreSQL vs CockroachDB Under High-Concurrency Workloads (Cockroachlabs)
  Explore AI agent workloads under high concurrency and how distributed databases sustain performance, resilience, and scale compared to sing…
• An experiment in fuzzy matching, using SQL, with CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  A recent tweet inspired me to address the need for fuzzy matching by combining some existing capabilities of CockroachDB.
• The Costs of Planned vs Unplanned Downtime (Cockroachlabs)
  The technical definition of downtime is “a period of time when technology services are unavailable to users”.