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• EMC and VMware exec Lorenzo Montesi joins Cockroach Labs as CFO (Cockroachlabs)
  We are thrilled that EMC and VMWare executive Lorenzo Montesi has joined Cockroach Labs as our Chief Financial Officer.
• Why multi-cloud: the 5 best reasons, according to experts (Cockroachlabs)
  There’s a lot of hype around multi-cloud, but that doesn’t mean adopting a multi-cloud architecture is right for everyone.
• Updating your engineering interview to make better hiring decisions (Cockroachlabs)
  In order to make better hiring decisions, focus on making the engineering interview process more reflective of real-world engineering.
• DIY Jepsen testing CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  We at Cockroach Labs absolutely love Aphyr's work. We are avid readers of the Jepsen series – which some know as high quality reviews of co…
• Multi-region architecture for new market expansion (Cockroachlabs)
  Operational resilience isn't the only good reason to consider multi-region deployments. For growing companies, they can make expanding into…
• Cloud Journeys: Getting to Hybrid with Distributed SQL (Cockroachlabs)
  To showcase how the cloud has worked for companies across the globe and across industries, we’re kicking off a new blog series: Cloud Journ…
• Database consistency models and isolation levels (Cockroachlabs)
  Database consistency models and isolation levels are often overlooked--but they have massive implications on security, performance, data co…
• RoachFest24 in Review: Recapping the Action at Menlo Park & London (Cockroachlabs)
  RoachFest is the leading data event, which just debuted internationally in London and Menlo Park.
• How CockroachDB’s AI Assistance Boosts Developer Productivity (Cockroachlabs)
  See how CockroachDB extends AI assistance from learning to building with AskAI and the Docs MCP Server, helping developers work faster with…
• And the Winners Are: Recapping the CockroachDB × AWS Hackathon - Build with Agentic Memory (Cockroachlabs)
  AI agents are moving fast from demos into production. They’re writing code, running pipelines, diagnosing incidents.
• Why distributed SQL is better for businesses in 2025 (Cockroachlabs)
  The world of business in 2025 demands more from data infrastructure than ever before. The days of centralized, monolithic databases are rap…
• Simplifying CockroachDB Backups to S3: A Guided Approach (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn two ways to back up CockroachDB—manually via AWS CLI or automated external connections to Amazon S3—to keep data secure and simplify…
• How LUSH optimized global inventory management with CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Lush has found lucrative logistical efficiencies after migrating from MySQL & Google Cloud Spanner to CockroachDB.
• Vehicle Search with SQL and Vector Embeddings (Cockroachlabs)
  Discover how CockroachDB powers image-based car search using SQL and vector embeddings. Explore a hands-on demo that combines Python, CLIP,…
• How to run a database in Kubernetes (Cockroachlabs)
  About 75 percent of container orchestration is done in Kubernetes. But the popularity of the k8s platform doesn’t mean it’s easy to use in…
• Core Banking Modernization with Temenos (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how core banking modernization with Temenos Core and CockroachDB delivers scalable, resilient transaction processing without manual d…
• The architecture of a distributed SQL database, part 1: Converting SQL to a KV store (Cockroachlabs)
  Is CockroachDB a distributed SQL database, or a distributed key value store? Learn about how the kv storage system in CockroachDB enables d…
• Why CockroachDB doesn't use EvalPlanQual (Cockroachlabs)
  Under READ COMMITTED isolation, PostgreSQL can sometimes miss rows when performing UPDATE, DELETE, SELECT FOR UPDATE, or SELECT FOR SHARE s…
• How to build an inventory management system that scales (with reference architecture) (Cockroachlabs)
  Here's a look at how to build modern inventory architecture based on real-world systems built by massive ecommerce companies.
• 8 database lessons you can learn from "Star Trek: TNG" (Cockroachlabs)
  The crew of the Enterprise was teaching us some important lessons about databases in modern app development, although they didn't realize i…
• CockroachDB 24.3: Enhanced resilience and a simplified self-service trial (Cockroachlabs)
  Finding the balance between resilience, scale, governance, and performance is hard – and that’s where Cockroach Labs excels.
• Global RoachFest Reflections: MC Chris Casano’s NYC Preview (Cockroachlabs)
  A Q&A with Cockroach Labs' Chris Casano, Senior Director of Customer Engineering - Americas, and the MC for RoachFest24 Menlo Park and NYC.
• How Nellis Auction Uses CockroachDB and Google Cloud to Achieve Scale and Reliability (Cockroachlabs)
  Delivering highly reliable services while scaling quickly is a challenge. Learn how this online auction company fueled rapid growth by part…
• Protected Timestamps: For a future with less garbage (Cockroachlabs)
  CockroachDB relies heavily on multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) to offer consistency guarantees.
• Future-Proofing Database Infrastructure: The Global RoachFest 2025 Recap (Cockroachlabs)
  Across three continents and hundreds of attendees, our biggest RoachFest yet united a global community of architects, engineers, and innova…
• How to handle early startup technical debt (or just avoid it entirely) (Cockroachlabs)
  In a seed-level startup, technical decisions often follow the path of least resistance. As your startup begins to find success however, you…
• What is CRDB? (Cockroachlabs)
  RDB is shorthand for CockroachDB: the scalable, consistently-replicated, distributed SQL database.
• A recipe for disaster recovery (including disaster prevention in practice) (Cockroachlabs)
  Downtime (and the thought of downtime) are among the endless reasons a Software Engineer may struggle to switch off.
• How Levven keeps your smart home on when the internet goes out (Cockroachlabs)
  Take a look at this IoT (smart electronics) use case in production on CockroachDB today — none of these electronics will ever go down like…
• How four fintech companies build for scale, availability, and consistency (Cockroachlabs)
  The fintech industry is extremely competitive and it's no longer acceptable to make tradeoffs when building your infrastructure.
• Managing the digital keys to the kingdom: how to achieve control over your IAM data (Cockroachlabs)
  Here we will discuss how you can achieve granular control over your IAM data in a distributed environment.
• Disk spilling in a vectorized execution engine (Cockroachlabs)
  Late last year, we shipped v1 of our vectorized execution engine. It enables column-based query execution and speeds up complex joins and a…
• A culture that evolves: Our values at Cockroach Labs (Cockroachlabs)
  Chelsea Lee, People Development Manager at Cockroach Labs, highlights the importance of developing company values that can change with your…
• Inside Cockroach Continuum: Elastic Database Architecture (Cockroachlabs)
  Explore how Cockroach Continuum uses disaggregated storage, virtual clusters, elastic SQL, and AI operations to power agent-driven database…
• Celebrating 12 Cameos from 50 Big Ideas in App Architecture (Cockroachlabs)
  We recently celebrated our 50th episode of our podcast, Big Ideas in App Architecture, featuring Dom Scandinaro, the CTO of Cameo.
• CockroachDB 25.3: PCI and HIPAA readiness on Azure, a new Kubernetes operator, improved Oracle (Cockroachlabs)
  Explore what’s new in CockroachDB 25.3: PCI & HIPAA readiness on Azure, a powerful new Kubernetes Operator, faster, safer Oracle migrations…
• Intro to multi-region distributed SQL topologies (Cockroachlabs)
  This blog walks through why topology patterns matter in CockroachDB, and how to select the one that works best for your use case.
• CockroachDB Selected to Join Google Distributed Cloud (Cockroachlabs)
  CockroachDB joins the Google Distributed Cloud, an air gapped solution built to serve public sector institutions and highly-regulated enter…
• The guy who wrote the book on CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Everyone here at Cockroach Labs is thrilled about the publication of our very own O’Reilly tome, CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide.
• Yugabyte vs. CockroachDB: Unpacking competitive benchmark claims (Cockroachlabs)
  Yugabyte frequently compares themselves to CockroachDB.
• Distributed spatial data in free, open source CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Spatial data types including GEOMETRY and GEOGRAPHY are now available for free in open source, distributed CockroachDB.
• SQL performance best practices: performance tuning to speed up your database (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how to optimize your relational database for better performance, including tuning queries, adding indexes, adjusting your schema, and…
• Mastering Physical Cluster Replication for Disaster Recovery with CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how to set up and monitor Physical Cluster Replication (PCR) in CockroachDB Cloud to ensure fast, resilient disaster recovery with lo…
• Mainframe to Distributed SQL, Part 5: Transitioning to a Distributed Architecture (Cockroachlabs)
  Discover strategies for transitioning to distributed architectures, migrating mainframe databases, and overcoming obstacles to modernize an…
• SSO to CockroachDB clusters using JWT (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how to SSO to CockroachDB clusters using Json Web Tokens (JWT).
• Consensus, made thrive (Cockroachlabs)
  If we abandoned our earthly constraints, how could we improve consensus algorithms? Specifically, what would it take to make them faster?
• Sharing screens: What's it like to be an engineer at Cockroach Labs (Cockroachlabs)
  With our team working from home these past months, we’ve had to think creatively on how to foster learning opportunities on our Engineering…
• Identity and Access Management (IAM): A Comprehensive Guide (Cockroachlabs)
  This article explores the foundational concepts of identity and access management (IAM), the architectural and operational demands of moder…
• RoachFest London 2026 Recap: AI, Databases, and Beyond (Cockroachlabs)
  Explore RoachFest London 2026 highlights, from AI agents and distributed SQL to customer stories shaping resilient infrastructure at scale.
• Time, TIMETZ, Timestamp, and TimestampTZ in PostgreSQL (Cockroachlabs)
  At Cockroach Labs, we’ve spent a lot of time getting our SQL semantics to match PostgreSQL as much as possible - all so that you can use th…