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• Enhanced data security with CockroachDB and Satori (Cockroachlabs)
  How CockroachDB and Satori partnered to enhance data security for application developers.
• Babyface: A parental leave project (Cockroachlabs)
  On his recent parental leave, co-founder Ben Darnell built a side project to track his newborn's schedule via Fitbit.
• Availability and region failure: Joint consensus in CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  At Cockroach Labs, we write quite a bit about consensus algorithms. They are a critical component of CockroachDB and we rely on them in the…
• Conquering Downtime, Starbucks App Issues, Nasdaq Live: Cockroach Labs in the News, December 2024 (Cockroachlabs)
  Operational resilience continues to be a priority for enterprises, and Cockroach Labs made more headlines for insights in the recent survey…
• Acks-giving, or how we give thanks at Cockroach Labs (Cockroachlabs)
  Expressing gratitude and praise towards each other is deeply important to our culture. So we developed “peer acks”, our way of celebrating…
• What does GDPR compliance mean for my database? (Cockroachlabs)
  Many inky, black pixels have been rendered over GDPR. It dramatically shifts the landscape for businesses with any EU users, so there are a…
• How to reduce costs, improve uptime, and increase developer speed with distributed SQL (Cockroachlabs)
  For seven companies interviewed by Greenoaks Capital Partners, switching to CockroachDB resulted in annual savings of $0.5M to $8M, as well…
• From Legacy to Cloud-Native: 7 Lessons from Real Oracle Migrations (Cockroachlabs)
  In our recent webinar, “From Oracle to CockroachDB: Lessons from Real Migrations”, technical experts Rohan Joshi and Alistair Parry walked…
• Enriching log messages using Go contexts (Cockroachlabs)
  How do you ensure that the log messages contain enough information to be useful without encumbering the development of new code?
• Upsert in SQL: What is an upsert, and when should you use one? (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn what an SQL upsert is, how upsert syntax works in MySQL and PostgreSQL, and when to use UPSERT or INSERT ON CONFLICT in CockroachDB.
• [community post] Running CockroachDB on DC/OS (Cockroachlabs)
  This week, Mesosphere Developer and Cloud Advocate Michael Hausenblas made it his mission to run CockroachDB on DC/OS.
• How CockroachDB and IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 5 Power Resilient AI Infrastructure (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how CockroachDB and IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 5 deliver resilient AI infrastructure with distributed SQL, continuous availability, and…
• Mainframe to Distributed SQL, Part 1: Understanding Mainframe Database Architecture (Cockroachlabs)
  Next in the Mainframe Migration article series from Cockroach Labs, learn how mainframe data storage works, the architecture that powers tr…
• Cockroach Labs named #1 large company on Crain’s 2022 Best Places to Work (Cockroachlabs)
  Crain's has ranked Cockroach Labs #1 in the large companies category of its 2022 Best Places to Work in New York City list.
• Full text indexing and search in CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  CockroachDB is optimized for transactional workloads. So how does it handle analytic use cases like full text indexing and search?
• Message queuing and the database: Solving the dual write problem (Cockroachlabs)
  When you need to write the same data to two storage locations, such as the database and Kafka, how can you ensure consistency?
• From intern to full-time engineer at Cockroach Labs (Cockroachlabs)
  We’ve published blog posts about the work interns have done previously, as well as how we set our internship apart by offering equity.
• CockroachDB and Spring tutorials for Spring Data JDBC, JPA, and MyBatis (Cockroachlabs)
  Three new tutorials are available for CockroachDB and Spring data access patterns: Spring Data JDBC, Spring Data JPA, and MyBatis.
• Vector Search Meets Distributed SQL: A New Blueprint for AI-Ready Data (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how enterprises can power vector search without adding a new database. A new Intellyx report explores CockroachDB’s unified approach…
• The Fundamental Trade-offs in Distributed Databases (Cockroachlabs)
  Discover why distributed databases can’t offer low latency, strong consistency, and resilience all at once.
• Revisiting SQL typing in CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Adopting SQL had an unexpected consequence; it forced us to dabble in language design.
• Cloud-native Java-persistence layer using CockroachDB and Hibernate (Cockroachlabs)
  How we built a persistence layer with CockroachDB and Hibernate. CockroachDB's PostgreSQL compatibility made this a smooth experience.
• A Reference Architecture for a Global Reporting Platform (Cockroachlabs)
  Explore a reference architecture for a global reporting platform built on distributed SQL, enabling real-time reporting, archival lifecycle…
• How to lower p99 latency by geo-partitioning data (Cockroachlabs)
  By its very definition, distribution creates latency. Geo-partitioning your data in CockroachDB makes it easy to minimize that latency.
• 5 lessons from ESCAPE/19: The Multi-Cloud Conference (Cockroachlabs)
  If you had this exact same conference 3 or 4 years ago everyone would’ve been like, what Multi-Cloud?
• Lessons learned from 2+ years of nightly Jepsen tests (Cockroachlabs)
  After two years of nightly testing, we’ve come to learn the power and limitations of Jepsen as a testing tool.
• Join ordering, part II: The 'SQL' (Cockroachlabs)
  The topic of our story is the IKKBZ algorithm, and the heroes are Toshihide Ibaraki and Tiko Kameda.
• 3 ways to master stateful apps in Kubernetes (Cockroachlabs)
  There are three solution paths for organizations using Kubernetes to orchestrate stateful apps and a handful of factors that might help a d…
• From MySQL to CockroachDB: A Staged Production Migration (Cockroachlabs)
  See how Groww migrated a 2TB production workload from MySQL to CockroachDB with near-zero downtime using staged replication, validation, an…
• Why CockroachDB runs managed services on Kubernetes (Cockroachlabs)
  When the CockroachDB SRE team began building CockroachDB dedicated, they evaluated different automation and orchestration technologies -- i…
• Data Mesh: How Netflix moves and processes data from CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how Netflix moves and processes operational data from CockroachDB and other data stores.
• Why Agentic Applications Need Deterministic Foundations (Cockroachlabs)
  Building agentic applications introduces uncertainty by design. CockroachDB provides the deterministic foundation these AI systems need, un…
• What is a foreign key? (with SQL examples) (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn what foreign keys are, how they work, and why they're critical for building high-performance SQL databases.
• How to Benchmark and Tune Google Cloud (Cockroachlabs)
  Cloud tuning, performance, and benchmarking is no joke. This article digs into three tips for getting the most out of Google Cloud with adv…
• Distributed tracing and performance monitoring in CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  In distributed systems, query troubleshooting gets messy. And you don't always know why you're getting the performance that you're getting.
• Writing History: MVCC bulk ingestion and index backfills (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how CockroachDB built a new index backfiller using an MVCC-compliant approach.
• Why Agentic AI Needs a Distributed SQL Database (Cockroachlabs)
  Agentic AI systems demand strong consistency, high write concurrency, and resilience under failure.
• What does clarity of color have to do with a mission-critical database? (Cockroachlabs)
  Exploring clarity of color to design better experiences for mission-critical software, particularly through the building of the CockroachDB…
• Horizontal scaling - and why I’m grateful for CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  What's it like to manually shard and scale a Postgres database? Rob Reid shows the necessary steps to get it done -- and why he'll never do…
• Why these three fintech companies scaled with distributed SQL (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn why Groww, Global Payments, and Yubi chose CockroachDB to scale fintech platforms with consistent transactions, global resilience, an…
• Why AI scale is breaking systems built for humans (Cockroachlabs)
  AI workloads are always-on and machine-driven. Learn why 83% of leaders expect infrastructure failure—and how distributed SQL prepares syst…
• Superbet’s Cloud Migration Story: RoachFest24 Highlights (Cockroachlabs)
  In this highly regulated industry, data integrity, scalability, and multi-region capabilities are a must.
• Data cardinality in a distributed DB: Lessons from a betting app (Cockroachlabs)
  How can you get great performance out of your database when huge numbers of users are going to be submitting queries within the space of a…
• Database Evaluation Criteria for Payments Processing (Cockroachlabs)
  Businesses need fast, accurate, and always-available payment processing services. Here are the five most important criteria to consider for…
• Roacher Spotlight: Raydijah Walters is building a career in People Ops (Cockroachlabs)
  Raydijah Walters, People Systems Coordinator, shares the story of her transition from Recruiting to People Systems, leadership of Black@CRL…
• A great TypeScript database combo: TypeORM and CockroachDB (Cockroachlabs)
  Learn how to use TypeORM to set your TypeScript apps up with CockroachDB's free distributed cloud SQL database.
• PwC UK and Cockroach Labs: Accelerating Modernization and Reducing Regulatory Risk for Financial (Cockroachlabs)
  How does this strategic collaboration help enterprises reduce the risks, costs, and complexity of regulatory compliance and mainframe moder…
• Accelerating .NET Application Modernization: Cockroach Labs Teams Up With AWS (Cockroachlabs)
  Modernize .NET apps with Cockroach Labs & AWS. Harness AI-powered Amazon Q Developer & CockroachDB to accelerate resilient, scalable cloud…
• How CockroachDB Implements UDFs and SPs (Cockroachlabs)
  The SQL Queries team dives into how they implemented UDFs and stored procedures (SPs) in CockroachDB.
• Video Spotlight: “SQL and Database Essentials” (Cockroachlabs)
  Conquer SQL fear with Cockroach Labs’ quick “SQL & Database Essentials” videos—learn fundamentals, best practices, and accelerate your data…