As we outlined in Deploy a Multi-Region Application in Just 3 Steps, we’ve made major changes to simplify the multi-region configuration in CockroachDB. The new abstractions allow users to think...
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The O'Reilly Certified Kubernetes Application Developer study guide goes in-depth on the topics you need to pass the CKAD exam. This two-chapter excerpt includes sample exercises.
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LaunchDarkly is laser-focused on helping the world’s best software development teams build better, safer, and faster. But in order to deliver on their promises to developers, they need to be backed by
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The 2021 Cloud Report stands on benchmarks. Now in its third year, our report is more precise than ever, capturing an evaluation of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure (Azure), and Google...
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In this livestream, we will wrap up the series with an investigation into how CAP Theorem works in a distributed system, specifically addressing "partition tolerance". Partition tolerance is the "P" i
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Before the dominance of the cloud, calculating the cost of a database was a pretty simple equation: software costs + hardware costs = database costs. If you chose an open source product, the...
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Optimal Systems came to CockroachDB with the best kind of problem: they had become too successful. Optimal was founded in 1991 to meet the European Space Agency’s need to archive its satellite...
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In this O'Reilly guide written by a distributed systems expert, learn how to build apps that scale to handle unpredictable traffic with zero downtime for customers.
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As an SRE on the CockroachDB Dedicated team, we have the unique challenge of monitoring and managing a fleet of CockroachDB clusters around the globe. Perhaps needless to say, as a distributed...
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Patterns and Anti-Patterns to Minimize Latencies and Eliminate Downtime. Learn how to eliminate outages and minimize transactional latency by placing data physically close to end users.
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CockroachDB comes with new easy-to-use SQL syntax for configuring a database across multiple regions. One of these SQL features is to declare a table to have the locality REGIONAL BY ROW, allowing...
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Imagine this: you work in system architecture for a multibillion-dollar consumer-facing business, and it’s the middle of a busy weekend. Suddenly, your database goes down. Transactions aren’t...
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In 2018, a team of CockroachDB engineers was testing features for the 2.1 release when they discovered something surprising. In repeated tests, AWS delivered 40% greater throughput than GCP...
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The 2021 Cloud Report compares AWS, Azure, and GCP on OLTP workloads. It runs over 1,000 microbenchmark tests to evaluate CPU, network, storage, and TPC-C performance.
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Movatic is a growth stage company in the mobility industry that deploys CockroachDB as its general-purpose database to handle Internet of Things workloads.
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Running a geographically distributed database has a lot of benefits. We see enterprise companies, startups, and students choose distributed dbs for reliability, scalability, and even security. But...
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Simulating a CockroachDB cluster can be an incredibly useful tool for testing, training, and development work. It's an easy process that you can perform directly on localhost using Docker. Today's...
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In this video we discuss some important concepts in distributed systems including, Geo-distributed Data, Data Residency, App Performance & Compliance. Whether data is distributed across a single regio
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Today's blog is a guest post by José Nieto, creator of upper/db. upper/db gives you tools for the most common operations with databases, and is now compatible with CockroachDB. upper/db is a data...
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In this session, we deliver a deep-dive exploration into the Architecture of a Distributed SQL Database. What is distributed sql? We answer that question in great detail in this blog (https://www.cock
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Since its inception, CockroachDB has relied on RocksDB as its key-value storage engine. The choice of RocksDB has served us well. RocksDB is battle tested, highly performant, and comes with a rich...
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In December 2019, we published the 2020 Cloud Report and an accompanying blog post, which summarized original research we conducted benchmarking the performance of Amazon Web Services (AWS),...
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Bose is building a platform as a service with CockroachDB and Kubernetes. Bose is a leading audio equipment design and development company.
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Innovative healthcare company migrates from Oracle to cloud-native CockroachDB for effortless scale, PostgreSQL compatibility, and the freedom to leverage multiple clouds.
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In this video tutorial Matt Vardi, a technical support engineer at Cockroach Labs, walks you through how to use a load balancer and explains how load balancing can improve the performance and resilien
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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 all scenarios. Kubernetes can have a steep learning...
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