Your Database Should Work Like a CDN
Dealing with distributed database performance issues? Let's talk CDNs. Even though they're at different levels of your tech stack, distributed databases and content delivery networks often share a...
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Building Highly Available Architectures: Oracle vs CockroachDB
In this guide, we walk through what it takes to create the infrastructure for a highly available, widely distributed service using CockroachDB versus delivery of a similar capability using Oracle.
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A Brief History of High Availability
I once went to a website that had “hours of operation,” and was only “open” when its brick and mortar counterpart had its lights on. I felt perplexed and a little frustrated; computers are capable...
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High Availability Without Giving Up Consistency
If you’re reading this, you’re surely familiar with the arguments for high availability: services are only useful when they’re online. Unavailable services not only lose money, but also...
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What does GDPR compliance mean for my database?
Many inky, black pixels have been rendered over GDPR. It dramatically shifts the landscape for businesses with any EU users, so there are a lot of questions about what it means in general, as well...
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Kubernetes: Distributed Stateful Apps using CockroachDB
As recently as December 2017, running databases in Kubernetes was challenging––especially for mission-critical online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads whose databases require strong...
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Kubernetes: The State of Stateful Apps
Over the past year, Kubernetes––also known as K8s––has become a dominant topic of conversation in the infrastructure world. Given its pedigree of literally working at Google-scale, it makes sense...
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Is CockroachDB Good for Hackathons?
Hackathons are––for the uninitiated––a little insane, and HTN one of the craziest among them. 1,000 students from all across the globe (literally!) descend on Waterloo, Ontario for a...
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Roaches on Open Water! CockroachDB on DigitalOcean
If you’re a fan of DigitalOcean and its powerful but simple platform to deploy cloud-based infrastructure, you’ll appreciate CockroachDB: it’s similarly simple to deploy and provides your stack a...
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