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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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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For a significant part of our history, CockroachDB used the dep vendoring tool for managing package dependencies. Go modules have been widely available since Go 1.11, and with Go 1.14 heavily...
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When we shared a post a few weeks back about why we chose Go for CockroachDB, we received a number of questions about how we deal with some of Go’s known issues, specifically those related to...
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The first question many developers ask us is what our experience has been writing a distributed database in Go, a garbage-collected language. JVM garbage collection is notoriously expensive, so...
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This blog post was originally published on the author's personal blog. Overview I built some tooling to extract details about the contents of a Go executable file, and a small D3 application to...
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GORM is a developer-friendly ORM library for dealing with relational databases--including CockroachDB. As a Go shop ourselves, we’re really excited to enable Go developers to access the power of...
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CockroachDB aims to bring the best aspects of Google's next generation database, Spanner, to the rest of the world via open source. Databases should scale horizontally with minimum fuss, survive disas
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Until recently, CockroachDB’s SQL was suffering from a serious, long-standing bug – a schrödinbug, in fact – in its handling of table and column references. This blog post outlines how fuzz...
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Cgo is a pretty important part of Go: It’s your window to calling anything that isn’t Go (or, more precisely, anything that has C bindings). For CockroachDB, cgo lets us delegate a lot of the...
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Rounding in Go is hard to do correctly. That is, given a float64, truncate the fractional part (anything right of the decimal point), and add one to the truncated value if the fractional part was...
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With the release of CockroachDB beta-20170223, we’d like to announce a new arbitrary-precision decimal package for Go: apd. This package replaces the underlying implementation of the DECIMAL type...
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Building a complex system requires writing and debugging many tests. Developer tests that can be run without any infrastructure or configuration are crucial for allowing fast-paced development...
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Reading time: 9 minutes Writing good tests is tricky when the system has a lot of moving parts. When using Go’s testing infrastructure, tests that involve multiple modules can cause dependency...
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