Scale & Resilience
Cloud Journeys: Multi-Cloud and Beyond with Distributed SQL
Today, businesses are increasingly investing in multi-cloud strategies as a part of data modernization to enhance resilience, scalability, and operational efficiency. In the final installment of our series on Cloud Journeys with Distributed SQL, this blog post explores the benefits of working with CockroachDB to achieve multi-cloud.
Becca Weng
November 12, 2024
Scale & Resilience
Cloud Journeys: Getting to Multi-Region with Distributed SQL
While the first phase of cloud adoption involves deploying applications across region specific data centers or availability zones, the second phase of cloud adoption involves deploying data infrastructure across multiple regions to support global applications that require low-latency connectivity and redundancy across large geographical areas.
Becca Weng
October 31, 2024
Scale & Resilience
Engineering
A Conversation with Peter Mattis: Inherent Resilience for Tomorrow’s Outage
In our recent webinar, Peter Mattis, CTO and CPO at Cockroach Labs, and Rob Reid, Technical Evangelist at Cockroach Labs, shared expertise on the critical aspects of building resilient systems and the profound impact of downtime on modern businesses. Throughout the conversation, they shared lessons from their careers, insights from working with customers, and fielded questions from the audience.
Becca Weng
October 22, 2024
Scale & Resilience
Cloud Journeys: Getting to Hybrid with Distributed SQL
To showcase how the cloud has worked for companies across the globe and across industries, we’re kicking off a new blog series: Cloud Journeys with Distributed SQL. In this first post we will share some stories of how enterprises have moved from on-premise legacy database solutions to hybrid or single region cloud deployments by leveraging our distributed SQL database, CockroachDB.
Becca Weng
October 15, 2024
AI/ML
Scale & Resilience
Celebrating 12 Cameos from 50 Big Ideas in App Architecture
Each week, listeners can tune into Big Ideas in App Architecture, our podcast for architects and engineers who are building modern, data-intensive applications and systems. To honor the 50th episode release, and all the guests who have shared their insights and experiences with us along the way, we’re looking back at 12 of our most popular episodes spanning topics like navigating industry changes, building efficient engineering organizations, tackling the new world of AI, and building reliable, distributed systems.
Becca Weng
October 4, 2024
Events
Product
New Product Announcements Kick Off RoachFest 2024
During RoachFest NYC we unveiled new product capabilities to meet the evolving challenges of the data landscape – as industries move towards more cloud and AI-driven solutions.
Becca Weng
September 26, 2024
Engineering
SaaS
Multi-tenancy for SaaS: 6 Takeaways from a Senior Principal Cloud Architect
Tod Golding, Senior Principal Cloud Architect and Global SaaS Tech Lead at AWS, has spent the last 7 years of his career focused on cloud-optimized architecture design. He joined Cockroach Labs’ Technical Evangelist, Rob Reid, for a conversation on "Debunking Myths around Multi-Tenancy."
Becca Weng
September 16, 2024
Events
Global RoachFest Reflections: MC Chris Casano’s NYC Preview
In just 2 weeks we’ll be capping off RoachFest24 in our hometown – New York, NY on September 26. There is so much to look forward to, starting with our incredible headliners including Estée Lauder, Microsoft, and Global Payments.
Becca Weng
September 10, 2024
Events
Postgres Overhaul: Riskified’s Database Scaling Insights at RoachFest24
A highlight of RoachFest24 in London: the dynamic talk by Riskified’s Harel Safra, Data Platform Engineering Team Lead, and Yoav Shemesh, Senior Data Platform Engineer, on database best practices for eCommerce.
Becca Weng
September 9, 2024
Events
A Netflix RoachFest24 Original: The Case for Multi-Region Clusters
This year, we were so grateful to the Netflix team for hitting the stage again after their tremendous premiere in 2022. Four years into their adoption of CockroachDB, Netflix’s team shared many learnings about the best optimizations and configurations that help their clients, internal Netflix developers, meet their goals. The pioneering streaming service has developed a mature platform providing databases-as-a-service to hundreds of Netflix developers and continues building out even more efficient strategies.
Becca Weng
September 4, 2024