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Banking & Fintech
CockroachDB Achieves AWS Financial Services Competency Status
The architectural benefits of cloud scalability and business agility are too crucial for organizations to ignore as they race to gain an advantage. Cockroach Labs is committed to leading this transformation: We are pleased to announce that we have achieved the AWS Financial Services Competency status, demonstrating CockroachDB’s success in delivering secure, scalable, and reliable database services for financial institutions.
David Weiss
July 10, 2024
Events
RoachFest24 in Review: Recapping the Action at Menlo Park & London
What would happen when RoachFest 2024 finally went global -- was the world ready? Were WE ready?? As the curtains came up in Menlo Park, and two weeks later in London, Planet Earth was poised to find out.
David Weiss
July 9, 2024
Engineering
Unlocking Enterprise Scale with CockroachDB on Microsoft Azure
Welcome to our new blog series, "Unlocking Enterprise Scale with CockroachDB on Microsoft Azure." We'll explore how CockroachDB, our cloud-native distributed SQL database, can be leveraged on Microsoft Azure to achieve unprecedented scalability, resilience, and performance for enterprise applications.
David Joy
June 27, 2024
Payments
Database Evaluation Criteria for Payments Processing
When building a large-scale and highly available payments processing application or service, what exactly do you need from your database?
Michelle Gienow
June 20, 2024
Events
Inside RoachFest 2024: London Preview with MC Rob Reid
Like a Stage II rocket, RoachFest 2024 is firing UP with the second of three events. Our next is poised to land in London on June 27th, marking the first-ever UK edition of Cockroach Labs’ leading event for application owners, data architects, database administrators, engineers, and operators.
David Weiss
June 17, 2024
AWS
Real-time Analytics on AWS Redshift with Continuous Ingestion from CockroachDB
In the modern data-driven landscape, the ability to efficiently migrate and synchronize data across various platforms is crucial for enterprises. This is particularly true when dealing with high-volume transactions that need to be analyzed for patterns and insights. Anyone can use CockroachDB, with its distributed SQL capabilities, together with AWS Redshift, a leading data warehousing solution by Amazon Web Services, to analyze data and develop insights that are critical for developing cloud native data pipelines.
David Joy
June 10, 2024
Payments Processing: High Availability Without the Asterisk
When any large enterprise application processes millions of events per day, it is inevitable that something will eventually break. This is why, in software development, Murphy’s law is famous for obvious reasons: whatever can go wrong will, at some point, actually go wrong.
Michelle Gienow
June 6, 2024
Engineering
Database Modernization
A Powerful Partnership: How Cockroach Labs and mLogica Accelerate Mainframe and Legacy Database Modernizations
Moving past mainframes is a big decision, but it’s the right choice for a growing number of enterprises. The agility and scalability of cloud architectures are proving too advantageous for organizations to ignore, as they race to gain a competitive edge.
David Weiss
June 6, 2024
SIGMOD & DaMoN 2024: Cockroach Labs Engineers Present “The Price of Privacy”
It’s important for Cockroach Labs engineers to not just work on our CockroachDB distributed SQL database, but also make regular contributions to the academic community.
David Weiss
June 5, 2024