Blog
RoachFest Menlo Park Preview: A Data-Based Q&A with MC Chris Casano
The first phase of a RoachFest 2024 triple-play is almost here: On June 13th in Menlo Park, Cockroach Labs will host the leading event for application owners, data architects, database administrators, engineers, and operators.
David Weiss
June 4, 2024
Scale & Resilience
Cockroach Labs Named as a Customers' Choice in 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer report for 2nd time in a row
Cockroach Labs has received a major distinction for the second year in a row: We have been named a Customers’ Choice vendor in the 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ ‘Voice of the Customer’: Cloud Database Management Systems report. For the past two years, Cockroach Labs has demonstrated a sustained high level of enterprise adoption and satisfaction, as supported by our customers’ reviews.
David Weiss
May 31, 2024
RoachFest 2024 Announces Full Agenda for Menlo Park & London Events
Due to feedback and popular demand from attendees for a larger conference, RoachFest 2024 is tripling down. We’ve expanded to three cities across two continents, and the agendas for Menlo Park and London have been unveiled: Speakers from Netflix, Riskified, Route, Superbet and more will headline Cockroach Labs’ popular database user conference series, sharing their tips, tricks, and success stories for providing always-on customer experiences.
David Weiss
May 22, 2024
Introducing CockroachDB 24.1: Fully Managed, Enterprise Database Experience, Streamlined App Development, Even Better Resilience
It’s an always-on world: Today’s enterprises know better data management is key to staying connected to their customers, who expect their applications to work perfectly – every time.
David Weiss
May 21, 2024
Engineering
Admission Control in CockroachDB: How It Protects Against Unexpected Overload
Admission control is the system in CockroachDB that prioritizes work during different types of node overload. In a properly sized cluster, where the work does not exceed the resource capacity, all work proceeds uninterrupted and effectively receives equal priority.
Jon St. John
May 14, 2024
Integrate CockroachDB with Confluent Cloud using Change Data Capture
CockroachDB v23.2 now seamlessly integrates with Confluent, using change data capture so users can connect the CRDB's distributed SQL capabilities with the real-time event streaming features of Confluent.
Abbey Russell
May 10, 2024
System
How to build a payments system that scales to infinity (with examples)
Everybody, from banking applications to retailers to SaaS applications, deals with payment processing. But architecting a system that can deal with payments at scale is challenging.
Charlie Custer
May 8, 2024
Product
From Resilience to Scale: 12 Mission-Critical Use Cases Backed by CockroachDB
If you’ve paid a bill online, ordered an item from your favorite ecommerce site, or navigated a series of security steps to verify your identity, then you’ve interacted with the types of services powered by CockroachDB. Let's discuss 12 common use cases for CockroachDB.
Cassie McAllister
May 7, 2024
Scale & Resilience
Horizontal Scaling - and Why I’m Grateful for CockroachDB
I’ve long extolled the benefits of CockroachDB and its ability to horizontally scale for reads and writes. I’ll frequently contrast it with databases that require their users to manually shard in order to achieve scale. To avoid being disingenuous, I decided to put my money where my mouth is and give it a go myself.
Rob Reid
May 2, 2024