Blog
How one company is beating the cloud giants at their own game
Cloud storage with enterprise-grade availability, durability, and performance – all for less than what the major CSPs charge? It's possible. Here's how.
Charlie Custer
January 23, 2024
Inside CockroachDB 23.2: Stored procedures, UDFs, READ COMMITTED, and live migrations
CockroachDB 23.2 includes stored procedures/UDFs, performance boosts with smarter data distribution, physical replication, expedited recovery from cloud failures, and Read Committed isolation.
Michelle Gienow
January 18, 2024
Big Ideas: Top Ten Tips for App Builders in 2024
Michelle Gienow
January 17, 2024
What is cloud SQL, and which cloud SQL database is right for you?
What is cloud SQL? For that matter, what is Cloud SQL, and is it different from cloud SQL? Let's get to the bottom of this important but somewhat confusing (thanks, Google!) term.
Charlie Custer
January 16, 2024
PostgreSQL data types: what are they, and when to use each
Let's take a look at the most commonly-used data types in Postgres and how they're used in practice, including examples.
Charlie Custer
January 12, 2024
True Tales of Survival: The $500 million dollar typo
It's amazing how a series of small but unfortunate events can quickly add up to one very expensive problem. Like the time one person fat-fingered the wrong year on a mainframe JCL job, Ronald Reagan died, and the US postal service lost $500 million.
Michelle Gienow
January 11, 2024
Product
RPO and RTO: getting to zero downtime and zero data loss
Companies are increasingly chasing zero-RPO and zero-RTO solutions to ensure that their applications remain online no matter what. And it’s easy to see why: according to 2020 research from Gartner the average cost of IT downtime is $5,600 per minute.
Diana Hsieh
January 5, 2024
How Shopmonkey Built a Geo-Aware Auto Care Platform
At RoachFest '23, Shopmonkey Chief Technical Officer Jeff Haynie spoke about the compelling reasons the company moved their core business from Mongo to CockroachDB, and the architectural innovations they implemented to take advantage of CockroachDB’s unique multi-region capabilities.
Michelle Gienow
January 3, 2024