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True Tales of Survival: Saving your data center with a bucket brigade
True story: It's October, 2012. A company decommissions its DR facility. Days later, Superstorm Sandy hits. You won't believe what happens next!
Michelle Gienow
November 30, 2023
The best cloud strategy? Crawl, walk, run.
Running a legacy RDBMS on-prem but dreaming of multi-cloud distributed SQL? It can become reality – but only if you approach the project in the right way.
Charlie Custer
November 29, 2023
Why DoorDash migrated from Aurora Postgres to CockroachDB
Aurora Postgres makes scaling reads easy, but writes are limited to a single node, and that limitation took DoorDash's entire application offline for hours.
Charlie Custer
November 28, 2023
Product
The history of databases at Netflix: From Cassandra to CockroachDB
In 2008, after Netflix pivoted from DVD-by-mail to streaming, they were running the streaming service on premise and suffered a 3-day outage. That was the beginning of their move to the cloud. First they moved to AWS. Then, in 2014, they adopted (and popularized!) Cassandra to support their need for global replication. In this two-part presentation, Netflix Senior Software Engineers Shengwei Wang and Shahar Zimmerman explain why Netflix has adopted CockroachDB and how they’re deploying it.
Dan Kelly
November 27, 2023
Company
How Starburst builds highly available global applications with low read latency
Delivering low latency across regions is a hard problem to solve. Maintaining high availability when an application is spread out all over the world is also hard. Starburst is only a five-year-old company but they’re already handling exabytes of scale across a five-region deployment; keeping read-latencies low everywhere.
Dan Kelly
November 22, 2023
How a sportsbetting and iCasino meets strict regulatory requirements with CockroachDB & AWS Outposts
Architects from Hard Rock Digital shares their journey building a sportsbetting and iCasino that can quickly enter new markets with CockroachDB and AWS Outposts.
Michelle Gienow
November 21, 2023
> ALTER DATABASE FortiSASE SURVIVE REGION FAILURE: Migrating to CockroachDB
At RoachFest23, Fortinet Director of Software Development Louis Jia shared the story of FortiSASE’s migration from CockroachDB SH (self-hosted) to CockroachDB managed services.
Michelle Gienow
November 15, 2023
Multi-cloud demystified: pros, cons, and considerations according to the experts
Multi-cloud is not easy. Dig into our free report on the current state of multi-cloud, which contains expert advice from on-the-ground experts on pitfalls to avoid, best practices, and more.
Charlie Custer
November 14, 2023
Executing SQL queries from the browser
We just released our Browser SQL Shell, which allows writing queries on CockroachDB within seconds of cluster creation.
Lasse Nordahl
November 9, 2023
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