Blog
Product
The New CockroachDB Cloud Platform: Powering Your Entire Application Lifecycle
We’re excited to introduce our latest addition to the CockroachDB Cloud database platform: the new Standard plan. The Standard plan delivers the perfect balance of cost efficiency, scalability, and security, completing our vision for an all-encompassing enterprise-grade cloud platform.
Lakshmi Kannan
September 27, 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.
Ray Austin
September 26, 2024
Database Modernization
Mainframe to Distributed SQL, An Introduction: What is a Mainframe?
This post is first in a series about Mainframe Migration from Cockroach Labs, exploring the fundamentals of mainframes and the evolution of today’s distributed database architecture.
Amine El Kouhen
September 17, 2024
Engineering
Software & Tech
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
Engineering
You Ran the Operational Database on What?! Testing Spot Instances
Testing large clusters is critical, but doing so at a scale that matches some of our largest customer environments can get costly. What if a totally different – and highly cost-effective -- approach to large cluster testing revealed itself? At Cockroach Labs we decided to take a non-traditional path, and things got very interesting.
Adam Storm
September 13, 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
Database Modernization
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
Engineering
Video Spotlight: “Chaos Testing – Behind CockroachDB’s Resilience”
Cockroach Labs’ Technical Evangelist Rob Reid just loves trying to break things, and our own cloud-native distributed SQL database is not immune from this impulse. He recently devoted screen time to pushing CockroachDB hard in tough conditions, just to watch it push back.
David Weiss
September 3, 2024