Blog
Physical Cluster Replication: Your Disaster Recovery Plan
When you are an enterprise application owner, whether architect or operator, regional survivability is at the top of your list of must-have database features.
Michelle Gienow
January 29, 2024
Product
How to build an inventory management system that scales (with reference architecture)
One of the biggest technical challenges of inventory management is keeping data consistent in real time, or as close to it as possible. Particularly with larger operations, this is vital to avoid “overselling” scenarios that can cost the company money or damage its reputation.
Charlie Custer
January 25, 2024
How we stress test and benchmark CockroachDB for global scale
How do we know what our database is actually capable of? We test it. A lot. Here's a summary of some of the tests and benchmarks we run regularly to ensure CockroachDB is performant even at global scale.
Stan Rosenberg
January 25, 2024
Product
Top Three Reasons Behind Database Migrations
I recently moved into a new house. Boxes are everywhere. Little pieces of styrofoam surprise me everywhere I go. There are many noises I don’t recognize or understand. And the drill I’d forgotten I even owned now occupies a prime spot on my kitchen counter. I use it daily. I didn’t move to a new house because I thought moving would be fun, or even easy. I knew it would be a lot of work. I moved because my family needed more space. Which is just one of many reasons someone might decide to endure the pain of moving: Cost. Quality of life. Proximity to the people/places that are important to you.
Adam Storm
January 24, 2024
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