Jim walker

A serverless database is any database that embodies the core principles of the serverless computing paradigm. This blog details what that means for developers.

A distributed SQL database scales easily, is strongly consistent, is resilient, geo-replicates data, speaks SQL, offers data locality, and is cloud neutral.

Let's unpack some of the architectural differences between PostgreSQL and CockroachDB to understand the challenges of the single server, single instance architecture.

Learn about the four key architectural differences between Google Cloud Spanner and CockroachDB. Both are distributed SQL, general-purpose databases built for the cloud.

When should you use a document store and when should you use a relational database? When is the consistency of SQL preferable to the ease of NoSQL? A comparison of the two in the modern era.

Over the past few years we have seen the emergence of a verifiably new and significant category of database: distributed SQL. What converging factors document that this is a genuine paradigm shift? Find out in our brand new report.

Gartner recently published the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems and Cockroach Labs has been included in it for the first time.

StatefulSets allow a wide array of stateful workloads to run on Kubernetes. This post covers how Stateful Sets fit with CockroachDB and Kubernetes, then jumps into a tutorial for running CockroachDB on Kubernetes.

Many databases claim to be "global." If you are evaluating products that promise global capabilities — like CockroachDB or Amazon Aurora — they should have these three requirements.

Virtual conferences meet the “virtual badge scan”: we will donate $3 to Women Who Code for every person who gives us their email address.

We attend and sponsor a lot of opinionated cloud shows each year and AWS re:Invent, Google Cloud Next and Microsoft Ignite have become the centers of discussion for all things cloud. And while each of these shows provides great content and an incredible range of speakers, we noticed that there was a lack of an un-opinionated conversation about multi-cloud or hybrid deployments.

Spencer Kimball, CEO of Cockroach Labs, discusses serverless databases and the future of application development in this livestream conversation with Jim Walker.

ACID is a core concept in a relational database. And while many claim to deliver ACID transactions it is important to dive a little deeper into the acronym to understand how it is delivered and what are the trade-offs of different database isolation levels.

Watch this livestream conversation to learn how to build a consistent, resilient architecture that can scale to process millions of financial transactions every day.

Join us for this free 1-hour webinar from GigaOm Research. The webinar features GigaOm analyst Andrew Brust and special guest Jim Walker from Cockroach Labs.

2020 Cloud Report follow-up: A chat with Google Cloud engineer Steve Deitz on practical guidance for getting the best performance from GCP.

join IBM and Cockroach Labs to learn why leading organizations are using Distributed SQL

Join us live as we provide a hands-on demo of CockroachDB and Kubernetes as well as show you how to get started with our CockroachDB Operator.

Join us live as we provide a hands-on demo of how to get started with CockroachDB and how to spin up your first cluster either on your laptop or in CockroachDB Dedicated.

Join us as we compare CockroachDB to Amazon Aurora to see which database truly is the best fit for all types of applications.

In this session, we will use CockroachDB to demonstrate how you can have a single logical database across these three clusters.

This webinar covers a hands-on demo of how to deploy a Python Flask + CockroachDB app on Kubernetes using Stateful including how to use persistent volumes and replica sets.

Join us for this free 1-hour webinar from GigaOm Research. The webinar features GigaOm analyst Andrew Brust and special guest Jim Walker from Cockroach Labs.

CockroachDB uses a slightly different, consolidated, distributed approach to the collection and maintenance of metadata around your service. We are doing this today for many successful and emerging companies.

Join us for a deep dive into the internals of CockroachDB, an open source, distributedSQL database.

This webinar will walk through the what and why of Distributed SQL and give examples of how organizations use it to simplify cloud applications and get reliable access to data.

Kelsey Hightower and Jim Walker do a live demo of CockroachDB Serverless then discuss the impact of a serverless database on the present and future of application development.

In this session, we will walk through and demo and an end-to-end experience using Google Cloud Run and CockroachDB Serverless to demonstrate the value of this new approach.

In this talk, we will walk through the concept of an active-active, always-on database that is rooted in the fundamental principles of distributed systems.

SpiceDB, built by Authzed, is an open source version of Zanzibar (the global authorization system). In this livestream we’ll discuss the architecture of SpiceDB.

In this webinar, we’ll cover how to best use CockroachDB's change data capture to provide efficient row-level change feeds in a distributed environment.

The founder of Heroic Labs shares how Heroic Labs built Nakama - the scalable, performant game server used by over 200K developers.

Senior Distributed Systems Engineer Justin Caballero from LaunchDarkly shares his experience with CockroachDB and how LaunchDarkly delivers some pretty stringent latency and availability requirements for their users.

Senior Software Engineer David Templin from Shipt talks about his real-world experience with building a distributed payment system on CockroachDB.

Starburst Data’s distributed analytics SaaS platform relies on Cockroach’s distributed SQL database for application telemetry. In this livestream we’ll discuss the unique database challenges of distributed SaaS applications.

Watch this hands-on demo of distributed applications and services running on CockroachDB and Kubernetes.

In this webinar, we will walk through how to get started with CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database, including guiding you through configuration details.

In this interview with Ultimate Tournament CTO Dan Goodman, we dig into how Ultimate Tournament built their modern betting application. We’ll cover how they marry high consistency with high concurrency, and why they chose CockroachDB.

We’ll walk through how to choose a topology pattern that matches your business needs and optimizes reliable, global access to your data.

Join the authors of two new reports by Cockroach Labs and Red Hat OpenShift, respectively, as they discuss the survey results that show a pragmatic snapshot of how organizations work with Kubernetes.

In this webinar, we’ll walk through why and how to deploy a Distributed SQL database on RedHat OpenShift. We’ll provide real-world examples of how organizations are using this new approach to simplify cloud applications.

In this session, we will be joined by fintech company Form3 to discuss how they reliably (and consistently) process millions of consistent financial transactions every day.

This talk is for developers who’ve dabbled in Serverless technologies and are looking to shorten the time between making their solution work and making it fast.