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Banking resilience at global scale with Distributed SQL

Why and how Fortune 500 financial service companies use Distributed SQL to grow their business, eliminate risks, optimize costs, and ensure an ideal customer experience

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The journey of CockroachDB in Netflix

In this presentation, two Netflix engineers explain the journey of their adoption of CockroachDB.

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Survival Guide for Engineers

Download this free guide with expert advice for surviving oft-encountered (and off-the-wall) scenarios you might come across when building modern applications.

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Scale & Resilience

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Survival Guide for Engineers

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O'Reilly | Architecting Distributed Transactional Applications (Free guide)

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From outage to uptime: Shipt's journey to CockroachDB

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How to build a payments system that scales to infinity (with examples)

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How DoorDash manages 1.2M QPS & 1.9PB of data with CockroachDB

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Technical takeaways from the Taylor Swift/Ticketmaster meltdown

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Comparing CockroachDB and PostgreSQL

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Why sharding is bad for business

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Vertical vs. horizontal scaling: what’s the difference and which is better?

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Flexible and correct Identity Access Management

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How Devsisters made uptime a core requirement for their games

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How we built a serverless SQL database

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How a high-availability database empowers Mux to scale video

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Can I scale fast? Reliably? Globally?

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Selecting a startup stack for scale

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Free O'Reilly report on distributed SQL databases

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Risk vs. reward: Real money gambling application architecture

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DASH: How to evaluate Kubernetes-native databases

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How retailers can achieve 2021 revenue resolutions with CockroachDB

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Bose is building databases on demand with Elastic, CockroachDB, and Kubernetes

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What does GDPR compliance mean for my database?

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A Brief History of Databases

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ACID Transactions

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ACID: Isolation, Transactions and what can go wrong with your data

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Architecture of a serverless sql database | Serverless database use case

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Basics of Distributed SQL Architecture | Why CockroachDB fits k8s

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Can a French teacher with no tech experience spin up a CockroachDB Serverless cluster?

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Cluster Concepts: The Keyspace, Ranges and Replicas

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CockroachDB: A True Distributed SQL Database

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Comparing PostgreSQL with CockroachDB

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Database Performance and Cost | How CockroachDB is like an airplane

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Database Race: Setting up CockroachDB Serverless vs. cooking ramen!

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Event-Driven Architecture Lecture [02] - Transactional Outbox Pattern

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Founders' Series: Architecture of a Distributed Database with Peter Mattis, CTO

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Getting started with CockroachDB Serverless (2022)

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How a Serverless Database Works | Featuring CockroachDB Serverless

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How Amazon Aurora Works | Amazon Aurora Architecture | Cloud Database Architecture

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How Hard Rock Digital achieves performance goals with CockroachDB

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How startups should choose their tech stack| Avoid success disasters

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How to Create Tables with Foreign Keys in SQL

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How to reduce latency with Connection Pools

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How to scale a database without sharding

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Nightfall.ai shines light on choosing a startup tech stack

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One Database Can Do it All? | How Nightfall uses CockroachDB

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Serverless SQL: The future of database technology

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SQL indexing best practices | How to make your database FASTER!

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The Future of Databases: Distributed SQL

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Three different use cases for CockroachDB at Twitter

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What is a Foreign Key Constraint? Understanding Primary & Foreign Keys

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What is a serverless database? (in under 3 minutes)

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When to use Cassandra vs. CockroachDB

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Why use Change Data Capture | Batch Data vs Streaming Data

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A Serverless Database for the Future of Application Development

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How to build a payments system that scales to infinity

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Scaling PostgreSQL: Never Shard Again and Gain Effortless Scale

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Performance

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Here's how CockroachDB keeps your database from collapsing under load

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How to troubleshoot and optimize query performance in CockroachDB

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How to optimize write latency for global tables in CockroachDB

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How to lower p99 latency by geo-partitioning data

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SQL performance best practices: performance tuning to speed up your database

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How to optimize garbage collection in Go

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For better performance, your database should work like a CDN

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Performance goals for mission-critical workloads

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Performance Benefits of NOT NULL Constraints on Foreign Key Reference Columns

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How to troubleshoot and optimize query performance in CockroachDB

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Increase query speed with Forward Indexes on JSON columns

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Introducing CockroachDB dedicated on Azure, on-demand global clusters, & more

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An epic read on follower reads

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High-performance JSON parsing in Go

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Rubbing control theory on the Go scheduler

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How to optimize write latency for global tables in CockroachDB

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SQL index best practices for performance: 3 rules for better SQL indexes

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5 reasons to build multi-region application architecture

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How to lower p99 latency by geo-partitioning data

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How to use indexes for better workload performance

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SQL query tuning with DB Console

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SQL vs. NoSQL: Which is right for your workload?

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Here's how CockroachDB keeps your database from collapsing under load

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CockroachDB Admission Control? Yes, please!

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3 basic rules for choosing indexes

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Java and AWS Lambda: Best of frenemies?

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Stan Rosenberg: Driving quality with Test Engineering

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How to improve application performance using data location

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What is connection pooling, and why should you care

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DASH: How to evaluate Kubernetes-native databases

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DBmarlin helps CockroachDB customers optimize performance

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How to encrypt specific database tables with CockroachDB

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How to improve query performance of your apps [Free course]

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CockroachDB 20.2 performs 40% better on TPC-C benchmark, passes 140k warehouses

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Faster bulk-data loading in CockroachDB

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AWS, Azure, and GCP respond to the 2020 Cloud Report

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GCP comes out swinging against AWS and Azure in 2020 Cloud Report

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CockroachDB vs. Aurora: Who passes TPC-C at 100k warehouses?

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Why we're switching to calendar versioning

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Introducing the High Availability Architecture Guide (CockroachDB vs. Oracle)

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Reproduction steps now available for the 2018 Cloud Report

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40x faster hash joiner with vectorized execution

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How Pipelining consensus writes speeds up distributed SQL transactions

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AWS outperforms GCP in the 2018 Cloud Report

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CockroachDB 2.1 is now 50x more scalable than Amazon Aurora

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CockroachDB 2.1: Easier migrations and a 5x scalability improvement

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CockroachDB is 10x more scalable than Amazon Aurora for OLTP workloads

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CockroachDB 2.0 has arrived!

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CockroachDB 2.0 performance makes significant strides

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How to improve IoT application performance with multi-row DML

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Using “follow-the-workload” to beat the latency-survivability tradeoff in CockroachDB

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CockroachDB 1.1 released: Production made easy

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Real transactions are serializable

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CockroachDB stability post-mortem: From 1 node to 100 nodes

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Memory usage in CockroachDB

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Implementing column families in CockroachDB

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Adventures in performance debugging

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The cost and complexity of Cgo

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video

Database Performance and Cost | How CockroachDB is like an airplane

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How startups should choose their tech stack| Avoid success disasters

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One Database Can Do it All? | How Nightfall uses CockroachDB

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The Future of Data | How the database fits in modern data architecture

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webinar

Database Performance Tuning: Best Practices & Pitfalls

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The Cockroach Hour: Why the Speed of Light is too Slow

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webinar

What We’ve Learned From Benchmarking AWS, Azure, and Google

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Case Studies

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The journey of CockroachDB in Netflix

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How 5 fintech companies build for scale, availability, and consistency

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roachfest

CockroachDB @Twitter

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customer

Reach for the stars: Eliminating data silos for distributed workloads

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How Starburst supports exabytes of data and replicates metadata globally

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How Nightfall.ai simplified their architecture for metadata storage

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A sports betting app saved millions switching from PostgreSQL to CockroachDB

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The history of databases at Netflix: From Cassandra to CockroachDB

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RoachFest Recap: DoorDash, City Storage Systems, Booking.com, Santander, and more shared their CockroachDB journeys

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Building a resilient order management system at scale with GCP

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How 5 fintech companies build for scale, availability, and consistency

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How Netflix engineers choose their tech stack

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Salto Systems: Highly available access management technology

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Flexible and correct Identity Access Management

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How Hard Rock Digital built a highly available and compliant sports betting app

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Global payments orchestration platform architecture

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How Devsisters made uptime a core requirement for their games

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How Shipt built a distributed payments system from the ground up

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Build agile online payments across regions with a distributed platform

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How Netflix builds the infrastructure to stream on every device

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How Form3 is building unkillable payment infrastructure

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How a high-availability database empowers Mux to scale video

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How to choose the right metadata store

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Why switch from Cassandra to CockroachDB

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Fast blockchain transactions for Bitski's NFT marketplace

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Data cardinality in a distributed DB: Lessons from a betting app

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Why Mythical Games built a blockchain gaming infrastructure on CockroachDB

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How LUSH optimized global inventory management with CockroachDB

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How TreesPlease Games builds gaming infra with CockroachDB Serverless

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Optimize a distributed DB for game developers: Tips from Heroic Labs

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How to do a Postgres database migration: Tips from LaunchDarkly

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Choosing a MySQL alternative to build HA product inventory

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Brazil's Nubank uses CockroachDB for application resiliency and scale

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How to store billions of files with CockroachDB and Kubernetes

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How they survived a database outage: 3 companies share stories

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Building better IAM with a scale-out, OLTP database

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Fueling the startup economy: Crowdfunding on a transaction-oriented system

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Aurora builds payment acquiring solution with CockroachDB on Kubernetes

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How Levven keeps your smart home on when the internet goes out

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Contact tracing COVID-19 with an open source app built on CockroachDB

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UNIwise delivers a frictionless experience for remote learners with Kubernetes and CockroachDB

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Global financial data firm's database migration from Oracle to CockroachDB

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How retailers can achieve 2021 revenue resolutions with CockroachDB

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Why a major cable company switched from Amazon Aurora to CockroachDB

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JPMorgan Chase honors Cockroach Labs for innovation and partnership

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How MyMahi built a scalable, serverless backend using CockroachDB and AWS Lambda

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Why TuneGO chose CockroachDB over PostgreSQL

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How distributed SQL databases solve scale in the healthcare industry

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How Education First increased developer efficiency with CockroachDB Dedicated

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Kindred Futures and Cockroach Labs partner to build next-generation global online gaming platform

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Avoid vendor lock-in risk with multi-cloud deployments

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Building a Highly Scalable, Resilient and Performant Retail eCommerce Platform with the Hut Group

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CockroachDB at DoorDash | RoachFest 2022

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How Booksy builds resilient architecture

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How Hard Rock Digital achieves performance goals with CockroachDB

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How Starburst Data Withstands any Outage with a Multi-Region Application Built on CockroachDB

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How Starburst uses CockroachDB to power Starburst Galaxy

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Identity Management with Authzed and CockroachDB | RoachFest 2022

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Kubernetes & CockroachDB for audit logging at Iterable | RoachFest 2022

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Nightfall.ai shines light on choosing a startup tech stack

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One Database Can Do it All? | How Nightfall uses CockroachDB

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What is LaunchDarkly? | How to build apps with LaunchDarkly

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Why LUSH migrated from Google Spanner to CockroachDB

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CockroachDB Engineering

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How we built a serverless SQL database

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Why CockroachDB and PostgreSQL are compatible

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guide

SIGMOD 2020 | CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database

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Here's how CockroachDB keeps your database from collapsing under load

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Why CockroachDB doesn't use EvalPlanQual

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Antithesis of a One-in-a-Million Bug: Taming Demonic Nondeterminism

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Isolation levels without the anomaly table

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How we stress test and benchmark CockroachDB for global scale

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Integrate CockroachDB with Confluent Cloud using Change Data Capture

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Executing SQL queries from the browser

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How online schema changes are possible in CockroachDB

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Raft is so fetch: The Raft Consensus Algorithm explained through "Mean Girls"

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sqlfmt: A free online SQL formatter for writing prettier SQL

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Why Go was the right choice for CockroachDB

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How to optimize garbage collection in Go

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Time, TIMETZ, Timestamp, and TimestampTZ in PostgreSQL

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3 common foreign key mistakes (and how to avoid them)

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Performance Benefits of NOT NULL Constraints on Foreign Key Reference Columns

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How to troubleshoot and optimize query performance in CockroachDB

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What is a foreign key? (with SQL examples)

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The importance of being earnestly random: Metamorphic Testing in CockroachDB

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What is change data capture?

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Database schema: SQL schema examples and best practices

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High-performance JSON parsing in Go

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Protected Timestamps: For a future with less garbage

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Writing History: MVCC range tombstones

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Writing History: MVCC bulk ingestion and index backfills

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Writing History: How we rebuilt bulk operations to preserve a history of changes

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How to optimize write latency for global tables in CockroachDB

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Why CockroachDB runs managed services on Kubernetes

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How we built a serverless SQL database

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CockroachDB Serverless is generally available and more product updates

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How to build a serverless polling application

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Why I joined Cockroach Labs (and why I’ve stayed)

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VLDB 2022: CockroachDB engineers present "A Demonstration of Multi-Region CockroachDB"

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How to use indexes for better workload performance

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SQL query tuning with DB Console

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Back from the future: Global Tables in CockroachDB

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The OpenTelemetry Collector as a platform for monitoring integrations

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Here's how CockroachDB keeps your database from collapsing under load

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SIGMOD 2022: Enabling the next generation of multi-region applications with CockroachDB

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Interactive demo of CockroachDB using D3

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How CockroachDB operates serverless clusters with Kubernetes

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The guy who wrote the book on CockroachDB

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What are the limits of the CAP theorem?

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3 basic rules for choosing indexes

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An experiment in fuzzy matching, using SQL, with CockroachDB

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Java and AWS Lambda: Best of frenemies?

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What write skew looks like

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Stan Rosenberg: Driving quality with Test Engineering

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Why CockroachDB and PostgreSQL are compatible

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Living without atomic clocks: Where CockroachDB and Spanner diverge

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How to run CockroachDB on Kubernetes

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How to do a Postgres database migration: Tips from LaunchDarkly

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3 ways to master stateful apps in Kubernetes

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How to identify and tune a problematic query with SQL EXPLAIN

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How to encrypt specific database tables with CockroachDB

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Survive region outages with CockroachDB: Because sh*t happens

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How to build logging for a distributed database: Splunk vs. ELK vs. BYO

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How we built easy row-level data homing in CockroachDB with REGIONAL BY ROW

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Retraction: My Go executable files are still large (what's new in 2021)

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Come work on CockroachDB in Sydney, Australia!

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Stargazers: A tool for analyzing your GitHub stars

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Why deploying on Kubernetes is like flying with an alligator

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From interns, with love: CockroachDB internship projects

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Log and error redaction in CockroachDB v20.2

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GCP outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report

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Sharing screens: What's it like to be an engineer at Cockroach Labs

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How we built scalable spatial data and spatial indexing in CockroachDB

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Thanking CockroachDB's open source contributors

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Why I left IBM to work on CockroachDB

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Distributed BACKUP and RESTORE added to free CockroachDB Core

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How we built a CockroachDB dialect for Hibernate

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Introducing Pebble: A RocksDB-inspired key-value store written in Go

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Alter column types without taking tables offline

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Using lateral joins for business analytics in CockroachDB 20.1

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Nested transactions in CockroachDB 20.1

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SIGMOD 2020: Cockroach Labs publishes research paper on CockroachDB

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How online primary key changes work in CockroachDB

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Announcing CockroachDB 20.1: New features let you build fast and build to last

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Tutorial: How to build a low-latency Flask app that runs across multiple regions

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What are hash sharded indexes and why do they matter?

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AWS, Azure, and GCP respond to the 2020 Cloud Report

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Building a college recruiting program for tomorrow's tech industry

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GCP comes out swinging against AWS and Azure in 2020 Cloud Report

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Peewee ORM + CockroachDB

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Reducing multi-region latency with Follower reads

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Availability and region failure: Joint consensus in CockroachDB

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Yugabyte vs. CockroachDB: Unpacking competitive benchmark claims

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Parallel Commits: An atomic commit protocol for globally distributed transactions

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How we built a vectorized execution engine

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From intern to full-time engineer at Cockroach Labs

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Join ordering, part II: The 'SQL'

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SQL Prober: Black-box monitoring in Managed CockroachDB

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SQLsmith: Randomized SQL testing in CockroachDB

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Query plan caching in CockroachDB

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Vectorizing the merge joiner in CockroachDB

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Automatic table statistics in CockroachDB

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Why are my Go executable files so large?

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Lessons learned from 2+ years of nightly Jepsen tests

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40x faster hash joiner with vectorized execution

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CockroachDB's consistency model

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Why we built CockroachDB on top of RocksDB

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How Pipelining consensus writes speeds up distributed SQL transactions

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Gotchas and solutions running a distributed system across Kubernetes clusters

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How we built a cost-based SQL optimizer

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High availability without giving up consistency

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Kubernetes: The state of stateful apps

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CockroachDB 2.0 performance makes significant strides

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Be flexible and consistent: JSON comes to CockroachDB

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Database scaling strategies: A practical approach

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DBAs at Baidu grow the CockroachDB global community

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Data migration made easy: Bulk ingest from CSV

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Distributed SQL (NewSQL) made easy: How CockroachDB automates operations

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CockroachDB on DC/OS: Resilient and hassle-free operations for global services

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Real transactions are serializable

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CockroachDB + ActiveRecord (and Ruby on Rails!)

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The path from beta to 1.0

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apd: An arbitrary-precision decimal package for Go

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CockroachDB beta passes Jepsen testing

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On the way to better SQL joins in CockroachDB

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[community post] Flowable and CockroachDB

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CockroachDB stability post-mortem: From 1 node to 100 nodes

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Testing random, valid SQL in CockroachDB

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Why can’t I run a 100-node CockroachDB cluster?

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Modesty in simplicity: CockroachDB's JOIN

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Consensus, made thrive

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Critters in a jar: Running CockroachDB in a FreeBSD jail

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Outsmarting Go dependencies in testing code

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Revisiting SQL typing in CockroachDB

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Building an application with CockroachDB and SQLAlchemy

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[community post] Running CockroachDB on DC/OS

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A tale of two ports | Cockroach Labs

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Serializable, lockless, distributed: Isolation in CockroachDB

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Index selection in CockroachDB

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DIY Jepsen testing CockroachDB

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Creating a digestible GitHub digest

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Adventures in performance debugging

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Could CockroachDB ever replace Redis? An experiment

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The cost and complexity of Cgo

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SQL in CockroachDB: Mapping table data to key-value storage

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How CockroachDB does distributed, atomic transactions

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Scaling Raft

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Hello, world

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video

CockroachDB 20.1 Release: Build Fast & Build To Last

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CockroachDB On Kubernetes | Kubernetes Deployment Explained | Multi-Region Kubernetes

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Data Council 2019: Architecture of a Geo-Distributed SQL Database

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Founders' Series: Architecture of a Distributed Database with Peter Mattis, CTO

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How to build a payments system that scales to infinity

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How To Build An Always-On Production Mentality & Engineering Culture

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Identity Management with Authzed and CockroachDB | RoachFest 2022

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The Future of Data | How the database fits in modern data architecture

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The Hot Content Problem: how to handle spikes in traffic

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The Resilient, Geo-Distributed Database: A SIGMOD Conference Talk

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What is jOOQ? | When to use jOOQ

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GDPR & Data Regulations

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