Blog
Events
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
DBaaS
multi-region clusters
customer stories
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
Events
Superbet’s Cloud Migration Story: RoachFest24 Highlights
The RoachFest24 procession continues! We are highlighting all of the best presentations from RoachFest24 so far, from mobile game development to order and inventory management. If these revelations excite you, make sure to register for RoachFest NYC – coming up on September 26!
Becca Weng
August 29, 2024
Scale & Resilience
How Nellis Auction Uses CockroachDB and Google Cloud to Achieve Scale and Reliability
Nellis Auction, an online auction company based in Las Vegas, NV, specializes in reverse logistics – this means handling goods that travel back through the supply chain from customer to distributor or manufacturer, then selling them off in local markets via auction.
Harsh Shah
August 28, 2024
Engineering
Product
How CockroachDB Implements UDFs and SPs
User-defined functions (UDFs) and stored procedures (SPs) allow users to define a set of queries that can be executed at the database by providing only the function or procedure name and any relevant parameters. They provide building blocks for users to compose complex queries, which makes applications less error prone since users don’t need to repeatedly provide the complex query. Another benefit of UDFs/SPs is that they enable better performance by moving more computation closer to the data. There are fewer round trips between the application and database to get the results the user wants.
Drew Kimball
August 27, 2024
Business
PwC UK and Cockroach Labs: Accelerating Modernization and Reducing Regulatory Risk for Financial Services
There’s a lot riding on the technology choices enterprises make. However, a winning strategy for mainframe modernization and reducing regulatory risk means more than just selecting the best tech: It calls for access to a comprehensive solution addressing business, regulatory, and technological challenges.
David Weiss
August 26, 2024
Azure
Engineering
Unlocking Enterprise Scale with CockroachDB: Deploying on Microsoft Azure
This is the second article in the series, Unlocking Enterprise Scale with CockroachDB on Microsoft Azure, where we help you utilize the best that CockroachDB on Azure has to offer. In this blog, we will explore different production options, deployment strategies, and key considerations for single-region and multi-region setups, while introducing key integrations with the Azure ecosystem.
David Joy
August 20, 2024
Events
Rightmove’s Database Migration Story: A RoachFest Highlight
Andrew Tate, Rightmove’s Head of Technology Operations, hit the stage and the crowd with some impressive statistics, setting the scene for why Rightmove needed a solid database solution. With 34 million searches per day, 1.3 billion minutes spent on their site per month, and over 1 petabyte of data in total – that’s 10^15 bytes of data – Rightmove is the go-to site for UK renters and buyers.
Becca Weng
August 19, 2024
Evolving our self-hosted offering and license model
In the past decade, we’ve helped our customers push the envelope to lead in their respective markets, with data architectures that can seamlessly survive node outages, datacenter outages, regional cloud outages, and even the unprecedented ability to turn off a cloud vendor entirely with complete business continuity. We are agnostic to public vs private cloud, allowing zero-downtime portability, and public / private hybrid deployments. All while leaving the door open to the future repatriation of data – after all, the only guarantee is that business requirements will continue to evolve in hard-to-predict ways. Our ability to meet these and other challenges is the number one reason why CockroachDB has become the trusted global database for running the mission-critical workloads of the world’s most important businesses.
Spencer Kimball
August 15, 2024
AWS
Introducing Pay-As-You-Go CockroachDB Cloud on AWS Marketplace
We’re thrilled to announce a new payment option for CockroachDB Cloud on AWS Marketplace: pay-as-you-go. With this new option, users can benefit from a streamlined payment process through their AWS accounts. Enterprises also gain an additional option to acquire Cockroach Cloud alongside the existing private offer already available through AWS Marketplace.
Ayushi Jain
August 13, 2024