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Delivering low latency across regions is a hard problem to solve. Maintaining high availability when an application is spread out all over the world is also hard. Starburst is only a five-year-old company but they’re already handling exabytes of scale across a five-region deployment; keeping read-latencies low everywhere.

Dan Kelly

November 22, 2023

Architects from Hard Rock Digital shares their journey building a sportsbetting and iCasino that can quickly enter new markets with CockroachDB and AWS Outposts.

Michelle Gienow

November 21, 2023

At RoachFest23, Fortinet Director of Software Development Louis Jia shared the story of FortiSASE’s migration from CockroachDB SH (self-hosted) to CockroachDB managed services.

Michelle Gienow

November 15, 2023

Multi-cloud is not easy. Dig into our free report on the current state of multi-cloud, which contains expert advice from on-the-ground experts on pitfalls to avoid, best practices, and more.

Charlie Custer

November 14, 2023

We just released our Browser SQL Shell, which allows writing queries on CockroachDB within seconds of cluster creation.

I periodically need to make changes to tables. Adding columns is very simple with the ALTER TABLE command… But my tables have up to 40 million rows now, and they are growing fast. So those alter table commands take several hours… Since I’m using Amazon RDS, I can’t have replica servers to play with offline and then promote to primary in prod. So my question is if there’s a way to do this with minimal downtime? I don’t mind an operation taking hours or even days if users can still use the db…” — Stack Overflow, serverfault

Michelle Gienow

November 8, 2023

Here's how City Storage Systems built a highly available, highly performant persistence layer that works for mission-critical workloads at global scale WITHOUT needing a massive team.

Charlie Custer

November 7, 2023

CockroachDB nodes can be distributed across multiple locations across the globe to ensure that the data can survive outages. Learn about node locality, why this is important in CockroachDB, and how to set this in Kubernetes environments.

Here's how companies using Azure can allow access to CockroachDB for all approved users by dynamically mapping users in Azure Active Directory to a matching SQL user created in CockroachDB.

Charlie Custer

November 3, 2023