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Design
Salto Systems: Highly available access management technology
When you tap a hotel keycard on your door handle and hear the satisfying buzz and click of a deadbolt electronically unlocking you’ve likely just used a SALTO Systems product. SALTO is a leader in cloud-based access management technology. They manufacture advanced, flexible, and secure wireless electronic access control technology. SALTO’s products are available in over 40 countries and they have over 40M daily active users accessing over 5M equipped devices. They are leading the movement to replace mechanical keys with digital keys. As part of their strategy for leading this movement they are building flexible infrastructure with CockroachDB.
Cassie McAllister
March 1, 2023
Company
Big Ideas in App Architecture: Store your data where you want
Every week, the Big Ideas in App Architecture podcast seeks to extract answers to questions like those from the brightest minds in software development. CTOs, CIOs, VPEs, and Architects from companies like Twilio, Greenhouse, Starburst, and others will share their career path, the current landscape of application architecture challenges today, and strategies they’ve employed to build modern, resilient, data-intensive apps and services.
Dan Kelly
February 27, 2023
System
How to send data to Azure Synapse with change data capture
Modern data architectures contain a multitude of tools including something for transforming, shaping, and analyzing data to help inform better business decisions. For a mission-critical database like CockroachDB it’s important to be able to integrate with such systems to help customer teams leverage data for business. Combing a tool like CockroachDB with analytics services gives businesses transactional consistency and real-time data for making business decisions. In this tutorial we will look at how to send data using change data capture in CockroachDB to Azure Synapse.
Mike Bookham
February 23, 2023
Product
Converting cloud provider regions into country flags
Learn how Paul created an open source JavaScript utility package to help convert cloud provider region codes into real locations and country flags.
Paul Scanlon
February 17, 2023
Product
Distributed transactions: What, why, and how to build a distributed transactional application
Transactions make up an important part of the database workload for most modern applications. And when it comes time to scale up operations for a growing business, distributing those workloads across multiple hardware systems for horizontal scalability, high availability, and fault tolerance is often an important part of the plan.
Charlie Custer
February 16, 2023
applications
We built a serverless gambling app for the "Big Game"
Disclaimer: this blog is not just for sports fans The vast majority of the Super Bowl’s approximately 100 million annual viewers aren’t actually fans of the teams taking the field. They’re just people who are just looking for an excuse to get together with friends, eat healthy amounts of seriously unhealthy food, and watch commercials. But if congeniality and carbohydrates aren’t enough to hold your interest, a little action can make the “Big Game” a bit more interesting. Historically, most of the wagering on Super Bowl Sunday happens not at the big Vegas sportsbooks like Caesar’s or MGM, but instead in people’s homes, with friendly, informal wagers. The reigning champion of gambling games is a simple-to-learn, no-sports-knowledge-needed game commonly called “Super Bowl Squares.”
Aydrian Howard
February 10, 2023
Product
Building a sports betting application to handle ‘Big Game’ traffic
The popularity of sports betting, also called real-money gaming, is exploding. And at least in the US, there’s no bigger moment for sports betting than this weekend. The NFL’s championship game – you know, the game with the name we’re not allowed to say – is likely to be watched by around 100 million people. And with the growing legality and popularity of sports betting apps in the US, it is very likely this game will see more money flowing through betting apps than ever before.
Charlie Custer
February 9, 2023
Culture
What do you think of the name "CockroachDB"?
Our parents think we work for an extermination company. Accountants do double-takes. Allergists are intrigued. Homeland security agents have extra questions. Delivery drivers make quick, frightened visits to our floor (some refuse to come up at all!). At conferences people want to know why cockroach and we say, “…because it’s the database you can’t kill…” and the heads nod. CockroachDB is a polarizing name. But software engineers get it.
Dan Kelly
February 8, 2023
System
What is data partitioning, and how to do it right
Most software projects start their lives linked to a simple, single-instance database. Something like Postgres or MySQL. But as companies grow, their data needs grow, too. Sooner or later, a single instance just isn’t going to cut it. That’s where data partitioning comes in.
Charlie Custer
February 7, 2023