Blog
Company
CockroachDB lands on the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
Gartner recently published the 2021 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems and Cockroach Labs has been included in it for the first time. This is a major milestone and is indicative of the momentum behind Cockroach Labs, the maturity of CockroachDB as a cloud DBMS for transactional use cases, and an increasing interest in distributed transactional DBMSs in the market.
Jim Walker
December 21, 2021
Company
Tech trends in 2022: Gaze into the Cockroach Labs crystal ball
The whole world is moving faster than ever, and technology in particular feels like it’s evolving at light speed. Turning over the calendar page to a brand new year is the perfect opportunity to pause in the midst of all this tumult and get our bearings. A sense of both, What just happened??? and What happens next? grants invaluable situational awareness, so let’s take a look at what happened during 2021…But, more importantly, gaze into the Cockroach Labs crystal ball 🔮 with us for three predictions about what 2022 holds in store.
Michelle Gienow
December 20, 2021
Company
A database to build what you dream
Today marks a significant milestone for Cockroach Labs. We are announcing our most recent round of funding, raising significant capital at a $5B valuation. This latest round of funding is a reflection of our customers’ rapid advances in production deployments, supporting the growth of our business.
Spencer Kimball
December 16, 2021
Culture
Roacher Spotlight: How Jen Murphy became a sales expert
The Roacher spotlight series is a celebration of our Roachers, their stories, and the wisdom they can impart to their peers. In our inaugural post, we sat down with Jen Murphy to tell her Cockroach Labs story.
Devonaire Ortiz
December 15, 2021
Engineering
Live betting on ACID: Challenges of building a next-gen gambling app
Imagine you’re watching a baseball game. In the middle of the fifth inning, your pitcher throws a strike, and then another one. The fan sitting next to you jumps to his feet in jubilant celebration. You could be forgiven for wondering what’s going on. After all, it takes three strikes to get a batter out – why is this guy dancing like the game is already over?
Charlie Custer
December 14, 2021
Product
Move fast and don’t break things: The best database for gambling apps
Online gambling is one of the fastest-growing industries on the planet, with the market expected to be worth more than $127 billion by 2027. But it’s also a very challenging vertical for app development.
Charlie Custer
December 8, 2021
Engineering
Automated alert and aggregation rule generation for CockroachDB metrics
Like all software systems, metrics are crucial for understanding the inner workings of a system and getting a pulse on how that system is functioning. Any monitoring and debugging framework is incomplete without metrics.
Rima Deodhar
December 7, 2021
applications
How TreesPlease Games builds gaming infra with CockroachDB Serverless
The gaming industry is all about delivering a great end-user experience which means building relationships with players that last years, not days. They can do this by instilling predictability, reliability, and creating a strong brand by giving players what they want: a new and better gaming experience each time. However, the success of a new game or platform is often unpredictable. A game can become successful overnight and the amount of concurrent players can surge within a few hours causing slowdowns or the inability to login. Or the game may never reach a certain level of popularity that it needed to see a ROI.
Cassie McAllister
December 3, 2021
Engineering
What is connection pooling, and why should you care
As a developer, you may not have spent a lot of time thinking about database connections. A single database connection is not expensive, but as things scale up, problems can emerge. So let’s (ahem) dive into the world of connection pooling, and take a look at how it can help us build more performant applications, especially when we’re operating at scale.
Charlie Custer
November 30, 2021