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All databases are ultimately just applications. Fundamentally, then, the definition of a serverless database is any database that embodies the core principles of a serverless application: No server management Automatic elastic scale Built-in resiliency and fault tolerance Consumption-based billing Instant access and always available

Michelle Gienow

October 28, 2021

Last year, Cockroach Labs introduced its first rotational product management program for aspiring early-career product managers. The goal of the program is to dissolve hidden barriers and train future product leaders as oftentimes, product management can appear to be a heavily gated career field -especially as it becomes increasingly popular across the technology industry. I was hired in September 2020 and I was overjoyed to have been selected to participate in Cockroach Labs’ program as an early career professional and learn about such an innovative product offering under the direction of the skilled product team here. Since my start, I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to work with talented members and customers across teams.

If you remember from the Marvel Avengers movies, one of the most critical and universe-defining events is “the blip” or “the snap.” This article will show you how to build a simple web app using Node.js that shows all the Marvel characters and their “blip” status, giving us the ability to update each character’s blip state on the database by clicking a button. We use Express.js as our framework and Pug for page templates and seed the database with character data from the official Marvel API while referencing our list of blipped and non-blipped characters to add a flag to the data. And, of course, CockroachDB Serverless is our database. Finally, we deploy our app to Heroku.

This article starts entirely from scratch to build a simple app with Node.js, Express.js, and CockroachDB Serverless to collect and display contact information. To follow this tutorial, you just need to know some JavaScript. You can v*iew complete code here on GitHub.*

Only two years after embarking on formal partnerships with the leading cloud providers, Cockroach Labs is excited to announce an expanded strategic alliance with Google Cloud. This partnership is a testament to the array of business and digital transformation benefits companies are witnessing by deploying CockroachDB on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). One such company is Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics, which has been using CockroachDB on Google Cloud since 2017. As an international company that processes hundreds of thousands of transactions in over 900 stores located across 47 different countries, guaranteeing data consistency on a secure infrastructure is of utmost importance to Lush.

Aika Zikibayeva

October 12, 2021

Serverless is a crucially better way to develop and deploy, well, anything. But what actually is serverless, and what does it do for developers? Learning the four fundamental principles of serverless lets you cut through the hype to evaluate whether any tech claiming to be “serverless” is actually delivering on its promises. When first introduced, the public clouds revolutionized how quickly we can build and deploy apps, and with lower infra costs. Simply put, serverless is the next logical evolution of the cloud computing paradigm, because it enables even more efficient use of limited resources: time, money, and developer brainpower.

Michelle Gienow

October 1, 2021

Founded in 1852 during the California Gold Rush, Wells Fargo was an innovative start-up providing miners secure ways to access money and transport valuable cargo — even operating the western branch of the Pony Express to give customers the fastest possible service. In the 1990s the company once again was a pioneer in financial services innovation when it became the first US lender to provide online banking. Eventually, however, the company started to fall a bit behind the technological curve.

Michelle Gienow

September 22, 2021

So you’re building a TypeScript application. You’ll need a database to power it, and an ORM to link your application to that database. We’d like to suggest a powerful combination that’s surprisingly easy to set up: TypeORM (a popular TypeScript ORM) and CockroachDB. This combination is so powerful, in fact, that we’ve created a narrative-driven tutorial about a powerful wizard that will help you get set up with CockroachDB and link your new distributed SQL database to your application.

Charlie Custer

September 14, 2021

When Friday the 13th, a video game adaptation of the slasher film franchise, first launched, gamers booted it up hoping for the same kind of horror experience they’d seen on the silver screen. But instead of Jason Voorhees’s creepy mask, many of them were greeted by a different sort of scare: Game Database Login Failure.

Charlie Custer

September 7, 2021