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Company values show up in some facet of our roles every day, whether we’re making a hard choice or determining priorities. They help guide our team towards shared business goals and, in doing so, shape company culture. With many technology companies having faced working remotely in the past months, culture has become a greater priority and a shared responsibility. Getting everyone on the same page about culture begins with defining values.

Developing a modern application means developing for the cloud, with uptime, scalability, geographic distribution, and low latency at the forefront of concerns. This has led to the widespread adoption of application architectures based on event-driven microservices. Breaking the elements of an application down into microservices allows us to (for example) scale different services independently. It is simply the most efficient way to architect applications for the cloud. However, embracing event-driven microservices also presents some challenges. With so many different services in motion at the same time, communication between them can become a challenge.

Charlie Custer

January 18, 2022

Change data capture (CDC) can simplify and improve both your application and data architectures. The trick is to figure out the most effective use cases where employing CDC will have the desired impact. In this blog, I’m going to unpack two useful CDC use cases: The first is streaming data to your data warehouse and the second is event-driven architectures. By no means are these the only two use cases for change data capture, but they are excellent examples for demonstrating the ways that CDC can simplify application and data architecture.

Michael Wang

January 11, 2022

At Cockroach Labs, we value not only our company’s collective culture, but sharing a view into the culture driving teams across the company. In the Meet the Team series, you’ll meet wonderful Roachers who help Enable Every Developer to Build World-Changing Applications. This entry is part one in our feature of the East Sales team, where we sat down with Vincent Giacomazza, Vice President of Sales, East.

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

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

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

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.

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