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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

You certainly don’t need a GUI to work with a Postgres-compliant database. For example, CockroachDB – a Postgres-compliant distributed SQL database – comes with a powerful SQL shell that you can run right from your console. But what if you want something a little more visual? Never fear! There are quite a few options for third-party graphic user interface (GUI) tools for CockroachDB. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular ones.

Charlie Custer

September 1, 2021

Follower reads are a key feature that developers wanting to use multi-region databases should understand. We originally introduced them in this blog post, and later documented their use here. In this post, we’ll quickly review the basics of follower reads, highlight some potential issues, and propose a new type of follower reads that we’re exploring to address those issues: bounded staleness reads.

As you may already be aware, Cockroach Labs has had a presence in Toronto for several years. Today however, we’re happy to announce that we’ve signed the lease for our first dedicated Toronto office at 33 Yonge Street. We’re very excited about this milestone, as it's the culmination of a lot of hard work we’ve been doing in the city over the last few years.

Adam Storm

August 26, 2021

Structured Query Language (SQL) was developed to work with relational databases that organize and store information in groups of columns and rows, called tables. They are “relational” because of relations linking data between different tables (think: Excel). SQL has lasted for decades, and it’s become the industry standard because of its ease, versatility, and power in working with transactional data. SQL is easy to learn for beginners, and can take developers far in their careers. It’s still the best language for defining data architecture, and it remains more popular among data engineers and scientists than languages like Python or R.

Amruta Ranade

August 26, 2021

Ever search for information about how to use Kubernetes? There are zillions of technical resources: docs, guides, tutorials, videos, blog posts, even cartoons. If, however, you wonder how Kubernetes is being used by different organizations and sectors, including Fortune 500s, — and what kind of workloads they use it for — “zillions” turns into “zilch.”

Michelle Gienow

August 24, 2021

Cloud-native application architectures help developers deliver amazing experiences to their customers around the world. They do this by taking advantage of billions in cloud provider investments, which provide nearly unlimited and on-demand resources spread across hundreds of data centers globally.

Nate Stewart

July 29, 2021