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In 2019, we published an exploration of the size and makeup of the executable files produced by the Go compiler. CockroachDB engineers, the Go team, and the greater Go community were intrigued by the analysis, and the results of it pushed our projects further. Two years passed, and both Go and CockroachDB had evolved significantly in that time. We wanted to explore: What might have changed? What could we learn?

This past summer, we launched the Infinite Colors employee resource group, or CREWS (Cockroach Employees Who Support), at Cockroach Labs. What is Infinite Colors? Infinite Colors is an employee-driven initiative to raise awareness and share resources about the challenges and opportunities of neurodiversity in the workplace.

*Guest post alert! Marla and Ali worked with the Cockroach Labs team to get the ActiveRecord CockroachDB Adapter ready for Rails 5.2 and beyond! Their work with Cockroach Labs is done, but the adapter lives on. This blog post was originally shared on their blog at Test Double.*

It’s been over a year since we released Cockroach University. In that time, we’ve launched two new developer courses, hired a full team of training professionals, and planned out a comprehensive roadmap for the future. Over 6,000 developers, architects, engineers, and other tech professionals have enrolled in one or more Cockroach University classes. We’ve received a lot of positive feedback so far but one comment we heard over and over again is that our students would appreciate shorter courses that focus on different skill sets.

In summer 2019, the Infinite Colors employee resource group, or CREWS (Cockroach Employees Who Support), was launched at Cockroach Labs. It is an employee-driven initiative, and its mission statement is to raise awareness and share resources about the challenges and opportunities of neurodiversity in the workplace.

Engineers on cloud performance teams can spend their entire workday tuning and optimizing cloud configurations. We caught up with Steve Dietz, a Google software engineer focused on Google Cloud performance, to get advice on how to performance tune, provision, and benchmark Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Jessica Edwards

April 1, 2021

Do you enjoy weird and strange build issues? Or do you think something we do in this blog post is fishy and you want to fix it? Want us to use bazel instead? Good news - we’ve got a role for you! We’re on the lookout for more engineers on our Developer Infrastructure team! We’re looking to expand our sprawling development infrastructure as we grow to more people and a bigger codebase with new and exciting functionality and cloud management. If you want to help the engineers write the exciting next generation of databases by empowering their work environment, don’t delay - apply today!

We are excited to share that Fundamentals of CockroachDB for Java Developers is now available on Cockroach University. This course is designed for Java application developers who are looking to advance their education with CockroachDB and build scalable, resilient applications and services. This is our third course offering following the inaugural Getting Started course and Fundamentals of CockroachDB for Python Developers. Similar to the Python course, you will build a full-stack-ride sharing application, but in Java using Spring Boot with Spring Data JPA.

When building out our internship program at Cockroach Labs, we wanted to be intentional about how we would support up-and-coming developers, bring in fresh ideas, and create a funnel of amazing new grads to Cockroach Labs. It’s been five years since we hosted our first interns at our headquarters in New York. As the company has grown, so has our engineering internship program. Our general philosophy around interns may be different from other technology companies: we assign real work that applies to the next releases of CockroachDB and CockroachDB Dedicated. Our interns understand that their work affects our company’s roadmap, gain a sense of what working at Cockroach is like, and build relationships with engineers on their team and leadership members.