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CockroachDB users trust us with their most sensitive data (see: healthcare, finance). And the best way for us to maintain that trust is for Cockroach Labs to never see this data at all. In CockroachDB v20.2, our tooling is able to automatically redact users' sensitive data out of log files, so that Cockroach Labs never even receives it. We also do this always for crash report telemetry.

The 2021 Cloud Report stands on benchmarks. Now in its third year, our report is more precise than ever, capturing an evaluation of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure (Azure), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that tells realistic and universal performance stories on behalf of mission-critical OLTP applications.

When it comes to learning, we have all benefited from social learning in the workplace. Social learning is an opportunity for people to learn from one another through programs that help us share knowledge such as peer mentorship, or attending a lunch and learn, where someone shares their expertise with the broader company. Though sometimes unconscious, we are able to learn and observe by example and then apply what we take away to our own work.

Back in the bygone era of meeting in person, shaking hands, and clapping enthusiastically for the brave souls who are willing to stand in front of their peers to do live demos, Elasticsearch held a meetup in Boston at Bose headquarters. Chris Chambers, Cloud Engineer at Bose, spoke to the crowd about how his team built a platform as a service using a number of open source tools, including CockroachDB, Elasticsearch, and Kubernetes. Bose really requires no introduction but it bears mentioning that Chris works on a specific team within Bose called Galapagos. The mission of Galapagos is to bring Bose’s software into the 21st century - In the past, Bose was focused on embedded software (software that runs on speakers and headphones) and now that they’ve mastered the art, they have started to modernize so that they can bring cloud-connected experiences to all our devices.

We are proud to announce a new round of funding at a milestone valuation, which recognizes our company’s rapid growth, happy customers, and our emerging role as a leading cloud-native SQL database. The events of 2020 delivered more change in the past few months for businesses than many of us have experienced in the last 10 years. The impact of stay-at-home orders forced organizations to rapidly adapt to changing consumer behaviors, remote workforces, and explosive growth of digital services. As companies rushed to evolve their businesses and adapt their applications to support the rapid shift to digital-everything, many discovered that they needed more resilient, more easily scalable, and more flexible data infrastructure.

With millions of customers to serve, a major cable company needed to build a virtual customer support agent to scale their customer requests. The app had to provide 24/7 help to users across the United States, and store metadata about customer conversations. The first version of the application was built on Amazon Aurora, in a single cloud region on the east coast of the United States. However, this deployment was vulnerable to failures, and when a networking failure in an AWS region knocked the entire service offline, the team realized that Aurora’s single-master architecture was not sufficient to attain the always-on customer experience they wanted. They needed to explore other options in hopes of migrating the app.

Support for spatial data and spatial indexing is one of the most requested features in the history of CockroachDB. The first issue requesting spatial data in CockroachDB was opened in October 2017, and closed on November 12, 2020 with the release of spatial data storage in CockroachDB 20.2.

Support for spatial data and spatial indexing is one of the most requested features in the history of CockroachDB. The first issue requesting spatial data in CockroachDB was opened in October 2017, and closed on November 12, 2020 with the release of spatial data storage in CockroachDB 20.2.

CockroachDB was conceived as open source software, and we are proud that CockroachDB remains open source to this day. Throughout our journey, our community has made valuable contributions to our product. Over the course of our existence, we have had over 1590 commits from over 320 external contributors across all our open source repositories. Today, we want to thank all our wonderful external contributors. In this blog post, we celebrate open source contributions across the CockroachDB repositories, with a glimpse of how we manage contributions to our own repo. We take a closer look at the impact of external contributions on the spatial offering for v20.2 and CockroachDB ORMs. We also take a look at how we encouraged first-time open source contributors during Hacktoberfest 2020. Finally, we recognize all our external contributors and celebrate their work.