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So you were worried about a failure, and it happened. Despite all of the planning, something went wrong, and now the goal is to minimize the impact of that failure. As part of our blog series, “Surviving Failures with CockroachDB,” this blog will cover what your options are when things inevitably fail.

Alicia Lu

April 9, 2025

Today, two CockroachDB tattoos, one RoachFest London MC gig, dozens of webinars and events, and 116 YouTube videos (and counting) later, Rob Reid is proud to have his name on CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition (O’Reilly Media, 2025), which we are launching today!

Becca Weng

April 8, 2025

Picture this: You own a bakery, and every evening, you need to store your secret recipes in a secure vault. You have two options: manually carrying them to a safe deposit box, or using a trusted courier service that ensures their safety without exposing your key.

Ben Sherrill

April 7, 2025

It is essential for today’s mission-critical applications to operate without interruptions, such as online banking systems that handle millions of transactions daily or healthcare systems managing real-time patient data. In these verticals and many more, downtime or data loss can result in significant financial and reputational damage, such as lost revenue from disrupted transactions, penalties for regulatory non-compliance, and erosion of customer trust due to perceived unreliability, making resilience and availability paramount.

Mark Johnson

April 4, 2025

Database migrations are complex, and ensuring the migrated data is 100% correct is critical. After all, a migration isn’t over until you feel confident and comfortable cutting over to the new infrastructure. To streamline migrations, Cockroach Labs created the MOLT (Migrate Off Legacy Technology) suite, which includes three tools that improve different parts of the user journey.

Jeremy Yang

April 2, 2025

The team at Cockroach Labs has worked with dozens of companies (including Fortune 50 retailers) that use CockroachDB in production today. Here’s three customer stories describing how they use CockroachDB to support mission-critical use cases.

Cassie McAllister

April 1, 2025

Modernizing trading infrastructure: It’s an imperative for capital markets firms seeking to maintain their competitive edge in today's fast-evolving financial landscape. 

David Weiss

March 31, 2025

In modern databases, efficient data access and maintainability are crucial — especially as schemas evolve and queries grow more complex. Views in CockroachDB help bridge this gap by allowing developers to create logical representations of data without altering the underlying tables.

Alex Seriy

March 28, 2025

CockroachDB is built to prevent systemic breakdowns by isolating failures, automating recovery, and maintaining consistency across environments. In this blog, we’ll explore how CockroachDB helps organizations build resilient architectures that keep applications running smoothly—even in the face of unexpected disruptions.

Alicia Lu

March 27, 2025