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CockroachDB offers a number of powerful enterprise features, most notably those related to geo-partitioning tables. Geo-partitioning allows users to control where their data lives geographically, at the row-level. To make geo-partitioning easier for users to try out, we made some updates to cockroach demo that enable you to check out enterprise features without the need for a full deployment. Note that all of the features discussed in this blog will be available in CockroachDB version 19.2. When you run cockroach demo in a terminal, CockroachDB starts a temporary, in-memory cluster, and then opens a SQL shell to that cluster. The in-memory cluster persists only as long as the shell is open, and the data is lost once the shell is closed. cockroach demo also automatically acquires a temporary enterprise license for each demo session, so you can use enterprise CockroachDB features right now. After you install CockroachDB, no further set up is necessary. So let’s dive right into the new features available for use with cockroach demo!

David Delaney is a Recruiter at Cockroach Labs. During office hours you'll find Dave interviewing and reaching out to engineers or thinking about how to improve the candidate experience. Outside of work most of his time is dedicated to his wife Rachel and son Ezra, but he does find time on Sundays to run around a bit in his old guys soccer league.

Would you believe us if we told you the word “multi-cloud” was banned from one of the top 3 Big Cloud shows? We couldn’t believe it either. So we wanted to create a wholly different type of show where this concept would actually take main stage… and we have. ESCAPE/19 is a conference where next generation infrastructure will be explored at depth across both technical and business challenges we will all face in our multi-cloud futures. Where else could you hear about the ethics of the cloud or get a pragmatic viewpoint on where we stand as an industry on the technology required to make multi-cloud happen?

Jessica Edwards

October 4, 2019

A global electronic lock company wanted to upgrade their identity access management (IAM) system to achieve global scale with no manual sharding. They wanted to move away from sharding and evolve the app’s architecture from monolithic to microservices. With no in-house site reliability team, they started evaluating database-as-a-service (DBaaS) products.

Throughout the year, we offer internships at Cockroach Labs to give students opportunities to gain industry experience and work on challenging problems within distributed systems. Bilal Akhtar is a Member of Technical Staff at Cockroach Labs, working on the Core Storage team and toying with KV storage engines. Outside of work, you’ll see him reading non-fiction, or giving urban photography a shot.

Even in the 80’s, before Facebook knew everything there was to know about us, we as an industry had vast reams of data we needed to be able to answer questions about. To deal with this, data analysts were starting to flex their JOIN muscles in increasingly creative ways. But back in that day and age, we had neither machine learning nor rooms full of underpaid Excel-proficient interns to save us from problems we didn’t understand; we were on our own.

We attend and sponsor a lot of opinionated cloud shows each year and AWS re:Invent, Google Cloud Next and Microsoft Ignite have become the centers of discussion for all things cloud. And while each of these shows provides great content and an incredible range of speakers, we noticed that there was a lack of an un-opinionated conversation about multi-cloud or hybrid deployments. Within one of these events, the mention of the term ‘multi-cloud’ is contractually not allowed and sponsor materials are inspected and censored clean of any mentions of the word. And even when the word ‘multi-cloud’ is allowed, the conversation is still limited as it is within the context of the show host. Meanwhile, nearly every industry pundit claims multi-cloud is the future. A multi- or hybrid-cloud architecture leads to better pricing leverage, greater innovation in the space, and more flexibility. As Corey Quinn, cloud economist at the consultancy The Duckbill Group puts it, “The typical multinational has a bunch of different divisions and each has its own cloud. Do you turn them off? Not unless you enjoy pain.” This is where the idea for ESCAPE/19 was born. There is room for a new show. A show that is an open forum to hold a general conversation about all of the clouds and the unique challenges we face as we analyze and discover how we leverage all of them, especially in conjunction with existing on-premise solutions.

Jim Walker

August 28, 2019

This blog post reflects my work as an intern this summer with the SRE team at Cockroach Labs. Earlier this year, we started building a service offering called Managed CockroachDB. While working with a group of beta customers, we found an unconventional solution to a huge problem: how do we create black-box monitoring in a distributed system?

Learning is Good is a program at Cockroach Labs that provides a stipend for employees to take advantage of resources for their professional development. Employees are encouraged to take courses, participate in workshops, attend conferences or obtain relevant certifications.