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Star Trek: The Next Generation may have stopped airing in 1994, but it’s a series that’s always rewarding to return to. Arguably the most cerebral of the various Star Trek film and television series, the best episodes of TNG are just as thought-provoking today as they were when they were first televised.

Charlie Custer

December 21, 2023

Modernizing the data layer in your stack can be hugely beneficial, but it can also be risky. Here are three lessons Spreedly learned in their modernization efforts.

Charlie Custer

December 19, 2023

Tweeq's cloud-agnostic "no-brainer" tech stack — Go, CockroachDB, Temporal, Bazel, and gRPC, deployed on Oracle Cloud — let them build a payments platform that is scalable to millions of users, available 24/7, extensible, and easy to change.

Rob Reid

December 14, 2023

At RoachFest23, platform engineers Rogger Fabbri and Mario Morgado documented Form3's migration from PostgreSQL and demonstrated the platform's multi-cloud architecture, using CRDB and Kubernetes to span AWS, GCP and Azure with active-active replication to survive any event — even a full cloud outage.

Michelle Gienow

December 13, 2023

There’s a lot of hype around multi-cloud, but that doesn’t mean adopting a multi-cloud architecture is right for everyone. So what are the "right" reasons to adopt it?

Charlie Custer

December 11, 2023

Just the thought of updating the database schema is enough to give some developers and architects a headache. Designing a good schema is hard enough. Updating it once it’s in production? That has to be a nightmare. Right? Well, historically it certainly has been! But it doesn’t have to be. Let’s take a look at the options for dealing with database schema, and learn how live schema changes solve challenges with both traditional relational databases and NoSQL document-store alternatives.

Rob Reid

December 8, 2023

True story: It's October, 2012. A company decommissions its DR facility. Days later, Superstorm Sandy hits. You won't believe what happens next!

Michelle Gienow

November 30, 2023

Running a legacy RDBMS on-prem but dreaming of multi-cloud distributed SQL? It can become reality – but only if you approach the project in the right way.

Charlie Custer

November 29, 2023

Aurora Postgres makes scaling reads easy, but writes are limited to a single node, and that limitation took DoorDash's entire application offline for hours.

Charlie Custer

November 28, 2023