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At RoachFest Las Vegas, @kelseyhightower.com will be bringing his perspective to the RoachFest stage!

RoachFest 2025: Real resilience from Bengaluru to Las Vegas RoachFest isn’t your typical tech conference. It’s where builders, engineers, operators, architects, and executives come together to talk about what really happens in production. We’re not talking abo...

Next stops for #RoachFest25? Bengaluru and Las Vegas.

Here’s everything you need to know about our upcoming events: www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/roachfe...

CockroachDB's 10-Year Release: Vector Indexing, Performance, and More A few months ago Cockroach Labs turned 10, and this release celebrates 10 years of continuous distributed SQL innovation. We’re introducing even more performance and scalability improvements and AI ve...

Introducing CockroachDB 25.2, the most performant, scalable, and secure version of CockroachDB yet.

Clock Management in CockroachDB: Good Timekeeping is Key Learn how CockroachDB manages clock synchronization in distributed systems using NTP and software techniques—plus guidance for single and multi-region deployments.

An inside look at how CockroachDB leverages the Network Time Protocol (NTP) along with software-based compensation techniques to achieve reliable time coordination across database nodes.
www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/clock-m...

O'Reilly | CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide (2nd Edition) Build scalable, resilient apps with O’Reilly’s CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide. Learn to deploy, optimize, and manage distributed SQL systems at scale.

We are excited to announce the 2nd edition of @oreilly.bsky.social's CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide — an in-depth exploration of how our distributed SQL database came to be, and how you can use it to build truly resilient applications.

www.cockroachlabs.com/guides/oreil...

YouTube video by CockroachDB What makes a good relationship? Primary keys! // SELECT STAR

🔴 NOW STREAMING: Everything you need to know about primary keys

Accelerate Data Migrations with MOLT Schema Conversion Tool Cockroach Labs’ MOLT Schema Conversion Tool (SCT) accelerates data migration by automating schema translation while minimizing trial-and-error. With SCT, enterprises can confidently transition to Cock...

Automated schema translation. Minimal trial-and-error.

Get an inside look at our CockroachDB MOLT Schema Conversion Tool, designed to eliminate the bulk of manual work and dramatically accelerate the migration process.

Antithesis of a One-in-a-Million Bug: Taming Demonic Nondeterminism With the help of Antithesis, a startup from the founders of FoundationDB, CockroachDB engineers were able to track down and reproduce a most elusive one-in-a-million bug, nearly deterministically!

🔎 An inside look at how our engineering team caught a one-in-a-million bug.

www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/demonic...

YouTube video by CockroachDB Want to speed up your database with AI? // SELECT STAR

🔴 Greg Turnquist is going live on our YouTube channel at 11am ET to demonstrate how AI tools can speed up your CockroachDB database, make it more performant, and help squeeze out inefficiencies! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SAj...

Advanced AWS DMS Configuration: Aurora PostgreSQL to CockroachDB Migration for CDC Explore advanced AWS Data Migration Service (DMS) configuration techniques to seamlessly migrate from Aurora PostgreSQL to CockroachDB. This comprehensive guide covers each step from pre-configuring A...

A technical read on how to:
✔️ Configure your source and target endpoints
✔️ Set up custom replication slots
✔️ Fine-tune migration tasks to ensure that your existing ETL pipelines remain intact even as you modernize your database architecture.

www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/aws-dms...

How to change your database schema with no downtime Traditionally, updating your SQL database schema once the database is in production has been a pain. But it doesn't have to be. There's a better way!

No. You didn't misread the title of this article.

CockroachDB offers easy, no-downtime live schema updates.

www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-to-...

Preventing the Breach: Vulnerability Management at Cockroach Labs Many customers approach the Cockroach Labs Account teams and the security and compliance teams with questions around vulnerabilities their preferred security scanners have identified. This blog post l...

At Cockroach Labs, a critical part of our software development process is a focus on Quality.

Here's an inside look at how our team triages vulnerabilities and addresses them as part of our daily operational cadence.

www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/vulnera...

CockroachDB 25.1: Enhanced resilience and performance Performance improvements are critical, not only for the scope and scale of applications, but also because increasing performance drives down the cost of ownership – and that’s where Cockroach Labs has...

In our latest release, we are focused on improving performance and resilience while helping your organization bring down the costs that come with database ownership.

Get an inside look at CockroachDB 25.1 ⤵️ www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroa...

Looking at the Current State of Resilience with Spencer Kimball

Our Co-Founder and CEO Spencer Kimball joined @quinnypig.com on the Last Week in AWS podcast to discuss the current state of resilience.

🎧 Give it a listen and subscribe at cockroa.ch/3Bd13Zi

Building a Multi-User Chatbot with Langchain and Pinecone in Next.JS In this example, we’ll imagine that our chatbot needs to answer questions about the content of a website. To do that, we’ll need a way to store and access that information when the chatbot generat...

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When it comes to creating natural conversations with chatbots, context is key. Pinecone built this GenAI chatbot example with CockroachDB to store the user-based conversational context and history.

💻 Go deeper into the architecture: https://www.pinecone.io/learn/javascript-chatbot

An epic read on follower reads Sometimes, reading stale data is ok — preferred, even. Let's look at "follower reads" (aka "stale reads"), a technique for getting good performance from a database accessed from multiple geographic...

TLDR: Follower reads are our implementation of stale reads.

For CockroachDB users aiming to get good performance from databases accessed from multiple geographical regions, this is an essential read. https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/follower-reads-stale-data/

Watch some of our customers explain how they feel about the name CockroachDB. For years we've received extremely polarizing (unsolicited) feedback on the nam... What do you think of the name CockroachDB?

❓“What do you think of the name CockroachDB?” 🪳

We asked some of our customers this question backstage at #RoachFest22.

After hearing what they had to say about #CockroachDB’s resiliency, we’re feeling pretty good about our naming decision.

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