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Scale & Resilience

“The State of Resilience 2025” Reveals the True Cost of Downtime

What is resilience, and what does it mean to your business? The answer is starkly clear in a new Cockroach Labs survey – one that’s a wake-up call for enterprises everywhere. We’ve just released the results of “The State of Resilience 2025: Confronting Outages, Downtime, and Organizational Readiness”, and its findings shed a surprising new light on the high financial stakes of maintaining operational resilience.

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David Weiss

October 29, 2024

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Unlocking Scale with CockroachDB and Microsoft Azure, for Retail and eCommerce

The retail industry is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by rapid digitization and changing consumer expectations. As eCommerce platforms expand, and brick-and-mortar retailers embrace omnichannel strategies, businesses face increasing challenges related to scalability, reliability, and customer experience.

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Harsh Shah

October 25, 2024

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Database Modernization

Mainframe to Distributed SQL, Part 2: The Imperative for Change

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, traditional mainframe database architectures have unique challenges and considerations for organizations that rely on conventional mainframe databases. Mainframe databases, while robust and capable of handling substantial volumes of data and high transaction throughput, face limitations in scaling, integration with modern systems, and cost efficiency.

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Amine El Kouhen, Ph.D.

October 24, 2024

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Semantic Search Using CockroachDB

With our 24.2 release, CockroachDB adds support for the VECTOR data type, along with a set of pgvector compatible functions for doing interesting things like computing similarity between vectors. This article provides a brief overview of some related concepts and introduces a semantic search application to illustrate this new capability in action. These new functionalities demonstrate CockroachDB’s expanding support for AI-driven applications, such as Large Language Models (LLMs).

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Michael Goddard

October 23, 2024

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Scale & Resilience

Engineering

A Conversation with Peter Mattis: Inherent Resilience for Tomorrow’s Outage

In our recent webinar, Peter Mattis, CTO and CPO at Cockroach Labs, and Rob Reid, Technical Evangelist at Cockroach Labs, shared expertise on the critical aspects of building resilient systems and the profound impact of downtime on modern businesses. Throughout the conversation, they shared lessons from their careers, insights from working with customers, and fielded questions from the audience.

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Becca Weng

October 22, 2024

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Driving AI, Data for Demanding Apps: Cockroach Labs In the News — October 2024

One of the biggest trends driving media conversations this month was the intersection of AI and database technology, specifically around how AI is changing the way businesses handle data.

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David Weiss

October 17, 2024

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Scale & Resilience

Database Modernization

Cloud Journeys: Getting to Hybrid with Distributed SQL

To showcase how the cloud has worked for companies across the globe and across industries, we’re kicking off a new blog series: Cloud Journeys with Distributed SQL. In this first post we will share some stories of how enterprises have moved from on-premise legacy database solutions to hybrid or single region cloud deployments by leveraging our distributed SQL database, CockroachDB.

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Becca Weng

October 15, 2024

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Engineering

Culture

Inside Cockroach Labs’ Software Internships with Jasmine Sun

We’re delighted to feature Jasmine Sun’s experience on our SQL Foundations team. Jasmine Sun is a current junior at the University of Waterloo and joined Cockroach Labs for the Winter 2024 Cohort. We sat down with Jasmine to talk about CockroachDB, cats, and her tips for applying to our software engineering internship program.

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Leslie Niiro

October 11, 2024

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Database Modernization

Mainframe to Distributed SQL, Part 1: Understanding Mainframe Database Architecture

Mainframe systems have long been the backbone of enterprise computing, known for their reliability, scalability, and unmatched processing power. As businesses strive to modernize their IT infrastructures, understanding the fundamentals of mainframe database architecture becomes crucial.

Sr. Partner Solutions Architect, Cockroach Labs

Amine El Kouhen, Ph.D.

October 10, 2024

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