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Building a payment system is a challenging proposition. The potential pitfalls can be subtle, and the price for getting something wrong is high. Shipt is a company that has obviously gotten it right. You probably know Shipt as a grocery delivery service, but the ecommerce company has several other businesses and fulfills all of the orders placed on its parent company Target’s website.

Charlie Custer

October 12, 2022

We recently announced general availability (GA) for Serverless, with support for change data capture (CDC), backup and restore, and a 99.99% uptime SLA. Read on to learn how CockroachDB Serverless works from the inside out, and why we can give it away for free – not free for some limited period, but free. It required some significant and fascinating engineering to get us there. I think you’ll enjoy reading about it in this blog or watching the recent presentation I gave with my colleague Emily Horing:

Andy Kimball

October 11, 2022

We recently announced general availability (GA) for Serverless, with support for change data capture (CDC), backup and restore, and a 99.99% uptime SLA. Read on to learn how CockroachDB Serverless works from the inside out, and why we can give it away for free – not free for some limited period, but free. It required some significant and fascinating engineering to get us there. I think you’ll enjoy reading about it in this blog or watching the recent presentation I gave with my colleague Emily Horing:

Andy Kimball

October 11, 2022

Choosing the right instance type for your workload can be a tricky proposition. It’s not always clear how a particular configuration is going to perform for your workload, and running the tests to find out is time consuming and expensive.

Charlie Custer

October 10, 2022

“Do you know what time it is? Time to die.” -Nomi That’s it. That’s row-level TTL in a James Bond nutshell. Which is appropriate given that today is James Bond Day. You probably don’t need to read further than that one quote from Nomi (possibly the next 007?). Because you get it now. But row-level TTL has been one of our most requested features dating back to 2017. It’s rare for issues on our github to get this many votes. So I hope you’ll forgive me for indulging in this metaphor a bit longer.

Dan Kelly

October 5, 2022

*June 2023 Update - As of CockroachDB 23.1 our serverless deployment now has multi-region capabilities. You can read more detail in our documentation. A year ago the leaves were turning and we wrote, “serverless databases are the future”. Well, now serverless databases are the present. It’s true that the serverless database will continue to mature towards its eventual destiny as an API endpoint in the cloud. But the serverless version of CockroachDB is now generally available with advanced capabilities like change data capture (CDC), backup and restore, a management API, and a 99.99% uptime SLA.

Dan Kelly

October 4, 2022

Disasters happen. (Most) outages shouldn’t. When multi-billion dollar companies like Zoom, Slack, and Fanduel experience outages, the reaction from users tends to be anger and surprise. Anger, because people need to get their work done and set their fantasy football lineups. Surprise, because it’s 2022. Isn’t high availability the norm? Not all outages are created equal. Though they have a similar impact on end users, they happen for all kinds of reasons. And some of these reasons are preventable.

Peter Mattis

September 29, 2022

We’re pleased to announce that Crain’s has ranked Cockroach Labs #1 in the large companies category of its 2022 Best Places to Work in New York City list. This is the third year in a row Cockroach Labs has received this ranking in the large category. We were named #5 in the overall list of 100 companies in NYC.

Lindsay Grenawalt

September 29, 2022

When new technologies arise we first adopt them for their technical value. If that value proves out, then we reach the magic “crossing the chasm” moment: when a technology jumps to widespread adoption through proven business value and goes mainstream. Some technologies, a very select few, make one more jump forward, however — from mainstream to existential imperative.

Michelle Gienow

September 22, 2022