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Tutorials
How to Set Up Ory Hydra with CockroachDB for Secure, Scalable OAuth 2.0 Authentication
This guide walks you through setting up Ory Hydra with CockroachDB, ensuring that your authentication system is not only secure but also highly available and scalable. Whether you’re a developer looking to implement authentication for a single app or an enterprise seeking a globally distributed solution, this tutorial will help you achieve your goals.

Ben Sherrill
March 18, 2025
Database Modernization
Scale & Resilience
Surviving 11 Application and Database Failures with CockroachDB
In this 3-part series, “Surviving Failures with CockroachDB,” we’ll explore the most common failure scenarios affecting modern applications and databases — and, more importantly, how CockroachDB helps prevent, contain, and recover from them. In this first post, we’ll cover common application and database failures.

Alicia Lu
March 17, 2025
Video Spotlight: “SQL and Database Essentials”
“What is SQL?” That’s a true FAQ in the world of databases.

David Weiss
March 10, 2025
AWS
Database Modernization
Advanced AWS DMS Configuration: Aurora PostgreSQL to CockroachDB Migration for CDC
While there are a number of tools to choose from, this blog explores how to leverage AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) to migrate from Aurora PostgreSQL to CockroachDB using a replication instance. This approach is particularly useful for customers who are already using DMS for an existing ETL pipeline and need to replace their current target database. This guide highlights how to configure DMS to work seamlessly with CockroachDB as the target, allowing you to continue using your existing ETL pipeline without modification, just as you did with a self-managed PostgreSQL or Aurora PG target machine.

Arun Pandey
March 5, 2025
AWS
Accelerating .NET Application Modernization: Cockroach Labs Teams Up With AWS
.NET applications have powered enterprise workloads for decades. But as these applications — and the underlying monolithic databases — age, businesses often face ballooning maintenance costs, limited scalability, and a lack of robust multi-region support in the cloud.

David Weiss
March 4, 2025
Database Modernization
Finserv Cloud Migration: CEO Convo with Citi, Google Cloud
Financial services have their sights set on a resilient cloud migration strategy: According to recent research, 53% of banking and financial services companies report experiencing service disruptions at least weekly.

David Weiss
February 26, 2025
Database Modernization
Scale & Resilience
What is Application Modernization?
What is application modernization? That’s officially an FAQ on the Internet. Here at Cockroach Labs, what people frequently ask us is a little more specific: What does Application Modernization have to do with databases?

David Bressler
February 25, 2025
Product
Scale & Resilience
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 focused on in this new release.

David Bressler
February 18, 2025
Company
Product
CockroachDB Turns Ten: Scaling the Future of Relational Databases
From Day One, our goal has been to bring together the benefits of both SQL and NoSQL, using a cloud-native, distributed architecture. But what we have accomplished for our customers over the past 10 years is only the beginning.

Spencer Kimball
February 18, 2025
