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Black Friday and Cyber Monday are like the Superbowl for retailers. Instead of point spreads, though, e-commerce companies are betting on peak sales numbers. But while the deluge of deals evokes dreams of dollars for CEOs, the surging site traffic can be more of a nightmare for CTOs. The onslaught of shoppers puts huge amounts of stress on their application architecture. In this scenario, even a minor problem with inventory management can cause major consequences.
Charlie Custer
November 7, 2024
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Azure
Unlocking Enterprise Scale with CockroachDB: Operating CockroachDB on Microsoft Azure – Part 3
As organizations increasingly move to the cloud, scaling database infrastructure seamlessly while maintaining availability and performance becomes a top priority. Whether you're managing a fast-growing startup or an enterprise with global reach, finding the right balance between control, flexibility, and operational simplicity in a database is key: For those running on Microsoft Azure, CockroachDB presents a compelling choice.
David Joy
November 4, 2024
Product
Announcing Improved CockroachDB Cloud Pricing
Reduced prices in compute for CockroachDB Cloud Standard and Advanced plans. Only pay for what you use in data transfer, backups, and changefeeds.
Andy Woods
November 1, 2024
Scale & Resilience
Cloud Journeys: Getting to Multi-Region with Distributed SQL
While the first phase of cloud adoption involves deploying applications across region specific data centers or availability zones, the second phase of cloud adoption involves deploying data infrastructure across multiple regions to support global applications that require low-latency connectivity and redundancy across large geographical areas.
Becca Weng
October 31, 2024
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.
David Weiss
October 29, 2024
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.
Harsh Shah
October 25, 2024
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.
Amine El Kouhen
October 24, 2024
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).
Michael Goddard
October 23, 2024
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.
Becca Weng
October 22, 2024
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.
David Weiss
October 17, 2024