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Sep 12, 2023 | 
gfk.com | Dan Kelly
As a product manager, I'm constantly learning and growing. There's always something new to learn, and I'm always trying to improve my skills. Some days, I feel I can take on the world. A proposed new idea has been tested brilliantly with clients, maybe a newly shipped feature has seen usage rocket. Or you feel as a broader team you’re all in flow with a clear goal and great momentum. The breadth of the role can be invigorating and inspiring. But at times, I've often felt like an imposter.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
cockroachlabs.com | Dan Kelly
An often overlooked privilege of building database technology is the opportunity to team up with companies that are making a positive impact in the world. For Cockroach Labs, EF (Education First) is one of those companies.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
cockroachlabs.com | Dan Kelly
In 2016, LinkedIn chose not to comply with Russia's requirement for data to be stored locally. As a result, they were kindly blocked from doing business in the country. Facebook and Twitter, on the other hand, both decided that compliance in Russia is worth the effort. Neither has fully met Russia's requirements but they have shown enough progress to avoid being blocked. This is an example of the kind of decision that data localization laws force companies to make.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
cockroachlabs.com | Dan Kelly
Following his keynote on the big stage at ESCAPE/19 Armon Dadger, CTO and Co-Founder of HashiCorp, sat down with John Furrier of The Cube and said, “If you had this exact same conference 3 or 4 years ago everyone would’ve been like, what Multi-Cloud? Multi-Cloud is not real. And now nobody questions the premise.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
cockroachlabs.com | Dan Kelly
This year, as every year, Black Friday and Cyber Monday stressed e-commerce systems to their breaking points. Major companies like H&M, Nordstrom Rack, and other retailers experienced the kinds of costly outages that keep SREs up at night. Multi-cloud infrastructure is sometimes offered as a panacea to these kinds of outages. But multi-cloud deployments are not a band-aid. In fact, they often introduce new complexities into the system that need to be sniffed out.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
cockroachlabs.com | Dan Kelly
Back in 2015 the early Cockroach Labs engineers made a decision to write this massive, complex application in Go. Since then we have, on many occassions, discussed our use of Go in blogs and on stage. This video in which our Chief Architect, Ben Darnell, explains our user of Go in great detail is a good place to start:It made sense that at some point we would also support GORM. What is GORM? GORM is a developer-friendly ORM library for dealing with relational databases–including CockroachDB.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
cockroachlabs.com | Charlotte Dillon |Dan Kelly
Back in the bygone era of meeting in person, shaking hands, and clapping enthusiastically for the brave souls who are willing to stand in front of their peers to do live demos, Elasticsearch held a meetup in Boston at Bose headquarters. Chris Chambers, Cloud Engineer at Bose, spoke to the crowd about how his team built a platform as a service using a number of open source tools, including CockroachDB, Elasticsearch, and Kubernetes.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
cockroachlabs.com | Dan Kelly
How is Lyft able to tell you how far away your driver is? How does DoorDash give accurate estimates for the food you just ordered? Both of these satisfying user experiences are possible because of spatial data. In this blog we’ll cover the basics of spatial data and then show some examples of common applications and use cases that use spatial data. What is Spatial Data? Spatial Data, often referred to as geospatial data, is any data that contains information about a specific location.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
cockroachlabs.com | Dan Kelly
Healthcare industry companies count on their database solutions to protect sensitive data and to deliver consistent performance. They also need the database to streamline communication between a complicated backend full of disparate systems. For most of the last 30 years this meant relying on Oracle because Oracle delivers the consistency required in an industry where lives are at stake and data must always be correct.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
cockroachlabs.com | Charlotte Dillon |Dan Kelly
CockroachDB is designed to deliver bulletproof resilience. But even the world’s safest boat needs to carry life jackets. The same principle applies to your data, which is why we’ve baked a breadth of Backup and Restore capabilities into CockroachDB. Moving Backup & Restore into the Free, Open Source Version of CockroachDBSince this blog was originally published there has been one massive change to our backup & restore functionality - we moved it into open source.
