Rain Leander

Aug 8, 2023 | cockroachlabs.com | Rain Leander

Kick The Tires CockroachDB Serverless automates scale, high availability, deployment, and operations. Just connect and build. Start instantly To help people get outdoors and improve their physical well-being, we’ll create an outdoor activity tracker. Although we won’t cover aspects such as user management, the app will have an input page where users can enter activities such as hiking, skating, swimming, and soccer, with details such as date, duration, distance, and a description.

Aug 8, 2023 | cockroachlabs.com | Rain Leander

Sample Apps Built on CockroachDB Check out a library of sample applications built on CockroachDB See Sample Apps As cloud-native web developers, we want to build apps that scale easily. Databases are often a pain point, though. We want the structure and data integrity of relational databases like PostgreSQL, but we also want the easy scalability of NoSQL databases like MongoDB. Until recently, we’ve been forced to choose one or the other.

Aug 8, 2023 | cockroachlabs.com | Rain Leander

CockroachDB Serverless Taking the work out of your workloads since 2021. Start instantly To show how easy it is to use CockroachDB in a real-world project, we’re going to build and deploy a production-ready application with basic CRUD functionality. Together, we’ll build a Ruby on Rails application that simulates a game leaderboard, using Active Record to talk with our CockroachDB Serverless database.

Feb 23, 2023 | thenewstack.io | Rain Leander |Rynn Mancuso |Mary Branscombe

Life has always been tough for coders. During the 2600 console days, one Atari executive called its developers dime-a-dozen “towel designers,” prompting them to leave and form Activision. More than half a century later, the industry still hasn’t learned its lesson; recent stories in the press show how video game companies and recently-acquired social media firms alike continue to grind more work out of underappreciated coders.