CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide: Guide: Distributed Data at Scale, Edition 2
About this ebook
Data professionals will learn how to migrate existing applications to CockroachDB's performant, cloud-native data architecture. You'll also quickly discover the benefits of strong data correctness and consistency guarantees, plus optimizations for delivering ultra-low latencies to globally distributed end users.
- Uncover the power of distributed SQL
- Learn how to start, manage, and optimize projects in CockroachDB
- Explore best practices for data modeling, schema design, and distributed infrastructure
- Discover strategies for migrating data into CockroachDB
- See how to read, write, and run ACID transactions across distributed systems
- Maximize resiliency in multiregion clusters
- Secure, monitor, and fine-tune your CockroachDB deployment for peak performance
About the author
Guy Harrison is CTO at ProvenDB and a software professional with more than 20 years of experience in database design, development, administration, and optimization. He is the author of Next Generation Databases (Apress), MongoDB Performance Tuning (Apress), Oracle Performance Survival Guide (Prentice Hall), MySQL Stored Procedure Programming (O’Reilly), AI, Quantum Computing and Web3 (self-published), and many other books and articles on database technology.
Jesse Seldess is VP of Education at Cockroach Labs, where he leads the documentation and training teams. He has nearly 20 years of experience in technical documentation and has built teams from the ground up at Cockroach Labs and AppNexus (now Xandr).
Ben Darnell is the cofounder and chief architect at Cockroach Labs, where he built the distributed consensus protocols that underpin CockroachDB’s transactional model. He started his career at Google and then went on to a series of startups where he saw firsthand the need for better scalable storage systems.
Rob Reid is Cockroach Labs’ Technical Evangelist and a software developer from London, England. In his career, he has written backend, frontend, and messaging software for the police, travel, finance, commodities, sports betting, telecoms, retail, and aerospace industries. He is the author of Practical CockroachDB: Building Fault- Tolerant Distributed SQL Databases (Apress) and Understanding Multi-Region Application Architecture (O’Reilly) and has two CockroachDB tattoos.
