March 2024 | Spring forward, ROLLBACK

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Webinar | Unlocking Architectural Simplicity: A blueprint for modern applications

Architectural complexity is the status quo. But does it have to be? This upcoming webinar — featuring insights from our friends at Spreedly — is for anyone interested in simplifying their stack without sacrificing performance.

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Podcast | How to make your applications smarter with Loadsmart’s VP of Engineering?

Among the topics discussed in this wide-ranging episode with special guest, Rod Senra: How to run an engineering team like Napoleon led his frontlines. (No, really.)

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Guide | Banking resilience at global scale with distributed SQL

This free guide explains why and how Fortune 500 financial service companies use distributed SQL to grow their business, eliminate risks, optimize costs, and ensure an ideal customer experience.

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Video | What’s new in CockroachDB 23.2

In case you missed it, we recently released CockroachDB 23.2. Watch the launch webinar replay or check out the official release blog to get the scoop on new features including user-defined functions, Physical Cluster Replication, and more.

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Blog | A sports betting app saved millions switching from PostgreSQL to CockroachDB

To build a multi-region online sportsbook that complied with The Wire Act, this customer split from PostgreSQL and doubled down on CockroachDB.

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Upcoming Events & Webinars

Events

• March 12 (Minneapolis): Windmills & Workloads: A mini-golf happy hour with CockroachDB
• March 21 (Palo Alto): Hands on workshop with CockroachDB & AWS?
• April 3 (Paris): AWS Summit Paris - Come meet us at booth S1!
• April 3 (Austin): Cockroach Labs Workshop and Topgolf Experience

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Webinars

• March 14: How to simplify your architecture to achieve resilience

Big Ideas In App Architecture Podcast

• Episode 36 Solving for data intelligence at Scale with CTO at Collibra
• Episode 35:? How to make your application smarter with Loadsmart’s VP of Engineering
• Episode 34: Scaling for 2 billion events per day with Principal Software Engineer at Red Ventures
• Episode 33: The data behind digital marketing: A conversation with Bluecore’s software architect

What We’re Reading

The reads of March

• Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students via Ars Technica
• Botanical gardens can cool city air by an average of 5 °C via New Atlas
• The 14 pains of building your own billing system via Arnon Shimoni

How Shopmonkey gained highly available horsepower with CockroachDB?

“CockroachDB gives us the ability to spin up a new region and our infrastructure just continues to work. We just balance that load to the region where their physical store is located. It’s amazingly simple.”

-Jeff Haynie, CTO at Shopmonkey

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