

Jesse Seldess is the VP of Education at Cockroach Labs, where he leads documentation and training. It includes specific guidance for anyone transitioning from a monolithic database (e.g., MySQL or PostgreSQL) to a distributed architecture, as well as practical examples for anyone more familiar with NoSQL systems.

This new book from O’Reilly will teach developers, architects, and devops teams how to build, optimize, and manage applications that run on CockroachDB. How to plan CockroachDB deployments in a single region or across multiple regions.How to optimize query performance across geographically distributed replicas.How to read and write data in CockroachDB.How to run ACID transactions in a distributed database.How to model your data and how to design and update your schemas.In this guide, you will learn how to build applications on CockroachDB including: Those already familiar with distributed systems will quickly discover the benefits of strong data correctness and consistency guarantees as well as optimizations for delivering ultra-low latencies to users anywhere in the world. This in-depth guide from O'Reilly gives practical guidance to developers, architects, and devops teams who want to build applications that scale elastically and provide low latencies for their users, all while remaining highly available and indestructible. Learn to build and deploy applications with CockroachDB, an elastic, distributed SQL database built for the cloud. Blueprint for building applications that survive anything and thrive everywhere (O'Reilly Early Release)
