Dan The Engineer

Build a Multi Region Python App with CockroachDB, Django and K8s

A request came across my desk the other day asking whether I had any experience with Django and would I like to see if I could get this working with our multi region capabilities. I had never heard of Django before but never to be one to turn down a

Deploying resilient Camunda against CockroachDB

The Background: Java-based BPMN for workflow and process automation. It allows organisations to easily design and automate processes whether these are human workflows or to mange flows from microservices architecture. Although Camunda can be consumed as SaaS, there is also the option to deploy on customer managed hardware. Although Camunda

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Database Isolation Levels and Data Anomalies

Database isolation and data anomalies are important to understand. This Blog Post explains details regarding both and how they are linked

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Streaming Data from CockroachDB to Redpanda

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Active Passive vs Multi-Active Database Topologies

A Comparison of Active Passive vs Multi-Active Database Deployments

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DevOps culture: The need of the day.

DevOps Culture is the Future

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CockroachDB vs AWS Aurora

This article is all about comparing the feature sets of CockroachDB and Amazon Aurora. These are two of the most popular SQL and databases of the cloud era

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CockroachDB vs SQL Server

A quick comparison of cockroachdb and SQL Server.

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Top 5 Useful Commands with CockroachDB

The Top 5 Commands used to help you become more proficient in administering and using CockroachDB

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Schema Design Considerations with CockroachDB. What is a Hotspot Not?

Want to know what considerations to make when selecting primary keys in cockroachDB? Want to know how CockroachDB diversifies and replicates it data?

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CockroachDB - Fun with Encryption

In this post, Dan shows you how to create multiple store directories for CockroachDB nodes and encrypt them using different encryption keys. Different tables can then be stored and encrypted using different keys.

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How to get started with CockroachDB - Binary, Docker or Kubernetes

Want to get started with CockroachDB. This is the perfect blog post for you. Today I am going to show you how to get started with distributed sql databases so you can start developing your application locally on your laptop.