SELECT STAR

EP 11: CockroachDB is the way to GO!


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Looking to create a REST API with Go and CockroachDB? This is the right place to be.

On this episode of SELECT STAR, we use Go to connect to CockroachDB and create a simple REST API with the Gin Web Framework and the GORM ORM Library for Go.

Want to take CockroachDB for a spin? Check out https://university.cockroachlabs.com/ for FREE and get started!

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  • Go Lang
  • Gin Web Framework
  • GORM ORM Library

About our hosts:

Greg L. Turnquist worked on the Spring team for over thirteen years before he joined Cockroach Labs as a technical content engineer. He was the lead developer for Spring Data JPA, Spring Web Services, and a committer to multiple Spring portfolio projects. He wrote Packt's best-selling title, Learning Spring Boot 2.0 2nd Edition, and its 3rd Edition follow-up, along with many others including 12 Rules for Pro Coders. He co-founded the Nashville Java User Group in 2010 and hasn't met a query (yet) that he can't speed up.

Felipe Gutierrez worked as a Spring and RabbitMQ Advocate and Consultant for over 25+ years before joining Cockroach Labs. He also worked as a Technical Instructor, developing and teaching Spring Boot, Spring Core, Spring Cloud, RabbitMQ, and Cloud Foundry. He wrote Pro Spring Boot, Spring Boot Messaging, and Pro Spring Cloud Data Flow for Apress. Most recently, the 3rd edition of Pro Spring Boot for Java and Kotlin.

About Cockroach Labs:

Cockroach Labs is a pioneering software company at the forefront of database technology, delivering resilient and scalable database solutions for mission-critical workloads. With a mission to scale when others fail, Cockroach Labs is revolutionizing data management with its cloud-native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB.

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