CockroachDB protects you from data anomalies with serializable transactions—but that guarantee isn’t free. What do you need to do to make it work in a distributed enterprise?

Find out in this episode of SELECT STAR.

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About the hosts

Greg L. Turnquist spent over thirteen years on the Spring team before joining Cockroach Labs as a Technical Content Engineer. He led Spring Data JPA and Spring Web Services, contributed across the Spring ecosystem, and authored multiple books including Learning Spring Boot and 12 Rules for Pro Coders.

Felipe Gutierrez brings 25+ years of experience as a Spring and RabbitMQ advocate, consultant, and instructor. He has authored several Apress titles including Pro Spring Boot, Spring Boot Messaging, and Pro Spring Cloud Data Flow.

About Cockroach Labs

Cockroach Labs builds resilient, scalable database solutions for mission-critical workloads. Its cloud-native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB, helps organizations scale when others fail.

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