SELECT STAR

Saying CockroachDB “just shards data” is a serious understatement. Under the hood, it uses powerful mechanisms to deliver resilience and consistency—while also giving you control over data placement for compliance, performance, and more.

In this episode of SELECT STAR, discover the core mechanism that enables CockroachDB to scale without sacrificing ACID guarantees.

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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.

© 2026 Cockroach Labs, Inc.

CockroachDB stores your data across a distributed system for resilience and protection. But where does it go—and how does it know how to survive server failures, regional outages, and more?

In this episode of SELECT STAR, explore a core building block that helps CockroachDB understand and adapt to your system’s topology.

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https://learn.cockroachlabs.com

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Find SELECT STAR on your favorite podcast platform

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.

© 2026 Cockroach Labs, Inc.

In a distributed system, the answer to your query might be halfway around the world. So how do you handle that cost when you need results fast?

In this episode of SELECT STAR, discover practical ways to “beat the system” and get low-latency answers—even when your data lives on another continent.

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Want to try CockroachDB?
Get started here:
https://learn.cockroachlabs.com

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Episode link 1
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Find SELECT STAR on your favorite podcast platform

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.

© 2026 Cockroach Labs, Inc.

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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Want to try CockroachDB?
Get started here:
https://learn.cockroachlabs.com

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Episode link 1
Episode link 2

Don’t miss the podcast!

Find SELECT STAR on your favorite podcast platform

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.

© 2026 Cockroach Labs, Inc.

Some people say we can get rid of software education altogether. But is that true?

In this episode of SELECT STAR, I sat down with Java Champion and Spring Developer Advocate Dan Vega. He shares why fundamentals matter more than ever.

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Want to take CockroachDB for a spin?
Check out:
https://learn.cockroachlabs.com

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Episode link 1
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Don’t miss the podcast!

Find SELECT STAR on your favorite podcast platform

About the hosts

Greg L. Turnquist worked on the Spring team for over thirteen years before joining Cockroach Labs as a Technical Content Engineer. He was the lead developer for Spring Data JPA and Spring Web Services, contributed to multiple Spring projects, and authored several books including Learning Spring Boot and 12 Rules for Pro Coders.

Felipe Gutierrez has over 25 years of experience as a Spring and RabbitMQ advocate, consultant, and instructor. He has authored multiple 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.

© 2026 Cockroach Labs, Inc.

Are you using AI tools? How are you using them? And what are you building without AI?

In this episode of SELECT STAR, I sat down with Spring teammate and conference organizer Glen Renfro to explore the different ways we’re putting AI to work.

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Want to take CockroachDB for a spin?
Check it out here:
https://learn.cockroachlabs.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=select_star

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Also see 👀

• https://youtube.com/live/squwM1_rDYA?feature=share
• https://youtube.com/live/yP-3tV0QiuM?feature=share

Don’t miss the podcast!

• Find the SELECT STAR show on your favorite podcast platform

About the hosts:

Greg L. Turnquist worked on the Spring team for over thirteen years before joining 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 projects. He is the author of Learning Spring Boot (2nd and 3rd editions) and 12 Rules for Pro Coders. He co-founded the Nashville Java User Group 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 has served as a technical instructor teaching Spring Boot, Spring Core, Spring Cloud, RabbitMQ, and Cloud Foundry. He is the author of Pro Spring Boot, Spring Boot Messaging, and Pro Spring Cloud Data Flow.

About Cockroach Labs:

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

© 2026 Cockroach Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

CockroachDB takes the best ideas from both worlds--scalable K-V store and relational ACID contracts--and combines 'em together!

Find out how in this fun conversation.

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Want to take CockroachDB for a spin? Then check out https://learn.cockroachlabs.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=select_star and get started!
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Also see 👀

✅ https://youtube.com/live/squwM1_rDYA?feature=share

✅ https://youtube.com/live/yP-3tV0QiuM?feature=share

Don't miss the podcast!

* https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/select-star-show/ - Find the SELECT STAR show on YOUR favorite podcasting platform!

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 Spring and RabbitMQ Advocate and Consultant for over 25+ years before joining Cockroach Labs. Worked also as 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. Recently the 3rd version of Pro Spring Boot for Java and Kotlin.

About Cockroach Labs:
Cockroach Labs is a pioneering software company at the forefront of database technology, dedicated to delivering resilient and scalable database solutions to run mission-critical workloads for the world's most important businesses. With a mission to scale when others fail, Cockroach Labs is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their data with its innovative cloud native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB.

© 2026 Cockroach Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Have an uber-big query you want to run but don't want to beat up your production cluster? Have a new idea for one of your apps but would rather test somewhere else? In this episode of SELECT STAR, learn how CockroachDB gives you the tools to setup a separate cluster and AUTOMATICALLY get updates from your primary cluster!

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

Also see:
- https://youtube.com/live/squwM1_rDYA?feature=share
- https://youtube.com/live/yP-3tV0QiuM?feature=share

Don't miss the podcast!
Find the SELECT STAR show on YOUR favorite podcasting platform!

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 Spring and RabbitMQ Advocate and Consultant for over 25+ years before joining Cockroach Labs. Worked also as 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. Recently the 3rd version of Pro Spring Boot for Java and Kotlin.

About Cockroach Labs:
Cockroach Labs is a pioneering software company at the forefront of database technology, dedicated to delivering resilient and scalable database solutions to run mission-critical workloads for the world's most important businesses. With a mission to scale when others fail, Cockroach Labs is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their data with its innovative cloud native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB.

© 2025 Cockroach Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Afraid of an outage? It's a real issue we must all guard against. But maybe you're not QUITE ready to upgrade to a multi-regional solution?

In this episode of SELECT STAR, learn how CockroachDB comes "batteries included" with the tools to create your own data replication strategy, letting you backup one cluster seamlessly to another cluster using its built in Logical Data Replication, and not some 3rd party bolted-on solution!

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

Also see 👀

• ✅ https://youtube.com/live/squwM1_rDYA?feature=share
• ✅ https://youtube.com/live/yP-3tV0QiuM?feature=share

Don't miss the podcast!

• https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/select-star-show/ - Find the SELECT STAR show on YOUR favorite podcasting platform!

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 Spring and RabbitMQ Advocate and Consultant for over 25+ years before joining Cockroach Labs. Worked also as 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. Recently the 3rd version of Pro Spring Boot for Java and Kotlin.

About Cockroach Labs:

Cockroach Labs is a pioneering software company at the forefront of database technology, dedicated to delivering resilient and scalable database solutions to run mission-critical workloads for the world's most important businesses. With a mission to scale when others fail, Cockroach Labs is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their data with its innovative cloud native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB.

© 2025 Cockroach Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

One of the biggest fears we ALL have...is watching our database get pounded in times of adversity.

In this episode of SELECT STAR, Cockroach Labs Technical Evangelist Rob Reid once again joins us. This time, to explore how Cockroach Labs TRIED to pulverize CockroachDB and turn it to dust...and ultimately FAILED!

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

Also see 👀

• https://youtube.com/live/squwM1_rDYA?feature=share
• https://youtube.com/live/yP-3tV0QiuM?feature=share

Don't miss the podcast!

• Find the SELECT STAR show on YOUR favorite podcasting platform!

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 Spring and RabbitMQ Advocate and Consultant for over 25+ years before joining Cockroach Labs. Worked also as 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. Recently the 3rd version of Pro Spring Boot for Java and Kotlin.

Cockroach Labs is a pioneering software company at the forefront of database technology, dedicated to delivering resilient and scalable database solutions to run mission-critical workloads for the world's most important businesses. With a mission to scale when others fail, Cockroach Labs is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their data with its innovative cloud native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB.

© 2025 Cockroach Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved.