Get a practical introduction to CockroachDB. This book starts with installation and
foundational concepts and takes you through to creating clusters that are ready for production
environments. You will learn how to create optimize and operate CockroarchDB clusters in
single and multi-region environments. You will encounter anti-patterns to avoid as well as
testing techniques for integration and load testing. The book explains why CockroachDB exists
goes over its major benefits and quickly transitions into installing and configuring
CockroachDB. Just as quickly you'll be creating databases getting data into those databases
and querying that data from your applications. You'll progress to data privacy laws such as
GDPR and CCPA and learn how CockroachDB's global distribution features can help you comply
with ever-shifting data sovereignty regulations. From there you'll move into deployment
topologies guidance on integration testing and load testing best practices and a readiness
checklist for production deployments. What You Will Learn Deploy and interact with CockroachDB
Design and optimize databases and tables Choose the correct data types for modeling your data
Protect data with database and table encryption Achieve compliance with international data
privacy regulations Scale your databases in a way that enhances their performance Monitor
changes to the data and health of your databases Who This Book Is For Developers and database
administrators who want to provide a secure reliable and effortlessly distributed home for
their data those who wish to use a modern tool to tackle the kinds of scaling challenges that
have previously required dedicated teams of people to solve anyone who wants to leverage their
database to solve non-trivial real-world challenges while protecting their data and users
