How watching Google evolve distributed transactional databases inspired three engineers to bring these innovations to the enterprise.

The New Stack is a publication covering trends and technologies in cloud-native development, DevOps, and software delivery. Developers can learn about containerization, Kubernetes, and cloud computing, as well as explore topics such as microservices architecture, serverless computing, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

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Spencer Kimball, co-founder of Cockroach Labs, discusses the limitations of sharding databases, the development of CockroachDB to meet scalability requirements, and the importance of cloud portability.

Q&A: Cockroach Labs’ Spencer Kimball on Distributing SQL