I published an article on the Cockroach Labs Blog: Nested transactions in CockroachDB 20.1. In this article, I explain how I implemented nested transactions and SQL savepoints in CockroachDB v20.1. Also available via the Wayback Machine.| dr knz @ work
What is faster: a local connection over a unix domain socket, or a local TCP/IP connection with TLS encryption? To a network expert, the answer seems intuitively obvious: the unix socket. But why? And by how much? Moreover, online docs and tutorials for both PostgreSQL and CockroachDB recommend—or …| dr knz @ work
On September 28, 2021, Melissa Amaya and Jon Purnell from the Data & Dev podcast interviewed me and Aaron Blum, lead engineer of the security team at Cockroach Labs. The focus was to understand what it takes to start in a computer security career, either fresh out of school or via …| dr knz @ work
On September 28, 2021, Melissa Amaya and Jon Purnell from the Data & Dev podcast interviewed me and Aaron Blum, lead engineer of the security team at Cockroach Labs. The focus was to understand what it takes to start in a computer security career, either fresh out of school or via …| dr knz @ work
In 2020, I published the following two articles: Data flows and security architecture in CockroachDB Authentication configuration in PostgreSQL and CockroachDB The original text was targeting version v20.1 of CockroachDB. This month, I have updated these two pages to reflect the improvements between v20.1 and the upcoming v22 …| dr knz @ work
