Michelle Gienow
Senior Technical Content WriterMichelle Gienow is a recovering journalist turned front end developer based in Baltimore, MD. She creates content around her central obsessions: Jamstack, distributed architecture and developing a cloud native mindset.
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Top Three Reasons Behind Database Migrations
I recently moved into a new house. Boxes are everywhere. Little pieces of styrofoam surprise me everywhere I go. There are many noises I don’t recognize or understand. And the drill I’d forgotten I even owned now occupies a prime spot on my kitchen counter. I use it daily. I didn’t move to a new house because I thought moving would be fun, or even easy. I knew it would be a lot of work. I moved because my family needed more space. Which is just one of many reasons someone might decide to endure the pain of moving: Cost. Quality of life. Proximity to the people/places that are important to you.
Michelle Gienow
January 24, 2024
Inside CockroachDB 23.2: Stored procedures, UDFs, READ COMMITTED, and live migrations
CockroachDB 23.2 includes stored procedures/UDFs, performance boosts with smarter data distribution, physical replication, expedited recovery from cloud failures, and Read Committed isolation.
Michelle Gienow
January 18, 2024
Big Ideas: Top Ten Tips for App Builders in 2024
Michelle Gienow
January 17, 2024
True Tales of Survival: The $500 million dollar typo
It's amazing how a series of small but unfortunate events can quickly add up to one very expensive problem. Like the time one person fat-fingered the wrong year on a mainframe JCL job, Ronald Reagan died, and the US postal service lost $500 million.
Michelle Gienow
January 11, 2024
How Shopmonkey Built a Geo-Aware Auto Care Platform
At RoachFest '23, Shopmonkey Chief Technical Officer Jeff Haynie spoke about the compelling reasons the company moved their core business from Mongo to CockroachDB, and the architectural innovations they implemented to take advantage of CockroachDB’s unique multi-region capabilities.
Michelle Gienow
January 3, 2024
How to answer the question ‘when are we getting AI?’ without screaming inside
The question comes at you in the hallways, the cafeteria, even the restroom: "Hey, when are WE getting AI????" It's all anyone wants to talk to you about these days. Here is a handy four-step plan for evaluating and adopting AI so you can satisfy your curious co-workers, instead of simply screaming (on the inside, hopefully).
Michelle Gienow
December 22, 2023
Migrating PostgreSQL to CockroachDB For Multicloud
At RoachFest23, platform engineers Rogger Fabbri and Mario Morgado documented Form3's migration from PostgreSQL and demonstrated the platform's multi-cloud architecture, using CRDB and Kubernetes to span AWS, GCP and Azure with active-active replication to survive any event — even a full cloud outage.
Michelle Gienow
December 13, 2023
True Tales of Survival: Saving your data center with a bucket brigade
True story: It's October, 2012. A company decommissions its DR facility. Days later, Superstorm Sandy hits. You won't believe what happens next!
Michelle Gienow
November 30, 2023
How a sportsbetting and iCasino meets strict regulatory requirements with CockroachDB & AWS Outposts
Architects from Hard Rock Digital shares their journey building a sportsbetting and iCasino that can quickly enter new markets with CockroachDB and AWS Outposts.
Michelle Gienow
November 21, 2023