Cockroach University: Free, Engaging Online Curriculum on Modern Database Technology

Cockroach University is a free online curriculum that provides an engaging learning experience on modern database technology. Launched six months ago, it has seen nearly 2,000 enrollments and serves as a resource for developers to learn how to build applications or proof-of-concepts using CockroachDB. The university offers hands-on exercises and covers topics such as scaling databases horizontally, monitoring cluster activity, leveraging distributed transactions with ACID guarantees, surviving node and data center failure, and working with PostgreSQL API. A new course for Python developers is in the works, set to be released this summer. Upon completion of a course, participants receive a Certificate of Completion and can opt-in for a swag package from Cockroach Labs.