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How to get zero-downtime scaling from single-region to multi-region applications

What's this blog post about?

CockroachDB offers features that make it easy to support applications in multiple regions. The new feature, Online Primary Key Changes, allows users to upgrade their application from single-region to multi-region with zero downtime. This blog post discusses the use cases and benefits of this feature. It provides examples on how to modify a primary key and demonstrates an entire MovR workload conversion to a multi-region cluster. The feature helps developers create multi-region applications, allowing them to grow their application from single-region to multi-region without downtime.

Company
Cockroach Labs

Date published
June 11, 2020

Author(s)
Andy Woods

Word count
1226

Language
English

Hacker News points
15


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