Cockroachdb: The Definitive Guide: Distributed Data at Scale (Paperback or Softback)

Guy Harrison is CTO at ProvenDB and a software professional with more than 20 years of experience in database design, development, administration, and optimization. He is the author of Next Generation Databases (Apress), MongoDB Performance Tuning (Apress), Oracle Performance Survival Guide (Prentice Hall), MySQL Stored Procedure Programming (O’Reilly), AI, Quantum Computing and Web3 (self-published), and many other books and articles on database technology.

Jesse Seldess is VP of Education at Cockroach Labs, where he leads the documentation and training teams. He has nearly 20 years of experience in technical documentation and has built teams from the ground up at Cockroach Labs and AppNexus (now Xandr).

Ben Darnell is the cofounder and chief architect at Cockroach Labs, where he built the distributed consensus protocols that underpin CockroachDB’s transactional model. He started his career at Google and then went on to a series of startups where he saw firsthand the need for better scalable storage systems.

Rob Reid is Cockroach Labs’ Technical Evangelist and a software developer from London, England. In his career, he has written backend, frontend, and messaging software for the police, travel, finance, commodities, sports betting, telecoms, retail, and aerospace industries. He is the author of Practical CockroachDB: Building Fault- Tolerant Distributed SQL Databases (Apress) and Understanding Multi-Region Application Architecture (O’Reilly) and has two CockroachDB tattoos.