SELECT STAR

EP 30: Ranges: The Building Block of Everything

Saying CockroachDB “just shards data” is a serious understatement. Under the hood, it uses powerful mechanisms to deliver resilience and consistency—while also giving you control over data placement for compliance, performance, and more. In this episode of SELECT STAR, discover the core mechanism that enables CockroachDB to scale without sacrificing ACID guarantees. ======== Want to try CockroachDB? Get started here: https://learn.cockroachlabs.com [https://learn.cockroachlabs.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=select_star] ======== Also see 👀 Episode link 1 [https://youtube.com/live/squwM1_rDYA?feature=share] Episode link 2 [https://youtube.com/live/yP-3tV0QiuM?feature=share] Don’t miss the podcast! Find SELECT STAR on your favorite podcast platform [https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/select-star-show/] About the hosts Greg L. Turnquist spent over thirteen years on the Spring team before joining Cockroach Labs as a Technical Content Engineer. He led Spring Data JPA and Spring Web Services, contributed across the Spring ecosystem, and authored multiple books including Learning Spring Boot and 12 Rules for Pro Coders. Felipe Gutierrez brings 25+ years of experience as a Spring and RabbitMQ advocate, consultant, and instructor. He has authored several Apress titles including Pro Spring Boot, Spring Boot Messaging, and Pro Spring Cloud Data Flow. About Cockroach Labs Cockroach Labs builds resilient, scalable database solutions for mission-critical workloads. Its cloud-native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB, helps organizations scale when others fail. © 2026 Cockroach Labs, Inc.

EP 29: Where Does Your Data Live?

CockroachDB stores your data across a distributed system for resilience and protection. But where does it go—and how does it know how to survive server failures, regional outages, and more? In this episode of SELECT STAR, explore a core building block that helps CockroachDB understand and adapt to your system’s topology. ======== Want to try CockroachDB? Get started here: https://learn.cockroachlabs.com [https://learn.cockroachlabs.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=select_star] ======== Also see 👀 Episode link 1 [https://youtube.com/live/squwM1_rDYA?feature=share] Episode link 2 [https://youtube.com/live/yP-3tV0QiuM?feature=share] Don’t miss the podcast! Find SELECT STAR on your favorite podcast platform [https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/select-star-show/] About the hosts Greg L. Turnquist spent over thirteen years on the Spring team before joining Cockroach Labs as a Technical Content Engineer. He led Spring Data JPA and Spring Web Services, contributed across the Spring ecosystem, and authored multiple books including Learning Spring Boot and 12 Rules for Pro Coders. Felipe Gutierrez brings 25+ years of experience as a Spring and RabbitMQ advocate, consultant, and instructor. He has authored several Apress titles including Pro Spring Boot, Spring Boot Messaging, and Pro Spring Cloud Data Flow. About Cockroach Labs Cockroach Labs builds resilient, scalable database solutions for mission-critical workloads. Its cloud-native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB, helps organizations scale when others fail. © 2026 Cockroach Labs, Inc.

EP 28: Read Local, Think Global - Your Key to Effective Data Management

In a distributed system, the answer to your query might be halfway around the world. So how do you handle that cost when you need results fast? In this episode of SELECT STAR, discover practical ways to “beat the system” and get low-latency answers—even when your data lives on another continent. ======== Want to try CockroachDB? Get started here: https://learn.cockroachlabs.com [https://learn.cockroachlabs.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=select_star] ======== Also see 👀 Episode link 1 [https://youtube.com/live/squwM1_rDYA?feature=share] Episode link 2 [https://youtube.com/live/yP-3tV0QiuM?feature=share] Don’t miss the podcast! Find SELECT STAR on your favorite podcast platform [https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/select-star-show/] About the hosts Greg L. Turnquist spent over thirteen years on the Spring team before joining Cockroach Labs as a Technical Content Engineer. He led Spring Data JPA and Spring Web Services, contributed across the Spring ecosystem, and authored multiple books including Learning Spring Boot and 12 Rules for Pro Coders. Felipe Gutierrez brings 25+ years of experience as a Spring and RabbitMQ advocate, consultant, and instructor. He has authored several Apress titles including Pro Spring Boot, Spring Boot Messaging, and Pro Spring Cloud Data Flow. About Cockroach Labs Cockroach Labs builds resilient, scalable database solutions for mission-critical workloads. Its cloud-native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB, helps organizations scale when others fail. © 2026 Cockroach Labs, Inc.

EP 27: Embrace the Retry

CockroachDB protects you from data anomalies with serializable transactions—but that guarantee isn’t free. What do you need to do to make it work in a distributed enterprise? Find out in this episode of SELECT STAR. ======== Want to try CockroachDB? Get started here: https://learn.cockroachlabs.com [https://learn.cockroachlabs.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=select_star] ======== Also see 👀 Episode link 1 [https://youtube.com/live/squwM1_rDYA?feature=share] Episode link 2 [https://youtube.com/live/yP-3tV0QiuM?feature=share] Don’t miss the podcast! Find SELECT STAR on your favorite podcast platform [https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/select-star-show/] About the hosts Greg L. Turnquist spent over thirteen years on the Spring team before joining Cockroach Labs as a Technical Content Engineer. He led Spring Data JPA and Spring Web Services, contributed across the Spring ecosystem, and authored multiple books including Learning Spring Boot and 12 Rules for Pro Coders. Felipe Gutierrez brings 25+ years of experience as a Spring and RabbitMQ advocate, consultant, and instructor. He has authored several Apress titles including Pro Spring Boot, Spring Boot Messaging, and Pro Spring Cloud Data Flow. About Cockroach Labs Cockroach Labs builds resilient, scalable database solutions for mission-critical workloads. Its cloud-native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB, helps organizations scale when others fail. © 2026 Cockroach Labs, Inc.

EP 26: Fundamentals of Software in 2026 // DevNexus 2026

Some people say we can get rid of software education altogether. But is that true? In this episode of SELECT STAR, I sat down with Java Champion and Spring Developer Advocate Dan Vega. He shares why fundamentals matter more than ever. ======== Want to take CockroachDB for a spin? Check out: https://learn.cockroachlabs.com [https://learn.cockroachlabs.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=select_star] ======== Also see 👀 Episode link 1 [https://youtube.com/live/squwM1_rDYA?feature=share] Episode link 2 [https://youtube.com/live/yP-3tV0QiuM?feature=share] Don’t miss the podcast! Find SELECT STAR on your favorite podcast platform [https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/select-star-show/] About the hosts Greg L. Turnquist worked on the Spring team for over thirteen years before joining Cockroach Labs as a Technical Content Engineer. He was the lead developer for Spring Data JPA and Spring Web Services, contributed to multiple Spring projects, and authored several books including Learning Spring Boot and 12 Rules for Pro Coders. Felipe Gutierrez has over 25 years of experience as a Spring and RabbitMQ advocate, consultant, and instructor. He has authored multiple Apress titles including Pro Spring Boot, Spring Boot Messaging, and Pro Spring Cloud Data Flow. About Cockroach Labs Cockroach Labs builds resilient, scalable database solutions for mission-critical workloads. Its cloud-native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB, helps organizations scale when others fail. © 2026 Cockroach Labs, Inc.