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How to get zero-downtime scaling from single-region to multi-region applications
Blog post from Cockroach Labs
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Date Published
Author
Andy Woods
Word Count
1,226
Language
English
Hacker News Points
15
Summary
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.