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This past February, before the pandemic was deemed a pandemic and New York City was still humming along, as usual, I sat down at Cockroach Read More
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In December 2019, we published the 2020 Cloud Report and an accompanying blog post, which summarized original research we conducted benchmarking the performance of Amazon Read More
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Since 2017, Cockroach Labs has run thousands of benchmark tests across dozens of machine types with the goal of better understanding performance across cloud providers. Read More