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Multiple GOPATHs
Last updated Feb 4, 2016.

Sometimes you want to work on different changes in parallel - most importantly, to be able to run a slow test on one change while developing another change. For this we need multiple clones of our repository ...

Ben's Go Emacs setup
Last updated Feb 4, 2016.

(This information was current as of 1/11/2016) In case you're interested, here's what I'm using in emacs now. I think these instructions will be at least somewhat repeatable. First, use an ...

Execution Tracing a SQL Query
Last updated Feb 10, 2016.

NB: “trace” or “tracing” herein refers to the go runtime’s tracing. This is not the distributed tracing, which is the instrumentation we add at the application level, although these certainly overlap in ...

Code hacks
Last updated Apr 18, 2016.

Inject a retryable error in an UPDATE statement on a marked row Add the following snippet above https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/ef7138bc3fd7261ac40f84762c87f45846f41fe4/cli/start.go#L171 ...

Life of a transaction
Last updated Jun 6, 2016.

NOTE: Much of the code referenced (such as HTTPSender and RunTransaction) is now deprecated. This guide is out of date. This page is a walkthrough of the client and server code involved in a transaction, ...

Developing on AWS or GCE
Last updated Jul 22, 2016.

When running benchmarks or resource intensive stress tests, it can be helpful to run on a GCE or AWS instance -- trying to do anything else (even just web browsing) can be difficult, plus laptops have ...

licence cla PR glitch
Last updated Jul 27, 2016.

If a PR fails a status check with licence/cla — Waiting for status to be reported , log into https://cla-assistant.io/ and click Recheck PRs (under ... ). Older instructions (courtesy of Tamir in #7553): ...

Code Coverage
Last updated Jul 27, 2016.

Coverage is computed in a nightly teamcity build . This coverage ignores any automatically generated files such as protocol buffers as well as binaries that aren't necessary for running cockroach. ...

Radu's vim setup
Last updated Oct 25, 2016.

Quick and dirty tips for how to get started with vim and go . 1. Install pathogen mkdir -p ~ /.vim/autoload ~ /.vim/bundle curl -LSso ~ /.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim https://tpo.pe/pathogen.vim And add to ...

Readings
Last updated Feb 8, 2017.

A good starting point is Andy Pavlo's "What's New with NewSQL" survey paper on NewSQL, which also covers the history of SQL and NoSQL databases. You might also find some lectures from ...

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