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Speeding up cgo builds
Last updated Sep 9, 2017.

This advice no longer applies to CockroachDB, since we now build our C++ dependencies with cmake instead of CGo The go tool is used to build all of the CockroachDB source, including C and C++ dependencies ...

TeamCity Continuous Integration
Last updated Apr 13, 2017.

Overview We use JetBrains TeamCity for various continuous integration and testing tasks. Our instance is available at https://teamcity.cockroachdb.com - you may sign in with your GitHub OAuth credentials. ...

Tracing logs with Jaeger and Zipkin
Last updated Mar 1, 2018.

This guide will help you set up Zipkin tracing on a single node cockroach cluster running on your laptop. You may have been confused at various points about all the contexts we pass around. What is the ...

Unimplemented Features
Last updated Feb 26, 2018.

Unimplemented errors occur when CRDB recognizes a SQL feature but it is not yet supported. These unimplemented errors can be used by the product team to help prioritize the roadmap. These errors are also ...

Working As Reviewer
Last updated Jan 24, 2018.

Intro: Wikipedia's Code review More detailed guidelines / background: Karl E. Wiegers' Humanizing Peer Review Guidelines at Tumblr IBM's / SmartBear's best practices Jason Cohen's Four ...

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): ...

pprof
Last updated Apr 3, 2018.

Profiling Cockroach for fun and profit. go tool pprof is a profiling tool built into Go. It is useful for understanding hotspots in your code. One can profile a running cockroach binary, or a specific ...

Large Scale Testing
Last updated Apr 21, 2018.

workload Workload refers both to the package and the tool. The package is built around an abstraction, called Generator , and the tool has various bits for working with generators. Generator is abstraction ...

Issue labels
Last updated Apr 30, 2018.

The following is a complete list of the label groups. Each group itself might not be complete - for example, the code areas under the Area label category may change over time, and are not all represented ...

Building and running tests
Last updated May 4, 2018.

To build and run tests, just run make To run just presubmit checks ( golint etc): make check Running the tests for a package: make test PKG=./sql Verbose test output: make test PKG=./sql TESTFLAGS='-v' ...

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