In this episode of the Spring Office Hours podcast, Greg Turnquist, who previously worked with the Spring Data JPA team and is now at Cockroach Labs, joins the conversation. They delve into CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database that operates on a key-value store, showcasing its outstanding reliability and consistency, even in the face of regional outages. The discussion further examines how to effectively use CockroachDB with Spring, highlighting the choice between JdbcTemplate and JdbcClient for various needs within Spring Data JPA. The podcast also addresses the influence of AI on software development and stresses the necessity of keeping up with the latest Spring releases for enhanced security and performance.
