designing-multi-region-applications

designing-multi-region-applications is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cockroachdb/cursor-plugin. It costs 89 tokens per session (3,391 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of designing-multi-region-applications, Apache-2.0.

A guide to designing CockroachDB applications that store and process data across multiple geographic regions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare active-active and active-passive setups, choose regional table patterns, configure data placement, and validate multi-region demos.
Why use it?
It helps you choose how reads and writes should be distributed while managing local response times, cross-region delays, and consistency trade-offs.

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Any agent
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skills/cockroachdb-application-development/designing-multi-region-applications/SKILL.md · 335 lines

How it starts

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Designing Multi-Region Applications

Guides developers through selecting the right multi-region pattern for their CockroachDB application and implementing it with proper validation. Covers the decision model for choosing between regular regional tables, REGIONAL BY ROW, GLOBAL tables, and manual geo-partitioning, plus a hands-on demo framework for comparing approaches.

Complement to other skills: For transaction design patterns, see designing-application-transactions. For SQL syntax and schema design, see cockroachdb-sql.

When to Use This Skill

  • Deciding how to model multi-region read/write behavior in CockroachDB
  • Choosing between active-active and active-passive architectures
  • Evaluating REGIONAL BY ROW vs manual geo-partitioning
  • Understanding GLOBAL table behavior and trade-offs
  • Designing for local reads and writes in multiple regions
  • Building or presenting a multi-region demo or workshop
  • Validating leaseholder placement and zone configurations
  • Optimizing cross-region transaction latency

Do not use this skill when the question is only about SQL syntax, indexing, or generic schema design with no multi-region decision involved.

Prerequisites

  • Understanding of CockroachDB range architecture and leaseholder concepts
  • A multi-region cluster with nodes started using --locality=region=...,zone=... matching the regions used in the examples below. Without matching localities the DDL errors with region "..." does not exist and constraints like +region=... match no nodes. Quickest path locally:
    # 9-node demo with three regions, three AZs each — note --no-example-database
    cockroach demo --no-example-database --nodes=9 \
      --demo-locality=region=NA-NE,az=1:region=NA-NE,az=2:region=NA-NE,az=3:region=NA-MW,az=1:region=NA-MW,az=2:region=NA-MW,az=3:region=EU-DE,az=1:region=EU-DE,az=2:region=EU-DE,az=3
    
    For long-running clusters, see setting-up-local-cluster and add --locality=region=...,zone=... to each cockroach start invocation.
  • Knowledge of application write patterns (single-region vs multi-region)

Read the full file on GitHub · 335 lines

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designing-multi-region-applications is a skill published in the GitHub repository cockroachdb/cursor-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 3,391 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to designing-multi-region-applications, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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