Migrating a database is always a high-stakes operation. Downtime, data correctness, data loss, and customer experience are all on the line. Not to mention the business risk if a migration goes poorly. While there are a number of third-party tools that support data migration to CockroachDB, we have the expertise and insights into our product. We knew we could make migrations as efficient as possible in-house.

Becca Weng

January 21, 2026

Real-time AI isn’t a future ambition. It’s today’s business necessity. But powering fast, intelligent experiences in production takes more than just a good model. You need the right data infrastructure behind it.

Becca Weng

December 24, 2025

Every year, the holiday season puts extraordinary pressure on industries we rarely think of as seasonal powerhouses. While retailers dominate the headlines, there are many other companies that also quietly absorb the surge in traffic, transactions, and consumer expectation. Today we’ll focus on travel platforms, gambling and sportsbook operators, and fintech and payment providers. These sectors don’t just experience a bump; they face explosive, non-negotiable spikes that demand unwavering availability, real-time accuracy, and the ability to scale on command.

Becca Weng

December 23, 2025

As GenAI applications evolve from chat interfaces to autonomous agents, they are also introducing real infrastructure challenges. Model hallucinations, service outages, and scaling limitations are common blockers, especially for enterprise teams trying to move beyond proof of concept.

Becca Weng

December 16, 2025

This year the tech industry faced big changes: DORA regulations went into effect, the increasing adoption of AI and AI agents, and major outages. As our State of Resilience Report found earlier this year, organizations experience on average 86 outages each year. Within just one month, we saw critical services falter as AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare grappled with downtime. In 2025, the everyday consumer felt firsthand the impact of those outages: sites like X and ChatGPT malfunctioned, airlines suffered, and customer trust eroded.

Becca Weng

December 15, 2025

For Cockroach Labs and AWS, it’s been a year since we announced our Strategic Collaboration Agreement, and this is a moment to highlight how our partnership has grown. Today, we’re powering a new class of applications, from real-time genAI use-cases to scalable fintech platforms to globally resilient gaming experiences, ready to tackle the ever-changing landscape of tech advances.

Becca Weng

December 1, 2025

Modern applications demand agility, elasticity, and resilience, qualities that Kubernetes has made standard for stateless workloads. But what about databases, the inherently stateful core of every application stack? In our recent webinar, “Running Stateful at Scale: Scalable SQL Databases on Kubernetes,” Michael Wang, Director of Product Management, and Mark Zlamal, Enterprise Architect at Cockroach Labs, explored how CockroachDB bridges the gap between the reliability of traditional SQL databases and the scalability of cloud-native infrastructure.

Becca Weng

November 27, 2025

As part of our participation in Microsoft Ignite, Cockroach Labs hosted our latest Cockroach Connect, The Hidden Infrastructure Challenges Behind AI in San Francisco. In a day packed with activity, our CEO and co-founder Spencer Kimball moderated a powerhouse panel of investors: Peter Fenton (Benchmark), Satish Dharmaraj (Redpoint Ventures), and Lucas Swisher (Coatue). The conversation dove into the tectonic shifts underway in technology as AI redefines how systems and software are built, and how businesses operate.

Becca Weng

November 26, 2025

As modern applications expand across regions and clouds, the database layer often becomes the biggest constraint on growth. Global user bases, 24/7 availability expectations, and ever-evolving regulations have made the choice of database architecture more critical than ever. To help you make a better choice we’ve released a new whitepaper, CockroachDB vs. Amazon Aurora & DSQL: A Comprehensive Enterprise Distributed SQL Database Analysis. It takes a clear, technical look at how Amazon Aurora and Amazon DSQL database offerings stack up against CockroachDB when it comes to scale, resilience, and operational simplicity.

Becca Weng

November 19, 2025