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Becca Weng

Senior Content Marketing Manager

Becca Weng is the Senior Content Marketing Manager at Cockroach Labs, and is passionate about making technical conversations accessible to everyone. In addition, she is pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Previously, she worked as a content writer at Google, and at a seed-stage data science startup, Einblick, which was acquired by Databricks in February 2024.

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Scale & Resilience

RoachFest Recap: Why Starburst Deploys CockroachDB in Six Regions

One of the reasons we love hosting RoachFest, our global event series for data professionals, is that it brings together a community focused on operational resilience and performance at scale.

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Becca Weng

December 2, 2024

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AWS

Scale & Resilience

AWS re:Invent 2024 – Explore Resilience with Cockroach Labs

Our team will be on-site at Booth #444 from December 2 to December 5 to share with you all that we’ve been working on this year, and how you can leverage Cockroach Labs with AWS to build a modern data infrastructure that is resilient to cloud and data infrastructure failures. Read on to learn more about our work with AWS, what to expect from Cockroach Labs at AWS re:Invent, and what sessions we are most excited to attend.

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Becca Weng

November 18, 2024

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Scale & Resilience

Database Modernization

Cloud Journeys: Multi-Cloud and Beyond with Distributed SQL

Today, businesses are increasingly investing in multi-cloud strategies as a part of data modernization to enhance resilience, scalability, and operational efficiency. In the final installment of our series on Cloud Journeys with Distributed SQL, this blog post explores the benefits of working with CockroachDB to achieve multi-cloud.

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Becca Weng

November 12, 2024

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Scale & Resilience

Database Modernization

Cloud Journeys: Getting to Multi-Region with Distributed SQL

While the first phase of cloud adoption involves deploying applications across region specific data centers or availability zones, the second phase of cloud adoption involves deploying data infrastructure across multiple regions to support global applications that require low-latency connectivity and redundancy across large geographical areas.

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Becca Weng

October 31, 2024

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Scale & Resilience

Engineering

A Conversation with Peter Mattis: Inherent Resilience for Tomorrow’s Outage

In our recent webinar, Peter Mattis, CTO and CPO at Cockroach Labs, and Rob Reid, Technical Evangelist at Cockroach Labs, shared expertise on the critical aspects of building resilient systems and the profound impact of downtime on modern businesses. Throughout the conversation, they shared lessons from their careers, insights from working with customers, and fielded questions from the audience.

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Becca Weng

October 22, 2024

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Scale & Resilience

Database Modernization

Cloud Journeys: Getting to Hybrid with Distributed SQL

To showcase how the cloud has worked for companies across the globe and across industries, we’re kicking off a new blog series: Cloud Journeys with Distributed SQL. In this first post we will share some stories of how enterprises have moved from on-premise legacy database solutions to hybrid or single region cloud deployments by leveraging our distributed SQL database, CockroachDB.

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Becca Weng

October 15, 2024

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Scale & Resilience

Celebrating 12 Cameos from 50 Big Ideas in App Architecture

Each week, listeners can tune into Big Ideas in App Architecture, our podcast for architects and engineers who are building modern, data-intensive applications and systems. To honor the 50th episode release, and all the guests who have shared their insights and experiences with us along the way, we’re looking back at 12 of our most popular episodes spanning topics like navigating industry changes, building efficient engineering organizations, tackling the new world of AI, and building reliable, distributed systems.

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Becca Weng

October 4, 2024

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Events

Product

New Product Announcements Kick Off RoachFest 2024

During RoachFest NYC we unveiled new product capabilities to meet the evolving challenges of the data landscape – as industries move towards more cloud and AI-driven solutions.

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Becca Weng

September 26, 2024

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Engineering

Software & Tech

Multi-tenancy for SaaS: 6 Takeaways from a Senior Principal Cloud Architect

Tod Golding, Senior Principal Cloud Architect and Global SaaS Tech Lead at AWS, has spent the last 7 years of his career focused on cloud-optimized architecture design. He joined Cockroach Labs’ Technical Evangelist, Rob Reid, for a conversation on "Debunking Myths around Multi-Tenancy."

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Becca Weng

September 16, 2024

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