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David Weiss

Senior Technical Content Marketer

David Weiss is Senior Technical Content Marketer for Cockroach Labs. In addition to data, his deep content portfolio includes cloud, SaaS, cybersecurity, and crypto/blockchain. He is the co-author of “Music Supervision”, the leading college textbook on synch licensing. Off-hours, David loves drumming, cooking, and small animal rescue.

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Migrations

How to Consolidate Your Database Stack for Production AI

When builders ship AI-powered applications, the data layer quietly becomes the hardest part of the stack.

David Weiss

July 28, 2026

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PostgreSQL-Compatible Databases for AI at Scale: What to Evaluate from Day One

The database you choose at the start of an AI project is the one you'll be living with, or paying to escape, for years.

David Weiss

June 29, 2026

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Distributed SQL

How to Choose a Database for an AI-Powered Product

Organizations across fintech, healthcare, retail, gaming, SaaS, and scores more verticals are embedding AI into business-critical offerings.

David Weiss

June 1, 2026

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Cockroach Labs Achieves AWS Generative AI Competency for Production AI Infrastructure

Cockroach Labs is pleased to announce we have achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Generative AI Competency.

David Weiss

May 19, 2026

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Scale & Resilience

8 AI Use Cases That Depend on Database Resilience

As AI systems become embedded in core business workflows, they increasingly interact directly with systems of record, turning model outputs into durable state changes.

David Weiss

April 30, 2026

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Events

Cockroach Connect Supper Club: AI Is Not a Feature. It’s a Systems Problem.

Last week in San Francisco, Cockroach Labs hosted a private dinner: "Cockroach Connect: The Enterprise Reckoning."

David Weiss

April 22, 2026

Portrait of Becca Taft, Director, Engineering at Cockroach Labs, highlighting leadership in distributed systems and database innovation.

Company

Building Distributed Systems for the Real World: How Becca Taft Engineers for Scale

When Becca Taft first sat in on one of Michael Stonebraker's research group meetings at MIT, she wasn't planning to work on databases.

David Weiss

April 16, 2026

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Banking & Fintech

Why Does Fintech Break at Scale? Build for Resilience

The fintech companies and quant firms that define the next decade aren't just building better products. They're succeeding with more resilient fintech infrastructure.

David Weiss

April 2, 2026

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Generative AI

Scaling Aerospace Systems Without a Central Control Plane

Aerospace has a scaling problem, but it's not about data volume alone.

David Weiss

March 17, 2026

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