David Weiss
Senior Technical Content MarketerDavid 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.
Company
RKO 2026: Unstoppable in Atlanta
Before RKO 2026 officially began, its theme – Unstoppable — was already on display.
David Weiss
March 6, 2026
Database Modernization
What Database Modernization Means in the Cloud Era
Database modernization is a priority for many enterprises in 2026, as pressure builds for applications to grow more distributed, failure-tolerant, and globally accessible. Increasing cloud deployments may seem like a quick cure...
David Weiss
February 9, 2026
The Top Alternatives to Oracle and Amazon Aurora for Cloud-Scale Workloads
Oracle and Amazon Aurora continue to power many mission-critical applications. As cloud-scale workloads evolve, however, the definition of "enterprise-ready" has fundamentally shifted.
David Weiss
January 16, 2026
ai
SQL
Why Modern AI Workloads Need Distributed Database Architecture
AI workloads have become business-critical applications. Agentic systems, real-time inference, recommendation engines, fraud detection, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) are live and impacting the customer experience.
David Weiss
December 30, 2025
2025
Scale & Resilience
Business
Outages Observer: Learning from 2025's Top Outages to Build Unbreakable Systems in 2026
If 2024 was the year outage anxiety crept into boardrooms, 2025 was the year fragility became impossible to ignore.
David Weiss
December 17, 2025
Banking & Fintech
SQL
Why FinTech Is Moving to Distributed SQL Databases
FinTech teams are operating under more pressure than ever. As digital financial services become the default for consumers and enterprises alike, the margin for error has all but disappeared. Users expect every interaction to be instantaneous, accurate, and always available, with very little patience for anything less.
David Weiss
December 12, 2025
ai
Company
Connecting the Data Dots: How Isaac Wong Leads R&D at Cockroach Labs
When Isaac Wong talks about building systems, he puts people before servers or code. A mathematician turned engineering leader, Wong is constantly connecting abstract theory with real-world resilience. Today, as Executive Vice President of R&D at Cockroach Labs, he leads teams shaping one of the world’s most advanced distributed databases.
David Weiss
December 10, 2025
Outages Observer: When A Region or Cloud Fails, Resilience Must Be Automatic
AWS’s us-east-1 region stumbled last month, and the businesses buckled. Our customers didn’t. CockroachDB clusters continued serving global traffic without disruption – proving what “resilience by design” really means.
David Weiss
November 14, 2025
The Database Capabilities That Power Vector Search in AI Applications
Vector search is the backbone of intelligent AI experiences: semantic search, personalization, recommendations, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). But storing and querying high-dimensional embeddings at scale is only part of the challenge.
David Weiss
October 30, 2025