Nate is the Chief Product Officer at Cockroach Labs. Prior to Cockroach Labs, he built the NYC product management organization for the venture-backed marketing SaaS company, Percolate. Outside of product, his experience spans engineering and business. Nate was a lead backend software developer at Bloomberg L.P. and received his MBA from MIT.
Engineering
Product
Company
CockroachDB Serverless is generally available and more product updates
When we set out to build a better relational database seven years ago, we envisioned a solution that was scalable, highly available, and always consistent, because as we said then, “we’d rather spend time quickly building and iterating products, not engineering solutions to database shortcomings.” Today, after developing a database that delivers those capabilities and has been battle-tested by thousands of customers, we’re still following the same northstar. But we’ve extended that vision.
Nate Stewart
September 21, 2022
Product
DASH: How to evaluate Kubernetes-native databases
Cloud-native application architectures help developers deliver amazing experiences to their customers around the world. They do this by taking advantage of billions in cloud provider investments, which provide nearly unlimited and on-demand resources spread across hundreds of data centers globally.
Nate Stewart
July 29, 2021
Product
CockroachDB 2.1: Easier migrations and a 5x scalability improvement
CockroachDB was built to help teams scale their applications across the globe without sacrificing SQL’s convenience, power, and data-integrity guarantees. In CockroachDB 2.1, we’ve made it easier than ever to migrate from MySQL and Postgres, improved our scalability on transactional workloads by 5x, and launched a managed offering to help teams deploy low-latency, multi-region clusters with minimal operator overhead.
Nate Stewart
November 1, 2018
Product
CockroachDB 2.0 has arrived!
CockroachDB debuted as the open source database that made it possible to build massive, reliable cloud applications without giving up SQL. Forward-thinking companies adopted it to hide the complexity of dealing with distributed scale, resilience, and consistency problems in the database layer. The promise was simple: keep your apps simple and your pagers silent. Over the last six months, we’ve welcomed Mesosphere as a customer and helped companies like Kindred and Baidu continue to migrate internet-scale workloads onto CockroachDB. We’ve also watched our distributed SQL database enable exciting new use cases, from a blockchain solution for certifying document authenticity to a system of record for tracking simulations that help optimize oil and gas exploration.
Nate Stewart
April 4, 2018
Product
Kicking the tires: Automated CockroachDB test cluster deployment in AWS
Today, we’re providing an automated way to setup multi-node CockroachDB clusters so developers can easily try out the latest stable and pre-release functionality. To automate test cluster deployment, we combine AWS CloudFormation (Amazon’s infrastructure automation product) with Kubernetes to let users spin up self-healing, horizontally scaling test clusters with just a couple clicks.
Nate Stewart
January 11, 2018
Product
CockroachDB 1.1 released: Production made easy
Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of CockroachDB 1.1. We’ve spent the last five months incorporating feedback from our customers and community, and making improvements that will help even more teams move to CockroachDB. We are also excited to share success stories from a few of our customers. Baidu, one the world’s largest internet companies, shares how they are using CockroachDB to automate operations for applications that process 50M inserts and 2 TB of data daily. Heroic Labs, a software startup, shares how they simplified deployment of their gaming platform-as-a-service by packaging CockroachDB inside each server. CockroachDB 1.1 focuses on three areas: seamless migration from legacy databases, simplified cluster management, and improved performance in real-world environments.
Nate Stewart
October 12, 2017
System
Avoid vendor lock-in risk with multi-cloud deployments
As businesses outsource their infrastructure to public cloud providers they are in turn taking on major risks. In a recent piece by Financial News (gated), senior executives at Goldman Sachs and Standard Chartered warned that an overreliance on a small band of cloud service providers could result in a major hack or outage wreaking havoc on the global banking system. Lock-in is a global issue: Bain’s Cloud Computing Survey noted that the share of respondents citing vendor lock-in as a “top three concern” grew from 7% to 23% from 2012 to 2015. Of course, cloud vendor lock-in issues extend beyond uptime risk; they also include the regulatory risk of changes in data sovereignty policies or the financial risk of having to endure price hikes without any negotiating power; Dropbox went so far as to migrate off of AWS and onto their own system to get control of their costs.
Nate Stewart
October 3, 2017