This past February, before the pandemic was deemed a pandemic and New York City was still humming along, as usual, I sat down at Cockroach Labs HQ to talk about the future of data in application development. It’s a broad topic and one that’s about to undergo a fundamental and immutable shift. We’ll get to why in just a minute.

Spencer Kimball

August 3, 2020

Today, we are pleased to announce the release of CockroachDB 1.0, the first open source, cloud-native SQL database. We’re also announcing a series B fundraise from investors who share our vision. The launch of 1.0 marks our graduation from beta to a production-ready database, designed to power business at any scale from the startup to the enterprise. A brief introduction is in order. While databases aren’t generally considered the most thrilling subject in technology news, ignoring them would be a mistake. Understanding the ongoing evolution of databases brings into focus a ruthless arms race between what businesses need to do with data, and what existing technologies struggle to provide. The most insistent pressures have forced databases alternatively to become faster, bigger, and more reliable. Then again: faster, bigger, and more reliable. And the cycle continues.

Spencer Kimball

May 10, 2017