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GDPR & Data Regulations

Modernizing Database Authentication: CockroachDB Embraces Zero Trust with SPIFFE and SPIRE Support

In the evolution of cloud-native security, identity has become the new perimeter.

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Sanchit Khanna

March 13, 2026

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Case Studies

From MySQL to CockroachDB at Groww: A Staged Production Migration

Groww is India’s #1 stock broker with 16 million active users and $11 billion in market cap.

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Sourav De

March 11, 2026

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AI scale has no time for Postgres bottlenecks

30% of leaders say the database is the first point of failure in AI overload scenarios. That is not because teams chose the wrong cloud. It is not because they miscalculated capacity. It is because most traditional databases were built for a different era of computing. They were designed around vertical growth, predictable traffic, and human-paced interaction. AI breaks all three assumptions at once.

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Becca Weng

March 10, 2026

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Company

RKO 2026: Unstoppable in Atlanta

Before RKO 2026 officially began, its theme – Unstoppable — was already on display.

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David Weiss

March 6, 2026

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Scale & Resilience

Agent Development with CockroachDB using the LangChain Framework

Recently we launched an integration with LangChain, the most popular orchestration framework for developing applications with large language models, to simplify development of production-ready agentic AI applications with CockroachDB. This integration provides out-of-the-box support for CockroachDB as a vector source for any LangChain user using LangChain Python.

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David Bressler

February 26, 2026

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Scale & Resilience

Banking & Fintech

Scaling Payments in the Age of Real-Time Fraud: Building a Resilient Foundation for Fintech

Fintech is one of the most competitive and highly regulated industries in the world. Whether you’re a payment processor, digital-first bank, trading platform, or wallet provider, your infrastructure is directly tied to customer trust. In this environment, outages aren’t just technical incidents; a single missed transaction, delayed authorization, or moment of downtime can erode customer confidence instantly.

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Becca Weng

February 25, 2026

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Scale & Resilience

Gaming Platform

Two Betting Platforms, One Lesson: The Database Matters

In betting and gaming, growth is rarely gradual. Traffic spikes around major sporting events. Millions of real-time transactions hit your platform at once, and every one of them has to be correct. When the database falters, the consequences aren’t abstract. Revenue stops. Players lose trust. Regulators start asking questions.

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Becca Weng

February 24, 2026

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Retail & Ecommerce

Payments

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Is Your Payment Infrastructure Ready for Agentic Payments?

If you own payments infrastructure, platform stability, or risk controls at a payments company, this article’s title is not a rhetorical question.

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Jim Harris

February 20, 2026

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User Metadata

Why Squarespace migrated global data workloads from PostgreSQL to CockroachDB

Every year at RoachFest, we hear directly from the teams running some of the most demanding data workloads in production. RoachFest 2025 was no different—except this year, a clear theme emerged across customer sessions: primary data and metadata are often mission-critical.

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Becca Weng

February 18, 2026

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