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On March 25, 2025, Cockroach Labs hosted one of our Use Case Cafés, a lunch and learn that focuses on a key use case. This particular event highlighted the intersection of FinTech and modern payment systems. The event provided valuable insights into the role of CockroachDB in transforming payment systems to meet the needs of today’s fast-paced financial environment. Shannon Dew, Principal Sales Engineer at Cockroach Labs, and Scott Traver, Senior Software Architect at Spreedly, offered their expertise on why modernizing data infrastructure is critical to those handling payments, and how CockroachDB helped Spreedly tackle their journey to the cloud.

Becca Weng

April 14, 2025

For global edtech leader Qoria, data isn't just part of the IT infrastructure — it’s the heart of its mission to protect children online, everywhere they connect.

David Weiss

April 11, 2025

So you were worried about a failure, and it happened. Despite all of the planning, something went wrong, and now the goal is to minimize the impact of that failure. As part of our blog series, “Surviving Failures with CockroachDB,” this blog will cover what your options are when things inevitably fail.

Alicia Lu

April 9, 2025

Today, two CockroachDB tattoos, one RoachFest London MC gig, dozens of webinars and events, and 116 YouTube videos (and counting) later, Rob Reid is proud to have his name on CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition (O’Reilly Media, 2025), which we are launching today!

Becca Weng

April 8, 2025

Picture this: You own a bakery, and every evening, you need to store your secret recipes in a secure vault. You have two options: manually carrying them to a safe deposit box, or using a trusted courier service that ensures their safety without exposing your key.

Ben Sherrill

April 7, 2025

It is essential for today’s mission-critical applications to operate without interruptions, such as online banking systems that handle millions of transactions daily or healthcare systems managing real-time patient data. In these verticals and many more, downtime or data loss can result in significant financial and reputational damage, such as lost revenue from disrupted transactions, penalties for regulatory non-compliance, and erosion of customer trust due to perceived unreliability, making resilience and availability paramount.

Mark Johnson

April 4, 2025

Database migrations are complex, and ensuring the migrated data is 100% correct is critical. After all, a migration isn’t over until you feel confident and comfortable cutting over to the new infrastructure. To streamline migrations, Cockroach Labs created the MOLT (Migrate Off Legacy Technology) toolkit, which includes three tools that improve different parts of the user journey.

Jeremy Yang

April 2, 2025

The team at Cockroach Labs has worked with dozens of companies (including Fortune 50 retailers) that use CockroachDB in production today. Here’s three customer stories describing how they use CockroachDB to support mission-critical use cases.

Cassie McAllister

April 1, 2025

Modernizing trading infrastructure: It’s an imperative for capital markets firms seeking to maintain their competitive edge in today's fast-evolving financial landscape. 

David Weiss

March 31, 2025