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CockroachDB Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Is Now Available in Public Preview

For a certain set of customers, the conversation about CockroachDB Cloud always hits the same wall.

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David Bressler

May 11, 2026

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Multi-Region Database Architecture: Three Patents on SQL Abstractions, Data Placement, and Locality-Aware Query Planning

Multi-region deployments are often motivated by resilience: If a region goes down, your system should keep serving traffic. But resilience is only part of the story.

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Rebecca Taft

April 9, 2026

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Test Database Resilience with the CockroachDB Fault Tolerance Demo

The CockroachDB database fault tolerance demo lets you trigger a real availability zone (AZ) failure within your cluster.

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David Bressler

April 8, 2026

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Bringing Application-Level Observability to CockroachDB: Query Tagging

Building mission-critical applications on CockroachDB demands robust observability. In complex, microservices-oriented architectures, it can be especially hard to correlate activity and pinpoint problems between different application services and the database layer.

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Kevin Ngo

February 6, 2026

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How CockroachDB’s AI Assistance Boosts Developer Productivity

CockroachDB users don’t all show up in the same place or follow the same path. Some are just starting to evaluate distributed SQL. Others are deep in implementation details, or they may already be operating cloud-based clusters. A growing number are building day-to-day with an AI coding assistant open alongside their editor.

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Kiki Carter

February 5, 2026

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CockroachDB v26.1: Going Deep on Security and Compliance for our Most Demanding Customers

Enterprise security is a key factor in reducing cost-of-ownership and getting new solutions into production efficiently. With CockroachDB v26.1, available as of February 3rd in CockroachDB Cloud and February 18th for CockroachDB self-hosted, we are introducing security improvements that help organizations integrate CockroachDB more seamlessly with their existing security infrastructure.

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David Bressler

February 3, 2026

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How to Simulate Resilient, Real-Time Anomaly Detection with CockroachDB and Kafka

When it comes to real-time applications, resilience isn't a nice-to-have, it’s a necessity. In this post, we’ll walk through a live demo designed to stress-test CockroachDB’s ability to detect anomalies in a stream of financial transactions. Along the way, we’ll simulate production traffic, observe latency under load, and scale our detection pipeline on the fly.

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Rob Reid

January 26, 2026

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Mastering Physical Cluster Replication for Disaster Recovery with CockroachDB

In today's data-driven world, the continuity of database operations is not just a technical requirement; it's a cornerstone of business success. For applications built on CockroachDB, the inherent resilience provided by its distributed architecture and Raft replication offers a strong foundation for high availability. However, even with this robust fault tolerance, a comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) plan is essential to safeguard against unforeseen, large-scale incidents.

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Sai Kiran Kshatriya

December 22, 2025

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Protobuf Changefeeds: Native, Typed CDC without the Glue Code

Change data capture (CDC) is the backbone of modern data platforms: Event-driven microservices, real-time analytics, incremental ELT, and operational alerts all depend on a reliable stream of change events. CockroachDB has long supported CDC with native changefeeds and familiar output formats like JSON and Avro. Now we’re adding Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) as a first‑class serialization option. If your organization standardizes on Protobuf for Kafka and downstream services, you’ll be able to plug CockroachDB in without glue code or format converters.

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Rohan Joshi

November 25, 2025

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Introducing Value Separation in CockroachDB 25.3 for Improved Performance

Data architects are on the lookout for ways to maximize resources, while also keeping costs predictable and manageable. The right database plays a central role in achieving both – delivering better performance, scalability, and resilience without breaking the budget.

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Dipti Joshi

October 23, 2025

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