This year the tech industry faced big changes: DORA regulations went into effect, the increasing adoption of AI and AI agents, and major outages. As our State of Resilience Report found earlier this year, organizations experience on average 86 outages each year. Within just one month, we saw critical services falter as AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare grappled with downtime. In 2025, the everyday consumer felt firsthand the impact of those outages: sites like X and ChatGPT malfunctioned, airlines suffered, and customer trust eroded.

Becca Weng

December 15, 2025

For Cockroach Labs and AWS, it’s been a year since we announced our Strategic Collaboration Agreement, and this is a moment to highlight how our partnership has grown. Today, we’re powering a new class of applications, from real-time genAI use-cases to scalable fintech platforms to globally resilient gaming experiences, ready to tackle the ever-changing landscape of tech advances.

Becca Weng

December 1, 2025

Modern applications demand agility, elasticity, and resilience, qualities that Kubernetes has made standard for stateless workloads. But what about databases, the inherently stateful core of every application stack? In our recent webinar, “Running Stateful at Scale: Scalable SQL Databases on Kubernetes,” Michael Wang, Director of Product Management, and Mark Zlamal, Enterprise Architect at Cockroach Labs, explored how CockroachDB bridges the gap between the reliability of traditional SQL databases and the scalability of cloud-native infrastructure.

Becca Weng

November 27, 2025

As part of our participation in Microsoft Ignite, Cockroach Labs hosted our latest Cockroach Connect, The Hidden Infrastructure Challenges Behind AI in San Francisco. In a day packed with activity, our CEO and co-founder Spencer Kimball moderated a powerhouse panel of investors: Peter Fenton (Benchmark), Satish Dharmaraj (Redpoint Ventures), and Lucas Swisher (Coatue). The conversation dove into the tectonic shifts underway in technology as AI redefines how systems and software are built, and how businesses operate.

Becca Weng

November 26, 2025

As modern applications expand across regions and clouds, the database layer often becomes the biggest constraint on growth. Global user bases, 24/7 availability expectations, and ever-evolving regulations have made the choice of database architecture more critical than ever. To help you make a better choice we’ve released a new whitepaper, CockroachDB vs. Amazon Aurora & DSQL: A Comprehensive Enterprise Distributed SQL Database Analysis. It takes a clear, technical look at how Amazon Aurora and Amazon DSQL database offerings stack up against CockroachDB when it comes to scale, resilience, and operational simplicity.

Becca Weng

November 19, 2025

In our recent webinar, “From Oracle to CockroachDB: Lessons from Real Migrations”, technical experts Rohan Joshi and Alistair Parry walked through how real-world organizations across industries migrated mission-critical workloads from Oracle to CockroachDB. Through this talk, live demo, and engaging Q&A, the audience learned which Oracle workloads are a great fit for CockroachDB, how to tackle schema conversion and PL/SQL refactoring, and how our MOLT (Migrate Off Legacy Technology) toolset accelerates the process.

Becca Weng

November 13, 2025

Across three continents and hundreds of attendees, our biggest RoachFest yet united a global community of architects, engineers, and innovators who share one goal: building systems that scale without fail.

Becca Weng

November 11, 2025

Following an electrifying first event in London, RoachFest heads to two more global innovation hubs: Bengaluru and Las Vegas. Each event offers a unique lens on what it means to build and run distributed applications in the real world — where scale is unpredictable, uptime is non-negotiable, and performance is expected under pressure.

Becca Weng

June 25, 2025

With the massive GCP and AWS outage the same day as RoachFest25 London, resilience is truly more topical than ever. So if you missed the excitement of our annual database conference, or just want to relive the conference, we’re thrilled to announce that on August 5, we’re bringing the best of RoachFest25 London directly to you — wherever you are. Join us for a curated virtual replay featuring highlights from the top sessions, product insights, and customer stories that defined this year’s database event of the summer.

Becca Weng

June 17, 2025