Becca Weng is a Content Marketing Manager at Cockroach Labs, and is passionate about making technical conversations accessible to everyone. In addition, she is pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Previously, she worked as a content writer at Google, and at a seed-stage data science startup, Einblick, which was acquired by Databricks in February 2024.
Retail & Ecommerce
Database Modernization
Scale & Resilience
A Smart Investment: Why CockroachDB Saves Retailers Money
You can’t afford downtime, inconsistent data, or complex infrastructure — not during peak season, and not at scale. While CockroachDB is a premium product, it reduces total cost of ownership by eliminating manual operations, enabling global scale, and delivering the resilience required for today’s customer expectations.
Becca Weng
April 24, 2025
Database Modernization
Scale & Resilience
Top 7 Tips for Optimizing Your Distributed SQL Database
Here are 7 expert-backed tips from the 2nd edition of CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide (O’Reilly Media, 2025) to help you get the most out of your distributed SQL database. To get the full details, download your free copy of O’Reilly’s CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide, 2nd edition, today.
Becca Weng
April 23, 2025
Database Modernization
Payments
Banking & Fintech
Payment orchestration with Spreedly and CockroachDB
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
Database Modernization
Scale & Resilience
From customer to author: The guy with the CockroachDB tattoo
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
Events
Scale & Resilience
Future-proof your database infrastructure at RoachFest 2025
Cockroach Labs is excited to announce the return of RoachFest, our annual conference for customers and database experts. Since its inception in 2022, RoachFest has brought together architects, DBAs, developers, data leaders, and more to share, collaborate, and innovate on their use of the latest database technologies.
Becca Weng
March 24, 2025
Scale & Resilience
Guides
Database Modernization
Big Ideas for 2025: What is “data modernization” today?
Data modernization has been a critical aspect of technological evolution throughout recent history – it has simply taken on different forms based on the economic, business, and societal needs at the time. In a recent episode of Big Ideas in App Architecture, two expert Cockroach Labs sales engineers – David Joy and Jim Hatcher – discussed data modernization’s intriguing evolution, highlighting key shifts and trends that are unfolding.
Becca Weng
January 14, 2025
Scale & Resilience
Preparing for the “New Normal”: How to Minimize the Impact of IT Outages
High-profile outages and performance constraints underscore the acute need for systems capable of adapting to the modern world. Take the recent Crowdstrike outage, which affected various industries, including finance, healthcare, and notably aviation: Thousands of flights were cancelled, and many hospitals worldwide had to cancel non-emergency procedures as they were unable to access patient data.
Becca Weng
January 13, 2025
Generative AI
Scale & Resilience
Database Modernization
2024: Resilience, AI, Distributed SQL, and Momentum
As we head into the new year, it’s the perfect time to look back on what was a big year for Cockroach Labs. 2024 has been memorable for us, in so many ways. Our company grew to over 500 employees; we moved both our Bangalore and Austin offices to larger spaces to accommodate our growth; we took our annual customer conference, RoachFest, global for the first time. We also celebrated the 50th episode of our podcast, Big Ideas in App Architecture, which has featured tech leaders from Cameo, Estée Lauder, DoorDash, Confluent, and more.
Becca Weng
December 30, 2024
Google Cloud
Scale & Resilience
Announcing Pay-As-You-Go CockroachDB on Google Cloud Marketplace
We are excited to announce the launch of a new pay-as-you-go offering for CockroachDB Cloud on Google Cloud Marketplace. This new offering makes it easier than ever for teams to procure CockroachDB on Google Cloud while managing costs through their existing Google Cloud billing account.
Becca Weng
December 12, 2024