David Weiss
Senior Technical Content MarketerDavid Weiss is Senior Technical Content Marketer for Cockroach Labs. In addition to data, his deep content portfolio includes cloud, SaaS, cybersecurity, and crypto/blockchain. He is the co-author of “Music Supervision”, the leading college textbook on synch licensing. Off-hours, David loves drumming, cooking, and small animal rescue.
Events
Cockroach Connect Supper Club: AI Is Not a Feature. It’s a Systems Problem.
Last week in San Francisco, Cockroach Labs hosted a private dinner: "Cockroach Connect: The Enterprise Reckoning."
David Weiss
April 22, 2026
Company
Building Distributed Systems for the Real World: How Becca Taft Engineers for Scale
When Becca Taft first sat in on one of Michael Stonebraker's research group meetings at MIT, she wasn't planning to work on databases.
David Weiss
April 16, 2026
Banking & Fintech
Why Does Fintech Break at Scale? Build for Resilience
The fintech companies and quant firms that define the next decade aren't just building better products. They're succeeding with more resilient fintech infrastructure.
David Weiss
April 2, 2026
Generative AI
Scaling Aerospace Systems Without a Central Control Plane
Aerospace has a scaling problem, but it's not about data volume alone.
David Weiss
March 17, 2026
Company
RKO 2026: Unstoppable in Atlanta
Before RKO 2026 officially began, its theme – Unstoppable — was already on display.
David Weiss
March 6, 2026
Database Modernization
What Database Modernization Means in the Cloud Era
Database modernization is a priority for many enterprises in 2026, as pressure builds for applications to grow more distributed, failure-tolerant, and globally accessible. Increasing cloud deployments may seem like a quick cure...
David Weiss
February 9, 2026
The Top Alternatives to Oracle and Amazon Aurora for Cloud-Scale Workloads
Oracle and Amazon Aurora continue to power many mission-critical applications. As cloud-scale workloads evolve, however, the definition of "enterprise-ready" has fundamentally shifted.
David Weiss
January 16, 2026
ai
SQL
Why Modern AI Workloads Need Distributed Database Architecture
AI workloads have become business-critical applications. Agentic systems, real-time inference, recommendation engines, fraud detection, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) are live and impacting the customer experience.
David Weiss
December 30, 2025
2025
Scale & Resilience
Business
Outages Observer: Learning from 2025's Top Outages to Build Unbreakable Systems in 2026
If 2024 was the year outage anxiety crept into boardrooms, 2025 was the year fragility became impossible to ignore.
David Weiss
December 17, 2025