Isaac Wong
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Isaac Wong

EVP, Research & Development

Isaac Wong is EVP of Research & Development at Cockroach Labs, where he leads the engineering organization behind CockroachDB to shape the company's long-term technical vision. He oversees the teams driving the database's core architecture, reliability, and continued innovation.

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CockroachDB Orbital Computing and Distributed Databases BLOG

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The Database at 550 Kilometers: What Orbital Computing Means for Distributed Databases

In Ashburn, Virginia, a row of servers draws 40 megawatts from the grid and exhales it as heat.

Isaac Wong

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