Vishal Jaishankar
Member of Technical StaffVishal Jaishankar is part of the SRE team at Cockroach Labs and is passionate about solving problems at scale. He is a BITS Pilani graduate and previously worked as a dev-ops engineer at Microsoft
Identity Access Management (IAM)
RBAC to the Future: Role-Based Access in GCP, AWS, and Azure
In Back to the Future, messing with the wrong wires could change the timeline. In cloud infrastructure, messing with the wrong permissions can do just as much damage. That’s why Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is a cornerstone of secure, scalable platform design.
Vishal Jaishankar
June 27, 2025
Improving Network Observability in CockroachDB Cloud with Network Inspector
In distributed systems, network reliability is often taken for granted until something goes wrong. While we frequently discuss the theoretical unreliability of networks, our experience shows that the overwhelming majority of network issues stem from misconfigurations – rather than actual infrastructure failures. It is also often hard to prove that a network outage stemmed from a cloud provider if you don’t have real-time observability into the network.
Vishal Jaishankar
December 13, 2024