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Identity Access Management (IAM)
|Scale & Resilience
In the early years of computing, “consistency” had a clear home: the database. If your transactions were atomic and your indexes balanced, you could sleep at night knowing your system was sound.

Amine El Kouhen, Ph.D.
December 4, 2025
Distributed Systems
Authorization & Access Control
SpiceDB / AuthZed
Global Consistency
CockroachDB Architecture
Security
Banking & Fintech
GDPR & Data Regulations
Banking on Trust: How RBI’s Cyber Rules and CockroachDB Keep You Safe
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has always been serious about keeping India’s banking system safe and resilient. And with the explosion of online payments, mobile banking, and real-time Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions, the pressure is higher than ever. One slip — a cyberattack, a major outage, or a fraud — and millions of customers feel the impact instantly.

Biplav Saraf
December 2, 2025
Database Modernization
Artificial Intelligence
AWS
Scale Smart, Resilient, and Global: CockroachDB + AWS at re:Invent 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
Database Modernization
SQL
Running Stateful at Scale: How Scalable SQL Databases Thrive on Kubernetes
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
Artificial Intelligence
Database Modernization
Events
From agents to architecture: How AI ushers in the next era of infrastructure
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
Database Modernization
Product
Protobuf Changefeeds: Native, Typed CDC without the Glue Code
Change data capture (CDC) is the backbone of modern data platforms: Event-driven microservices, real-time analytics, incremental ELT, and operational alerts all depend on a reliable stream of change events. CockroachDB has long supported CDC with native changefeeds and familiar output formats like JSON and Avro. Now we’re adding Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) as a first‑class serialization option. If your organization standardizes on Protobuf for Kafka and downstream services, you’ll be able to plug CockroachDB in without glue code or format converters.

Rohan Joshi
November 25, 2025
Database Modernization
Scale & Resilience
Aurora vs. CockroachDB: A Clearer Look at Distributed SQL for Enterprises
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
Events
Artificial Intelligence
Distributed SQL + Vectors: A Match Made in Heaven
In today’s AI-driven world, enterprises need more than just fast queries or scalable storage, they need a unified data foundation that can power both real-time transactional workloads and vector-based AI applications. Traditionally, these two worlds have lived apart: transactional databases handled the operational data, while vector stores powered AI search and semantic similarity. But that separation comes at a cost: data fragmentation, slow pipelines, and operational complexity. What if you could have both in one system?

David Joy
November 18, 2025
IBM
System
How CockroachDB Delivers True Cross-Platform Portability Across x86-64, ARM64 and IBM LinuxONE
Enterprises are operating across a fragmented infrastructure landscape that spans on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Their databases need to move just as freely.

Jim Harris
November 17, 2025
Outages Observer: When A Region or Cloud Fails, Resilience Must Be Automatic
AWS’s us-east-1 region stumbled last month, and the businesses buckled. Our customers didn’t. CockroachDB clusters continued serving global traffic without disruption – proving what “resilience by design” really means.

David Weiss
November 14, 2025
