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Every year at RoachFest, we hear directly from the teams running some of the most demanding data workloads in production. RoachFest 2025 was no different—except this year, a clear theme emerged across customer sessions: primary data and metadata are often mission-critical.

Becca Weng

February 18, 2026

83% of technology leaders believe their infrastructure will fail under AI pressure within two years. That number is not meant to provoke alarm. It’s simply a fact that reflects the forward-looking judgment of 1,125 global engineering and technology leaders who are already seeing stress where their systems were never designed to carry it.

Becca Weng

February 17, 2026

AI agents are no longer a thought experiment. They’re already writing code, calling APIs, retrying failed requests, and coordinating work at machine speed. And they’re about to put unprecedented pressure on the systems we use to store and move data.

Becca Weng

February 13, 2026

As AI-driven and agentic applications push data platforms into new territory, data architects are increasingly forced to choose between correctness, simplicity, and scale. Today, we’re removing that tradeoff — announcing support for 300-node clusters with 2.2M tpmC and 1.2PB of data in CockroachDB v25.4.4 and beyond. On CockroachDB Cloud, we’re announcing support for 64 vCPU per node. Testing to this scale is important to ensure that we’re testing ahead of customer deployments, and this milestone does just that. We believe these tests represent the largest node-scale testing completed by any distributed SQL vendor. And we’re just getting started.

David Bressler

February 12, 2026

In Part 1 of this article series on Global Reporting Platforms, we explored why traditional reporting architectures are increasingly unable to keep up with modern business demands.

Alex Seriy

February 11, 2026

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

Building mission-critical applications on CockroachDB demands robust observability. In complex, microservices-oriented architectures, it can be especially hard to correlate activity and pinpoint problems between different application services and the database layer.

Kevin Ngo

February 6, 2026

CockroachDB users don’t all show up in the same place or follow the same path. Some are just starting to evaluate distributed SQL. Others are deep in implementation details, or they may already be operating cloud-based clusters. A growing number are building day-to-day with an AI coding assistant open alongside their editor.

Kiki Carter

February 5, 2026

Two major cloud outages in two weeks made one thing painfully clear: your fraud defenses can’t depend on any single region or provider being perfect all the time. Microsoft’s Azure Front Door misconfiguration rippled through widely used services and status systems, just days after a separate AWS incident disrupted thousands of apps globally. These weren’t niche blips—they were broad shocks to the digital economy.

Harsh Shah

February 4, 2026