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The DBA in 2028: from cluster operator to estate architect
Database estates are expanding faster than DBA teams can scale. By 2028, DBAs will evolve from operating individual clusters to governing entire estates—encoding their expertise into policies that automate routine decisions while preserving human judgment for the moments that matter.
Ankit Pranav
October 13, 2026
Engineering
Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team
Cockroach Labs built MOLT Sinai, an AI coding “teaching hospital” designed to prioritize quality over raw speed. Its agents delivered IBM Db2 migration support in under two days—and went on to merge more than 1,200 production-grade pull requests in five months.
Adam Storm
October 9, 2026
Pragmatic Engineer Podcast Recap: Peter Mattis on B-Trees, Strong Consistency, and Writing Database Code with AI
Peter Mattis, co-founder and CTO of Cockroach Labs, recently sat down with Gergely Orosz on The Pragmatic Engineer podcast. The conversation covered the database fundamentals behind CockroachDB and how AI is changing the way our engineers build it. Here are the themes worth your time.
Cristian Gonzalez Guasch
October 8, 2026
Cockroach Aegis: Redefining Database Observability and Operations with Agentic Intelligence
Meet Cockroach Aegis, an always-on agentic system that learns your CockroachDB cluster, diagnoses issues, and recommends evidence-backed fixes.
Kevin Ngo
October 7, 2026
And the Winners Are: Recapping the CockroachDB × AWS Hackathon - Build with Agentic Memory
Rob Reid
October 2, 2026
9 Reasons to Choose Cockroach Continuum for Agentic Database Growth
Agent-driven development turns database growth into an estate-management problem. Cockroach Continuum helps teams create, manage, and consolidate workloads as one system, without a proportional increase in operational work or cost.
Tara Jana
September 30, 2026
CockroachDB BYOC Is Now Generally Available
Run CockroachDB in your cloud account while Cockroach Labs manages operations, security, backups, and uptime. Available on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Ethan Shmargad
September 24, 2026
Scale the Database Estate, Not the Team
Platform teams can scale a database estate without scaling cluster-by-cluster operations by separating workload isolation from dedicated infrastructure. Cockroach Continuum Virtual Clusters provide isolated environments on a shared Dedicated Host Cluster, enabling centralized operations and estate-level capacity planning.
Ankit Pranav
September 22, 2026
Cloud
Scale & Resilience
Cockroach Continuum: the Agentic Database Cloud
Utility-grade databases operated without seams from 1/1000th of a core to ten thousand.
Spencer Kimball
September 15, 2026
ai
Cloud
Distributed SQL
Cockroach Continuum: Elastic Infrastructure for Agentic Database Estates
Cockroach Continuum uses elasticity in the storage, KV, and SQL layers to make database estate consolidation practical while preserving CockroachDB’s reliability, scale, locality, and correctness.
Isaac Wong
September 15, 2026
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