Becca Weng is a Content Marketing Manager at Cockroach Labs, and is passionate about making technical conversations accessible to everyone. In addition, she is pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Previously, she worked as a content writer at Google, and at a seed-stage data science startup, Einblick, which was acquired by Databricks in February 2024.
Google Cloud
Scale & Resilience
Announcing Pay-As-You-Go CockroachDB on Google Cloud Marketplace
We are excited to announce the launch of a new pay-as-you-go offering for CockroachDB Cloud on Google Cloud Marketplace. This new offering makes it easier than ever for teams to procure CockroachDB on Google Cloud while managing costs through their existing Google Cloud billing account.
Becca Weng
December 12, 2024
Scale & Resilience
RoachFest Recap: City Storage Systems’ Multi-Regional Microservices
The final installment of RoachFest 2024 was in New York City – home not only to the Cockroach Labs headquarters, but also to countless restaurants, small food businesses, and delicious eats. So it was only fitting that we welcomed City Storage Systems (CSS) to RoachFest New York to highlight how they are disrupting the restaurant industry.
Becca Weng
December 5, 2024
AWS
Cockroach Labs Named AWS Industry Partner of the Year – Travel and Hospitality, Finalist
Cockroach Labs is thrilled to announce that we have been named a finalist for the AWS Industry Partner of the Year - Travel and Hospitality - NAMER. This recognition highlights our commitment to providing innovative solutions and services that drive modernization and efficiency.
Becca Weng
December 3, 2024
Scale & Resilience
RoachFest Recap: Why Starburst Deploys CockroachDB in Six Regions
One of the reasons we love hosting RoachFest, our global event series for data professionals, is that it brings together a community focused on operational resilience and performance at scale.
Becca Weng
December 2, 2024
AWS
Scale & Resilience
AWS re:Invent 2024 – Explore Resilience with Cockroach Labs
Our team will be on-site at Booth #444 from December 2 to December 5 to share with you all that we’ve been working on this year, and how you can leverage Cockroach Labs with AWS to build a modern data infrastructure that is resilient to cloud and data infrastructure failures. Read on to learn more about our work with AWS, what to expect from Cockroach Labs at AWS re:Invent, and what sessions we are most excited to attend.
Becca Weng
November 18, 2024
Scale & Resilience
Cloud Journeys: Multi-Cloud and Beyond with Distributed SQL
Today, businesses are increasingly investing in multi-cloud strategies as a part of data modernization to enhance resilience, scalability, and operational efficiency. In the final installment of our series on Cloud Journeys with Distributed SQL, this blog post explores the benefits of working with CockroachDB to achieve multi-cloud.
Becca Weng
November 12, 2024
Scale & Resilience
Cloud Journeys: Getting to Multi-Region with Distributed SQL
While the first phase of cloud adoption involves deploying applications across region specific data centers or availability zones, the second phase of cloud adoption involves deploying data infrastructure across multiple regions to support global applications that require low-latency connectivity and redundancy across large geographical areas.
Becca Weng
October 31, 2024
Scale & Resilience
Engineering
A Conversation with Peter Mattis: Inherent Resilience for Tomorrow’s Outage
In our recent webinar, Peter Mattis, CTO and CPO at Cockroach Labs, and Rob Reid, Technical Evangelist at Cockroach Labs, shared expertise on the critical aspects of building resilient systems and the profound impact of downtime on modern businesses. Throughout the conversation, they shared lessons from their careers, insights from working with customers, and fielded questions from the audience.
Becca Weng
October 22, 2024
Scale & Resilience
Cloud Journeys: Getting to Hybrid with Distributed SQL
To showcase how the cloud has worked for companies across the globe and across industries, we’re kicking off a new blog series: Cloud Journeys with Distributed SQL. In this first post we will share some stories of how enterprises have moved from on-premise legacy database solutions to hybrid or single region cloud deployments by leveraging our distributed SQL database, CockroachDB.
Becca Weng
October 15, 2024
AI/ML
Scale & Resilience
Celebrating 12 Cameos from 50 Big Ideas in App Architecture
Each week, listeners can tune into Big Ideas in App Architecture, our podcast for architects and engineers who are building modern, data-intensive applications and systems. To honor the 50th episode release, and all the guests who have shared their insights and experiences with us along the way, we’re looking back at 12 of our most popular episodes spanning topics like navigating industry changes, building efficient engineering organizations, tackling the new world of AI, and building reliable, distributed systems.
Becca Weng
October 4, 2024