May 25, 2018 has loomed over businesses for two years as the day the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect––and that day has finally arrived. If the number of "Updates to Our Privacy Policy" emails I've received in the last week are any indication, people are still hard at work trying to make GDPR compliance happen. However, unlike the cleanly cut deadline of filing your taxes, meeting GDPR's regulations isn't something most companies will complete today. According to Crowd Search Partners' GDPR report, as many as 60% of companies, as of today, fail to comply.

As we wrap up 2017, we would like to thank everyone who has contributed to and used CockroachDB and who has supported and encouraged all of us here at Cockroach Labs. This has been a great year for the product's - and company’s - evolution as we launched 1.0 then our 1.1, and are now well on our way to CockroachDB 2.0!

Calling all database and infrastructure experts: get ready to nerd out with the best CockroachDB devs in your city! A year after our Beta release and a shortly before CockroachDB 1.0 becomes available for download, we are excited to announce the newly minted CockroachDB User Groups. We are kicking off our user groups April 4th and 5th, with inaugural events in New York City and San Francisco respectively.