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Across three continents, RoachFest 2025 keeps bringing us together. It’s where engineers, operators, data architects, and tech leaders get real about building for scale, agility, and performance in a world where data demands never stop growing.

David Weiss

August 26, 2025

India's digital scene is evolving rapidly, with an increased focus on individual privacy and data protection, as evidenced by global standards like Europe's GDPR. These standards have raised the bar for data protection globally.

Mike Geehan

August 21, 2025

AI has moved far beyond the experimental phase. Now it's powering customer experiences, streamlining operations, and driving entirely new business models.

David Weiss

August 19, 2025

Even better performance, smoother migrations, and heightened compliance are central to CockroachDB 25.3.

David Bressler

August 12, 2025

eCommerce is a broad domain, but at a basic level it encompasses any business that primarily buys or sells goods or services over the internet. This includes all sorts of companies from classic retailers and marketplaces, to food delivery and online travel. In this space, customer expectations are extremely high. They want a personalized experience, fast access/answers, and have zero tolerance for downtime. Not only do businesses have to accommodate a demanding customer, but they also have to figure out how to serve a geographically dispersed user base.

Cassie McAllister

July 29, 2025

Real-world database resilience is not about surviving under ideal conditions – it's about thriving when adversity strikes.

Dipti Joshi

July 22, 2025

PostgreSQL has almost 40 years of active development under its belt making it one of the most powerful and reliable relational database management systems (RDBMS). Even today it’s the fourth most popular database in the world, backed by a global community of dedicated supporters. It’s a good fit for business critical workloads because PostgreSQL delivers a highly stable foundation and is ACID compliant. This is also why it’s often used in financial services and for use cases that handle money.

Cassie McAllister

July 21, 2025

Query detective? Training junky? Lead developer? All that and much more describes Greg Turnquist, who hosts the Cockroach Labs video and podcast series SELECT STAR.

David Weiss

July 17, 2025

In exploring ways to improve transaction throughput performance for CockroachDB we have introduced buffered writes, in preview. Before buffered writes, each step that included a read or write would read or write from the leaseholder. Since the leaseholder is not always local, this communication could incur network round trips and serial execution of each statement.

David Bressler

July 15, 2025