David Weiss
Senior Technical Content MarketerDavid Weiss is Senior Technical Content Marketer for Cockroach Labs. In addition to data, his deep content portfolio includes cloud, SaaS, cybersecurity, and crypto/blockchain. He is the co-author of “Music Supervision”, the leading college textbook on synch licensing. Off-hours, David loves drumming, cooking, and small animal rescue.
Scale & Resilience
“The State of Resilience 2025” Reveals the True Cost of Downtime
What is resilience, and what does it mean to your business? The answer is starkly clear in a new Cockroach Labs survey – one that’s a wake-up call for enterprises everywhere. We’ve just released the results of “The State of Resilience 2025: Confronting Outages, Downtime, and Organizational Readiness”, and its findings shed a surprising new light on the high financial stakes of maintaining operational resilience.
David Weiss
October 29, 2024
Driving AI, Data for Demanding Apps: Cockroach Labs In the News — October 2024
One of the biggest trends driving media conversations this month was the intersection of AI and database technology, specifically around how AI is changing the way businesses handle data.
David Weiss
October 17, 2024
Events
RoachFest24 New York | Rewind
RoachFest 2024 in NYC has wrapped, the first year of Cockroach Labs’ popular event going global. Following successful deployments in Menlo Park and London in June, our packed NYC gathering on the waterfront was the optimal outro for RoachFest24.
David Weiss
October 1, 2024
Events
Global RoachFest Reflections: MC Chris Casano’s NYC Preview
In just 2 weeks we’ll be capping off RoachFest24 in our hometown – New York, NY on September 26. There is so much to look forward to, starting with our incredible headliners including Estée Lauder, Microsoft, and Global Payments.
David Weiss
September 10, 2024
Engineering
Video Spotlight: “Chaos Testing – Behind CockroachDB’s Resilience”
Cockroach Labs’ Technical Evangelist Rob Reid just loves trying to break things, and our own cloud-native distributed SQL database is not immune from this impulse. He recently devoted screen time to pushing CockroachDB hard in tough conditions, just to watch it push back.
David Weiss
September 3, 2024
Business
Database Modernization
PwC UK and Cockroach Labs: Accelerating Modernization and Reducing Regulatory Risk for Financial Services
There’s a lot riding on the technology choices enterprises make. However, a winning strategy for mainframe modernization and reducing regulatory risk means more than just selecting the best tech: It calls for access to a comprehensive solution addressing business, regulatory, and technological challenges.
David Weiss
August 26, 2024
Events
Running with Route: The RoachFest '24 Video Debut
The Menlo Park and London debuts of Cockroach Labs’ RoachFest '24 couldn’t have gone better. We had a full house for both events – with a fun and highly informative time had by all.
David Weiss
July 31, 2024
Banking & Fintech
CockroachDB Achieves AWS Financial Services Competency Status
The architectural benefits of cloud scalability and business agility are too crucial for organizations to ignore as they race to gain an advantage. Cockroach Labs is committed to leading this transformation: We are pleased to announce that we have achieved the AWS Financial Services Competency status, demonstrating CockroachDB’s success in delivering secure, scalable, and reliable database services for financial institutions.
David Weiss
July 10, 2024
Events
RoachFest24 in Review: Recapping the Action at Menlo Park & London
What would happen when RoachFest 2024 finally went global -- was the world ready? Were WE ready?? As the curtains came up in Menlo Park, and two weeks later in London, Planet Earth was poised to find out.
David Weiss
July 9, 2024