The Cockroach Labs Blog

Database modernization is a priority for many enterprises in 2026, as pressure builds for applications to grow more distributed, failure-tolerant, and globally accessible. Increasing cloud deployments may seem like a quick cure...

David Weiss

February 9, 2026

Building mission-critical applications on CockroachDB demands robust observability. In complex, microservices-oriented architectures, it can be especially hard to correlate activity and pinpoint problems between different application services and the database layer.

Kevin Ngo

February 6, 2026

CockroachDB users don’t all show up in the same place or follow the same path. Some are just starting to evaluate distributed SQL. Others are deep in implementation details, or they may already be operating cloud-based clusters. A growing number are building day-to-day with an AI coding assistant open alongside their editor.

Kiki Carter

February 5, 2026

Two major cloud outages in two weeks made one thing painfully clear: your fraud defenses can’t depend on any single region or provider being perfect all the time. Microsoft’s Azure Front Door misconfiguration rippled through widely used services and status systems, just days after a separate AWS incident disrupted thousands of apps globally. These weren’t niche blips—they were broad shocks to the digital economy.

Harsh Shah

February 4, 2026

Enterprise security is a key factor in reducing cost-of-ownership and getting new solutions into production efficiently. With CockroachDB v26.1, available as of February 3rd in CockroachDB Cloud and February 18th for CockroachDB self-hosted, we are introducing security improvements that help organizations integrate CockroachDB more seamlessly with their existing security infrastructure.

David Bressler

February 3, 2026

From retail investing and global card payments to large-scale lending, fintech platforms are being pushed to their limits. User expectations are rising, regulations are tightening, and transaction volumes are growing faster and more unpredictably than ever before. Across these domains, one theme is emerging clearly: traditional databases struggle to keep up with modern financial workloads at scale.

Becca Weng

February 2, 2026

Before AI workloads entered production en masse, infrastructural resilience was already key to mission-critical applications. But in 2026, resilience alone won’t be enough. The real challenge, one that’s already reshaping engineering priorities and strategic business initiatives is resilience at scale.

Becca Weng

January 29, 2026

Data doesn’t just serve the business anymore. Data is the business. Every transaction, every decision, every customer experience depends on having timely, trustworthy insight – not weekly, not daily, but continuously.

Alex Seriy

January 28, 2026

"I'll know it when I see it" is the classic car buyer's line, but it's also the one thing old-school search bars totally fail to deliver. Traditional keyword search fails when a customer wants a car that "looks like this photo from Fast and Furious." This is where vector search comes in, transforming unstructured data into mathematical vectors to find semantically similar items.

Alejandro Infanzon

January 27, 2026