The Cockroach Labs Blog

FinTech teams are operating under more pressure than ever. As digital financial services become the default for consumers and enterprises alike, the margin for error has all but disappeared. Users expect every interaction to be instantaneous, accurate, and always available, with very little patience for anything less.

David Weiss

December 12, 2025

The rate of ransomware attacks is increasing. Year over year, the number of publicly mentioned victims of these attacks have reached historic highs, including one report mentioning a 126% year-over-year increase. High-profile organizations across industries have fallen victim to such attacks, leading to substantial operational disruptions. Few, if any sectors are safe from ransomware attacks

Mike Geehan

December 11, 2025

When Isaac Wong talks about building systems, he puts people before servers or code. A mathematician turned engineering leader, Wong is constantly connecting abstract theory with real-world resilience. Today, as Executive Vice President of R&D at Cockroach Labs, he leads teams shaping one of the world’s most advanced distributed databases.

David Weiss

December 10, 2025

Every major cloud hyperscaler is having global impact outages. The 2024 Microsoft incident happened due to a bug in Crowdstrike. Google Cloud failed this summer because of a small configuration issue. AWS's most popular region US-East-1 was impacted in October 2025 due to a small change in one of their services. In each case, thousands of organizations worldwide saw their applications crash.

Ankur Raina

December 9, 2025

When evaluating distributed databases like CockroachDB, customers often ask for what seems reasonable: fast transactions, regional survivability, and strong consistency. It sounds simple — low latency, resilience, and consistency in one database — but physics says otherwise. Here’s why you can’t have all three.

Alicia Lu

December 8, 2025

In the early years of computing, “consistency” had a clear home: the database. If your transactions were atomic and your indexes balanced, you could sleep at night knowing your system was sound.

Amine El Kouhen, Ph.D.

December 4, 2025

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has always been serious about keeping India’s banking system safe and resilient. And with the explosion of online payments, mobile banking, and real-time Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions, the pressure is higher than ever. One slip — a cyberattack, a major outage, or a fraud — and millions of customers feel the impact instantly.

Biplav Saraf

December 2, 2025

For Cockroach Labs and AWS, it’s been a year since we announced our Strategic Collaboration Agreement, and this is a moment to highlight how our partnership has grown. Today, we’re powering a new class of applications, from real-time genAI use-cases to scalable fintech platforms to globally resilient gaming experiences, ready to tackle the ever-changing landscape of tech advances.

Becca Weng

December 1, 2025

Modern applications demand agility, elasticity, and resilience, qualities that Kubernetes has made standard for stateless workloads. But what about databases, the inherently stateful core of every application stack? In our recent webinar, “Running Stateful at Scale: Scalable SQL Databases on Kubernetes,” Michael Wang, Director of Product Management, and Mark Zlamal, Enterprise Architect at Cockroach Labs, explored how CockroachDB bridges the gap between the reliability of traditional SQL databases and the scalability of cloud-native infrastructure.

Becca Weng

November 27, 2025