Cockroach Labs

Sydney just wrapped a two‑day festival of cloud‑powered imagination and the buzz is still ringing from the harbour all the way to the data plane. ☁️ AWS Summit Sydney turned the International Convention Centre (ICC) Sydney into a live showcase of what’s next in cloud and AI. Attendees soaked up multiple sessions on topics like agentic AI, serverless computing, and cloud migration, plus hands‑on technical sessions, keynotes, and interactive learning designed for everyone from AWS beginners to seasoned builders. We’re especially thrilled by the overwhelming response to #CockroachDB ’s positioning on how a distributed SQL database can run resilient, cloud‑native workloads alongside AWS at scale. A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by the CockroachDB booth, booked meetings, and challenged us with the tough questions about uptime, latency, and data growth. Your curiosity is the real fuel for the next chapter. Missed the chance to connect in person? Let’s turn that “what if” into “what’s next” and explore how CockroachDB helps you #ScaleWhenOthersFail 👉 https://bit.ly/4jnkKi4 Cockroach Labs #ScaleWithCockroachDB #Database #AWSSummitSydney #AWS

I spoke to a prospect last week who said, I could never buy from a company called Cockroach Labs . And then went on to say, you can never go wrong with IBM . Well guess what, CockroachDB is now available in the IBM Cloud catalog & supported on IBM Power. The best of both worlds. You can learn more about here: https://lnkd.in/gDZ6fFrE

Cockroach Labs is heading down under and putting down roots in Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 Our customers kept telling us, “We need you closer,” so we listened. From Sydney Harbour to the entire ANZ region, we’re now building a proper local presence, starting with our first hire in Sydney: John Mugica . Meet John, our new Sydney-sider, who’s ready to roll up his sleeves, grab a flat white, and tee off 🏌️on building momentum with #CockroachDB , helping you scale without sweating the small stuff. He’s got the local swagger, regional know how, and the #CockroachDB ’s grit to go the full 18 holes ⛳️. Come say hi to us at the AWS Summit Sydney, we’re especially excited to meet you in person. Swing by the CockroachDB booth B‑8 and meet John. Coffee ☕️ by day, beer 🍺 by night John’s always up for a chat, a few stories, a proper discussion and explore how your org can #ScaleWithCockroachDB without skipping a timezone. Welcome to the family, John Mugica 👋 #CockroachLabs #ScaleWhenOthersFail #Database

Added another embedding model to the #CockroachDB ( Cockroach Labs ) vector embedding toolkit at https://lnkd.in/eE66gEvZ Now supporting Takara-DS1/ds1-fukuro from takara.ai https://lnkd.in/evT7jfuF The toolkit is model-agnostic—embedding models are simple wrappers, so new providers can be plugged in without changing the core pipeline. This makes it straightforward to experiment with different models directly on existing CockroachDB tables. Curious—what embedding models are you using today, especially for domain-specific use cases? #CockroachDB #VectorSearch #AI #MachineLearning #Embeddings

The best thing I did as the first SE at Cockroach Labs in EMEA wasn't close deals. It was make myself replaceable as fast as possible. Most technical leaders treat their direct involvement as the quality bar. If they're not in the room, standards slip. That's not leadership. That's a bottleneck with a title. When I joined, EMEA had no SE function, no brand, no playbook. I was in every deal for the first 90 days because I had no choice. The job was to make that true for as short a time as possible. Four years later: 50+ headcount, 3 managers, operating model adopted globally, win rate up 125%. None of that happens if I'm still running every POC in year two. The leaders who scale technical orgs aren't the ones who raise the floor. They're the ones who build the system that does.

Identity is becoming the new key, and #CockroachDB is turning the lock with Zero Trust style! 🔐✨ As companies move to cloud-first and multi-cloud worlds, old login habits like passwords and fixed trust are falling behind. CockroachDB is adding support for SAN fields in certificates, which helps work with SPIFFE and SPIRE for safer, more modern identity checks. That means fewer workarounds, clearer tracking, and a smarter path for regulated teams. Here’s why this matters: 📝 No more CN limits: Long identities no longer need awkward shortcuts. 🗝️ Cleaner access rules: Identity can be matched with flexible patterns. 🌟 Zero static secrets: No passwords sitting around waiting to be misused. 🚀 Fresh access, always: Short-lived certificates rotate on their own. This is a big step for teams that want strong security without slowing down daily work. It also helps support SOC 2 needs and works better across clouds and environments. Want to know how your organization can #ScaleWithCockroachDB and build a stronger Zero Trust path? Read more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gv4u9Xv8 Cockroach Labs #ScaleWhenOthersFail #Database

OTC at scale from $1M to $100M When I joined Cockroach Labs, contracts arrived however the salesperson created them. Sometimes it was just a Word doc saved as a PDF. There were no standardized quotes, no order forms, no rules. Just vibes and a prayer that AR and RevRec would sort themselves out downstream. CPQ fixed that first. There was a finite set of products and bundles to sell. Suddenly quotes followed a process, approvals put rails on it, and revenue recognition could be built out properly. From there we had a decent flow: orders pushing into Maxio for billing and dunning, mostly working, with some manual workarounds for custom billing schedules. Straight-line revenue recognition. Good enough for where we were, with the tools we had. There were bigger fires to fight. We told ourselves that a lot. Then came consumption-based revenue. Maxio wasn’t built for it at the time. RevRec moved to Excel. Which worked until it didn’t, which is the natural lifecycle of every Excel-based solution in a fast-growing startup. Here’s where it gets fun 🤡 We were pushing Invoice records into NetSuite but not Orders. Seemed fine at the time since revenue wasn’t happening in NetSuite anyway. Until we wanted to implement a real revenue recognition tool that needed order data in NetSuite. So we chose a cutover date and migrated everything. Which created duplicate invoice records for the partially-invoiced orders, since we needed the invoice history tied to each order. Which our AR automation tool couldn’t handle. It couldn’t exclude the dupes from customer statements, so the customer portal became unusable overnight. Even advanced insights like customer ratings and cash forecasting were worthless because the duplicate invoices were skewing the history. Every one of these problems traced back to the same root cause: we didn’t get the base data clean and complete from the very start. Each workaround bought us time and created the next problem. The data architecture decisions you make at $1M will still be following you at $100M, $500M, $1B 👻 Now there’s a new reason to care. Everyone is adding AI to their finance workflows right now. Agents and Cowork skills that apply cash, match invoices, forecast collections, close the books faster. I’m building some of this myself and it’s genuinely exciting. But agents are only as good as the data they’re working with. If your order records are incomplete, your invoice data is inconsistent, or your customers don’t correlate across systems, the agent will just automate the mess. Garbage in, garbage out. Faster than ever before 🚀 Clean data was always important. Now it’s the foundation everything else is built on. When you’re building from the ground up, take the time to get it right. #accountsreceivable #financeoperations #startupfinance #revenuerecognition #ASC606 #AI

The CXO Roundtable just proved that the best business conversations happen when smart minds sit at one table. ✨ The CXO Roundtable wrapped up as a focused, high-value evening built around one strong idea: Capital Markets 2030: Architecting for Volatility, Scale, and Trust. With #CockroachDB and CNBC TV18 bringing the event together, the room was full of leaders thinking ahead and speaking openly about what the future needs. The discussion stayed close to the real challenges: how to handle change with calm, how to grow without losing trust, and how to stay steady in a fast-moving market. It was the kind of roundtable where every voice mattered and every idea had a place at the table. A big thank you to everyone who joined, shared, and helped make the evening memorable. The table may be packed up, but the ideas are still spreading. 🔥 Cockroach Labs #ScaleWithCockroachDB #Database #CNBCTV18 #CXORoundtable #CapitalMarkets #Resilience

Mumbai just engineered BFSI's boldest tech evolution yet! 🔧✨ The BFSI Tech Summit & Awards 2026 wrapped as an electrifying fusion of innovation and impact, pulsing with CIOs, CTOs, tech leaders, and BFSI trailblazers. The atmosphere crackled as visionaries tackled digital transformation, fintech frontiers, cybersecurity shields, cloud strategies, AI decision engines, payments revolution, and regtech mastery through keynote thunder, panel fireworks, and the glittering BFSI Tech Awards honoring excellence. Every strategic exchange and award celebration accelerated India's financial future into hyperdrive. #CockroachDB ’s conversations sparked a resilience renaissance and our team was stunned by the deep-dive passion for unbreakable data powering BFSI dominance! Big thanks to everyone who charged through the CockroachDB booth, ignited strategy sessions, and fueled the transformation fire. Missed the tech torrent? Let's keep the evolution electric. Reach out to discover how CockroachDB powers #ScaleWhenOthersFail 👉 https://bit.ly/4jnkKi4 Cockroach Labs #ScaleWithCockroachDB #Database #BFSITechSummit #FintechIndia