Cockroach Labs

I had a really great chat with Gergely Orosz on The Pragmatic Engineer about GIMP, Gmail, Colossus, erasure coding, B-trees, Swiss Tables, consensus replication, data storage vs. databases, and, of course, AI. We got into why automatic sharding matters, how strong consistency can simplify application development, and how coding agents have changed the pace and shape of my own work. As usual, the interesting parts are in the tradeoffs. We put together a recap on the blog: https://lnkd.in/gEj5JEiY Or tune into the full episode: https://lnkd.in/gCjKwQss

Your AI agents just showed up to the party... and they brought thousands of friends. Every agentic workload wants its own database. Multiply that across your whole fleet of agents, and suddenly your infra team is drowning. Enter Cockroach Continuum: built to create, isolate, and run many databases without your infrastructure (or your DBAs) breaking a sweat. Here's how: -> Disaggregated storage scales compute and storage independently. -> Virtual Clusters consolidate isolated databases on shared private hosts. -> Aegis reduces estate-management overhead. We break down Cockroach Continuum's full architecture here: https://lnkd.in/evMdkt_a

Hi %FIRSTNAME%, AI isn’t just another workload. It’s always-on, machine-driven traffic that finds the weak points in data architecture fast. In The State of AI Infrastructure 2026, we asked 1,125 senior cloud, engineering, and infrastructure leaders how their systems are holding up. A few of the findings: • 83% expect their data infrastructure to hit its limit within two years without major upgrades • 30% name the database as the first point of failure in an AI-overload scenario • 57% say an hour of AI-related downtime costs over $100K Grab the full report below to see where teams are investing to stay ahead.

Today we're introducing Cockroach Continuum, built for an era when agentic applications are growing database estates faster than any team can manage by hand. Bring a workload, and Cockroach Continuum folds it into the shared estate — pooling capacity across thousands of isolated databases instead of provisioning each one for its own peak. Cockroach Plenum, our usage-based storage layer, means you pay for the storage workloads actually use rather than what gets provisioned. Cockroach Aegis, a system of agents, watches the estate continuously, observing, recommending, and, under your governance, acting with growing autonomy over time. The foundation is CockroachDB, the same engine trusted in production for a decade. Cockroach Continuum is what it evolves into next. 🪳 Alongside Cockroach Continuum, we're unveiling a new look. A visual identity built on the same principles as the product: resilience, adaptability, and technology designed to stay up for anything. https://lnkd.in/eAWijr2q

AI workloads are growing while agents create demand at machine speed. Get the data on what that means for the infrastructure underneath.

AI is multiplying demand while infrastructure struggles to keep up. See why scale, cost, and resilience are colliding.