RoachFest 2025 Las Vegas
2025-10-14
Las Vegas, United States
[RoachFest 2023, RoachFest 2024: Menlo Park, RoachFest 2025 Las Vegas]
as the organisers put it
Cockroach Labs closed out RoachFest 2025 in Las Vegas with valuable insights from Spencer Kimball, Kelsey Hightower, and enterprise leaders from FanDuel, Squarespace, and Cisco AI on scaling resilient systems, AI data workloads, and the future of distributed SQL.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Why Squarespace adopted CockroachDB for better global performance at scale | Gav McQuillin | 23m |
Squarespace migrates ~50 Postgres clusters with about 100 individual cutovers using Debezium CDC into CockroachDB and reports 80% of clusters require minimal… | ||
| 20+ years of building systems that outlast the chaos | Kelsey Hightower | 22m |
Argues that teams must scale down before you scale up and learn kernel, memory, and app fundamentals instead of buying complexity; replaces fragile deploy… | ||
| Building CockroachDB for performance at scale | Biplav Saraf, Alicia L. | 14m |
CockroachDB claims a purpose-built migration suite that converts schemas, streams data, and verifies parity with tools named convert, molt fetch, and verify… | ||
| Scaling to support America’s #1 sportsbook | Jordan Leech, Alex Chadwick | 15m |
FanDuel replaces a Percona/Galera MySQL stack with CockroachDB to horizontally scale its single-wallet financial ledger, migrating via AWS DMS and a fallback… | ||
| Future-proofing operational data at scale | Spencer Kimball | 31m |
CockroachDB demonstrates concrete resilience and speed: a public performance under adversity benchmark injects disk stalls, asymmetric network partitions and… | ||
| Scaling to support America’s #1 sportsbook | Jordan Leech, Alex Chadwick | 15m |
FanDuel replaces a Percona Galera MySQL cluster with CockroachDB across EC2 outposts and local zones, using DMS for initial migration and Cockroach’s CDC, TTL… | ||
| Journey from PostgreSQL to CockroachDB: Scaling Cisco AI Defense | Arjun Sambamoorthy | 15m |
Cisco migrates from PostgreSQL to CockroachDB to solve transaction ID/vacuum storms, sharding pain and constant failovers caused by running Postgres in… | ||
| RoachFest 2025 Las Vegas | CockroachDB User Conference | 02m | |
Recap of RoachFest 2025 Las Vegas that compiles conference highlights from London and Bengaluru before the Grand Finale in Las Vegas, centers on real customer… | ||
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