RoachFest London 2026
2026-06-25
London, United Kingdom
as the organisers put it
RoachFest returns to London this June to welcome enterprise architects, application developers, and distributed systems enthusiasts to hear from CockroachDB customers and experts on how a database can transform your infrastructure from a costly single point of failure into a strategic advantage.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| What does it take to build long-term state for AI agents? | Adam B. Struck, Jordan Legg, Rob Reid | 25m |
Panel claims a production memory layer must be LLM-agnostic and handle real-world needs: ingest agent traces, enforce memory pools and TTL with auth, detect… | ||
| How Form3’s real-time payment platform survives cloud outages | Kevin Holditch | 21m |
Claim: platform survives loss of an entire cloud provider with no customer impact. Architecture runs active/active/active across AWS GCP and Azure with a… | ||
| Beyond the Roadmap and Into the Future of CockroachDB | Igor Stanko | 27m |
Roadmap promises become concrete: a plan to Bring Your Own Cloud deployment plus disaggregated storage and compute, auto-scaling clusters and database… | ||
| Migrating Primer’s Live Payments Platform to CockroachDB with Zero Downtime | Vik Bhatti | 17m |
Primer migrates its live payments workload from single-writer Postgres on RDS to CockroachDB with dual-writer application logic, AWS DMS replication and a… | ||
| The New Database Estate | Spencer Kimball | 31m |
A new agentic database cloud promises a unified architecture with a continuous AI team per cluster that runs, tunes, migrates and protects fleets of databases… | ||
| RoachFest London 2026 | CockroachDB User Conference | 02m | |
Conference recap highlights a concrete pricing change: separate storage and compute billing with a claim that it better matches customer business models… | ||
| This or That with Takara AI | Matt Gardner, Jordan Legg | 15m |
Takara AI claims the fastest CPU embedding models, self‑host inference under 1 ms and over‑the‑wire ~80 ms versus ~600 ms to OpenAI, enabling billions of… | ||
| Straight from the Field | Anna Eriksson | 16m |
Field notes: Cockroach DB is positioned as a cattle-style, Kubernetes-friendly distributed SQL engine that handles consistency at the database layer, not the… | ||
| Access Granted with AuthZed | Matt Gardner | 16m |
AuthZed explains a deployed Zanzibar-style system (SpiceDB backed by CockroachDB) that replaces app-level if/else spaghetti, answers single permission queries… | ||
| Spill the tea | Spencer Kimball | 20m |
No-slides, no-filter session of hot takes and concrete anecdotes: code generation using Claude code restarts a hands-on hobby and produces surprisingly… | ||
| nothing matches | ||