Cockroach Labs at tech events
12 write-ups · 2 events · 2026
Every event write-up on this site where Cockroach Labs spoke, hosted, sponsored or was interviewed, newest first. Each post covers what was presented, in my own words, with photos of the slides.
2026
17 Sept 2026 · AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
AGNTCon Day 2: Stateless MCP, Agent Identity, Multi-AgentDay 2 at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe — stateless MCP in production, agent identity, and multi-agent orchestration.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Inside Cockroach Labs' AI Playbook: The Database ReckoningFrom Cockroach Labs' own floor at RoachFest London 2026: 1,000 AI-built internal apps, an AI support engine, and why agents have no natural ceiling.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Will AI Make Us the Humans From WALL-E?A candid RoachFest London 2026 floor conversation on automation creep, agent autonomy, and Cockroach Labs' Felipe on the honest fear behind the hype.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Form3: How a Payments Platform Survives Cloud OutagesKevin Holditch of Form3 on why regulators forced a V1 to V2 rebuild across three clouds, and how CockroachDB keeps quorum writes safe across all of them.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Surviving a Real GCP Outage: A Multi-Cloud CockroachDB Story from RoachFest London 2026A RoachFest London account of a real GCP outage with zero platform impact thanks to a multi-cloud CockroachDB architecture.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Human in the Loop: AI and Database MigrationsA RoachFest London 2026 floor chat on why AI-assisted database migrations still need a human to decide the ambiguous schema calls.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
When Kubernetes Pod Disruption Budgets Aren't Enough for Multi-Cloud CockroachDBWhy cluster-scoped Kubernetes Pod Disruption Budgets can silently break quorum for multi-cloud CockroachDB, and how a custom cross-cluster PDB fixes it.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
RoachFest London 2026: Distributed SQL Meets AI ResilienceRecap and full video playlist from RoachFest London 2026: CockroachDB's AI agent vision, Form3 multi-cloud payments, and Primer's migration.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
CockroachDB C-SPANN vs pgvector: RoachFest WorkshopWhat the RoachFest London 2026 vector search and RAG workshop showed: C-SPANN vs HNSW and IVFFlat, orphaned vectors, and multi-tenant retrieval in SQL.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Spencer Kimball: From 'We're Not Google' to CockroachDB's Agentic FutureSpencer Kimball on CockroachDB's agentic future, the old 'we're not Google' objection, and distributed SQL as a mainstream need.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Major Tim Peake at RoachFest London: What Space Missions Teach EngineersMajor Tim Peake's RoachFest London keynote on launch day nerves, spacewalk training, psychological safety, and a decision framework for incident response.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Vik Bhatti (Primer): Move Before You Hit the Write CeilingVik Bhatti of Primer on zero-downtime CockroachDB migration, rejecting self-managed sharding, and a post-cutover write bug.