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Every day we get a plethora of reactions to the name CockroachDB. In this blog you'll learn about the meaning and the origin of the name and you can watch customers react to it.

Built In today announced that Cockroach Labs won in six categories on its 2023 Best Places To Work Awards, which include all of the lists we were eligible and nominated for.

Probably the only computer scientist ever to have a warship named after them, the irreverent, sharp-tongued, and brilliant Grace Hopper pioneered the idea of automatic programming, developed the first compiler, and blazed a trail for women in tech.

Crain's has ranked Cockroach Labs #1 in the large companies category of its 2022 Best Places to Work in New York City list. This is the third year in a row Cockroach Labs has received this ranking!

This blog post describes the career journey of Engineering Manager Rebecca Taft - from MIT to Cockroach Labs.

A toast to Edgar F. (Ted) Codd, godfather of the relational database. Ted Codd did for the database what Xerox PARC did for personal computers: made them accessible to everyday humans.

If you are a code newbie, you may be daunted by experienced developers' livestreams. Fear not! Here are four of our favorite beginner-friendly streamers to learn programming.

Cockroach Labs listed on Inc.'s Best Places to Work List for the second year in a row.

Aika Zikibayeva shares how she grew to become a Marketing Manager and how her team makes an outsized impact at Cockroach Labs.

Devonaire Ortiz, Recruiting Programs Manager at Cockroach Labs, details how we use interview rubrics to make hiring more equitable and build better teams in the process.

Waverly Heurtelou, Technical Campus Recruiter, describes how Cockroach Labs is building and growing a recruiting program for the next generation of talent.

No two workplace cultures look the same. At Cockroach Labs, our values drive a culture that makes room for everybody — what happens in the process makes room for joy, too.

Raydijah Walters, People Systems Coordinator, shares the story of her transition from Recruiting to People Systems, leadership of Black@CRL, and building solutions that last.

Roachers on the Cockroach Labs East Sales team share what drove them to join Cockroach Labs, what they value about our culture, and what keeps them closing.

Chelsea Lee, People Development Manager at Cockroach Labs, highlights the importance of developing company values that can change with your team and drive your company culture forward.

Vice President of Sales at Cockroach Labs, Vincent Giacomazza, shares the importance of our "One Team" mindset, teamwork, and what makes a successful salesperson.

Jen Murphy, Head of Channel Sales and Chair of our Women of CRL CREWS, shares her career journey and advice for growing a sales career.

Richard Cai, Member of the Technical Staff, describes how Learning and Development at Cockroach Labs enables his love for continuous learning.

David Delaney, a senior manager on the recruiting team, reflects on how our inclusive parental leave program and the support that follows has benefited him and many other parents at Cockroach Labs.

Our Chief People Officer shares how our work week has evolved with the company and the ways we establish balance at Cockroch Labs.

Our first-ever Rotational Product Manager, Ivory Ibuaka, tells the story of how she learned the Product Management function and made an impact in her first year at Cockroach Labs.

After building our presence in Canada over the course of several years, we're thrilled to announce our first dedicated office in Toronto, right near Union Station! And we are HIRING!

AllSaints needed to move from their MySQL database setup to something that offered high availability and scalability. They found CockroachDB.

We are thrilled that EMC and VMWare executive Lorenzo Montesi has joined Cockroach Labs as our Chief Financial Officer. Lorenzo could not have joined our team at a better time, as we continue our rapid growth in the cloud data market.

RoacherPride is a conglomerate of both members of the LGBTQIA+ community and allies who come together to socialize, discuss issues that affect our community and adjacent communities, and work to educate the larger Cockroach Labs' community about LGBTQIA+ history and allyship.

Taking parental leave to welcome a child shouldn't be stressful. Here are some programs we've implemented for Roachers to make that transition a bit easier.

It is an absolute honor that, after the year we've all had, Cockroach Labs has been named to Inc. Magazine’s annual list of the Best Workplaces for 2021.

When you interview at Cockroach Labs, you get ample interview prep. We believe in fair and equitable interviewing, so we opened our interview process to help candidates succeed.

How Amruta Ranade, Technical Writer turned Developer Advocate, built the skills needed to reinvent her career and used the Cockroach Labs internal mobility program to make the transition.

How does Cockroach Labs view corporate charitable giving? Like a lot of things here, it's a team effort, and one that reflects our employees' values.

What is Kubernetes, anyway? In this article, we'll explain what Kubernetes is and how it works using the film Titanic. I'll never let go... of Helm!

Learn how Infinite Colors, our employee resource group for neuro-diverse people, fulfills its mission to share resources about neuro-diversity in the workplace.

For many people, the past year has been straining. Neuro-diverse individuals have been particularly strained, having to balance their differences with all the changes happening around them. This post is collection of voices from Infinite Colors, Cockroach Labs' affinity group for neuro-diverse employees.

Our Technical Campus Recruiter shares what makes internships at Cockroach Labs unique.

CREWS (Cockroach Employees Who Support) are our employee support groups, and one small part of how we create an inclusive environment at Cockroach Labs.

Cockroach Labs is hiring people to work on CockroachDB from Sydney, Australia! If you're curious about me -- the lone Aussie -- my journey, and why I'm at Cockroach, read on.

POC@CRL is an employee-driven community focused on promoting professional and personal development and belonging for all people at Cockroach Labs.

Connect and Contribute Days are a company-dedicated time for staff at Cockroach Labs to learn, seek understanding, volunteer, and make positive change.

We hosted several interns over the year across various engineering teams, all working on projects deserving of full-length blog posts. Today, however, we'll highlight two projects from our most recent batch and give a briefer treatment for the remaining.

With our team working from home these past months, we’ve had to think creatively on how to foster learning opportunities on our Engineering team, specifically: when you first join the company and day-to-day learning from each other.

We are proud to announce a new round of funding at a milestone valuation, which recognizes our rapid growth, happy customers, and emerging role as a leading cloud-native SQL database.

I’m a database nerd. Or, to be more precise, a DBMS nerd. But back in university, I avoided the Databases course at all costs.

We want to support our people’s development, empowering them to switch roles. We set up an internal mobility program to make it possible.

Weathering a pandemic is no easy feat. Maintaining productivity is even harder. We work hard to take care of our people, no matter where they work-from.

Diversity in tech is dismal and a lot of it comes down unconscious biases. We're fighting unconscious bias Cockroach Labs, starting with our hiring process.

Babies produce a lot of.... data. On his recent parental leave, co-founder Ben Darnell built a side project to track his newborn's schedule via Fitbit.

Cockroach Lab's culture and workplace associate (aka Chief of Fun) waxes poetic on how we're keeping the team sane(ish) during COVID-19.