# Becca Taft on Building CockroachDB Systems for Production Scale

DevFeed: [Becca Taft on Building CockroachDB Systems for Production Scale](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/building-distributed-systems-for-the-real-world-how-becca-taft-engineers-for-scale-23756.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://cockroachlabs.com/blog/building-distributed-systems-for-scale-becca-taft>)

Author: David Weiss

Published: 2026-04-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Cockroach Labs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cockroach-labs.md>)

Topics: [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/distributed-systems.md>), [CockroachDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cockroachdb.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>)

Tags: [cockroachdb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cockroachdb.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed-systems.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>)

## AI overview

A profile of Becca Taft, Director of Engineering at Cockroach Labs, covering her path into distributed databases and her work on CockroachDB's SQL layer. It discusses applying database theory to production systems that must handle diverse customer workloads without regressions.

## Source excerpt

When Becca Taft first sat in on one of Michael Stonebraker's research group meetings at MIT, she wasn't planning to work on databases.