---
title: "Q&A: Cockroach Labs’ Spencer Kimball on Distributing SQL"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/q-a-cockroach-labs-spencer-kimball-on-distributing-sql-jswxxsd9o
source_url: https://thenewstack.io/qa-cockroach-labs-spencer-kimball-on-distributing-sql/
type: article
source: "The New Stack"
published: 2024-02-16T19:43:28.015Z
updated: 2024-05-09T09:28:18.744Z
tags: ["backend", "cloud-native", "cockroachdb"]
reading_time: 10
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Q&A: Cockroach Labs’ Spencer Kimball on Distributing SQL

**[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Spencer Kimball, co-founder of Cockroach Labs, discusses the limitations of sharding databases, the development of CockroachDB to meet scalability requirements, and the importance of cloud portability.

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