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Rob

Reid

Technical Evangelist

Cockroach Labs

Rob Reid is Cockroach Labs’ Technical Evangelist and a software developer from London, England. In his career, he has written backend, frontend, and messaging software for the police, travel, finance, commodities, sports betting, telecoms, retail, and aerospace industries. He is the author of *Practical CockroachDB: Building Fault-Tolerant Distributed SQL Databases* (Apress) and *Understanding Multi-Region Application Architecture* (O’Reilly) and has two CockroachDB tattoos.

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01 December 2026 12:00 - 12:30

Serialisable at machine speed: What Hhappens when thousands of agents write at once

As AI agents move from answering questions to taking action, they begin writing to shared data at a pace and scale most human workloads don’t reach. This session looks at what can go wrong when agents write in parallel from lost updates and broken rules to silent data corruption. We’ll explore what it takes to maintain serialisable consistency when database clients are no longer just people, but thousands of agents acting at once.