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AI Success, Infra Failure: Why Identity & Databases Are the Next Bottleneck

Discover how agentic AI workloads challenge traditional databases and identity layers—and how to build distributed infrastructure that scales.

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Mickey Martin

Head of Sales Engineering

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Isaac Wong

EVP, Engineering

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Rob Reid

Technical Evangelist

Handling traffic from human users is one thing. Handling traffic from thousands of autonomous AI agents authenticating and querying at the exact same time is a fundamentally different architectural challenge. As these agentic workloads scale, we are seeing the bottleneck shift. It's no longer the AI models causing the friction—it’s the legacy operational data and identity layers beneath them hitting their limits. We sat down with the engineering team at Cockroach Labs to look at this problem head-on. In this webinar, we examine what happens when traditional databases are pushed past their design constraints by non-human traffic, and what it takes to build distributed infrastructure that is actually "AI-ready."