CockroachDB's latest paper, presented at SIGMOD 2022, details advancements in multi-region database deployments, emphasizing a new Transaction Management protocol that enhances local, strongly consistent reads from any database replica. The paper showcases how CockroachDB simplifies configuration for multi-region applications by using a high-level declarative SQL syntax that translates data access locality and availability goals into practical database configurations, including replica placement and data partitioning. This innovation allows for linear scalability with the number of regions and significantly reduces tail latency, demonstrating improved performance for diverse workloads. The paper, a collaborative effort across various engineering domains at Cockroach Labs, will be presented by Nathan Vanbenschoten, with additional talks by the company's Senior Director of Engineering, Adam Storm, providing insights into the technology and culture of Cockroach Labs. The team also looks forward to participating in VLDB 2022 to further showcase these capabilities.