AI agents are no longer a thought experiment. They’re already writing code, calling APIs, retrying failed requests, and coordinating work at machine speed. And they’re about to put unprecedented pressure on the systems we use to store and move data.

Becca Weng

February 13, 2026

From retail investing and global card payments to large-scale lending, fintech platforms are being pushed to their limits. User expectations are rising, regulations are tightening, and transaction volumes are growing faster and more unpredictably than ever before. Across these domains, one theme is emerging clearly: traditional databases struggle to keep up with modern financial workloads at scale.

Becca Weng

February 2, 2026

Before AI workloads entered production en masse, infrastructural resilience was already key to mission-critical applications. But in 2026, resilience alone won’t be enough. The real challenge, one that’s already reshaping engineering priorities and strategic business initiatives is resilience at scale.

Becca Weng

January 29, 2026

When it comes to real-time applications, resilience isn't a nice-to-have, it’s a necessity. In this post, we’ll walk through a live demo designed to stress-test CockroachDB’s ability to detect anomalies in a stream of financial transactions. Along the way, we’ll simulate production traffic, observe latency under load, and scale our detection pipeline on the fly.

Becca Weng

January 26, 2026

Migrating a database is always a high-stakes operation. Downtime, data correctness, data loss, and customer experience are all on the line. Not to mention the business risk if a migration goes poorly. While there are a number of third-party tools that support data migration to CockroachDB, we have the expertise and insights into our product. We knew we could make migrations as efficient as possible in-house.

Becca Weng

January 21, 2026

Real-time AI isn’t a future ambition. It’s today’s business necessity. But powering fast, intelligent experiences in production takes more than just a good model. You need the right data infrastructure behind it.

Becca Weng

December 24, 2025

Every year, the holiday season puts extraordinary pressure on industries we rarely think of as seasonal powerhouses. While retailers dominate the headlines, there are many other companies that also quietly absorb the surge in traffic, transactions, and consumer expectation. Today we’ll focus on travel platforms, gambling and sportsbook operators, and fintech and payment providers. These sectors don’t just experience a bump; they face explosive, non-negotiable spikes that demand unwavering availability, real-time accuracy, and the ability to scale on command.

Becca Weng

December 23, 2025

As GenAI applications evolve from chat interfaces to autonomous agents, they are also introducing real infrastructure challenges. Model hallucinations, service outages, and scaling limitations are common blockers, especially for enterprise teams trying to move beyond proof of concept.

Becca Weng

December 16, 2025

This year the tech industry faced big changes: DORA regulations went into effect, the increasing adoption of AI and AI agents, and major outages. As our State of Resilience Report found earlier this year, organizations experience on average 86 outages each year. Within just one month, we saw critical services falter as AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare grappled with downtime. In 2025, the everyday consumer felt firsthand the impact of those outages: sites like X and ChatGPT malfunctioned, airlines suffered, and customer trust eroded.

Becca Weng

December 15, 2025