30% of leaders say the database is the first point of failure in AI overload scenarios. That is not because teams chose the wrong cloud. It is not because they miscalculated capacity. It is because most traditional databases were built for a different era of computing. They were designed around vertical growth, predictable traffic, and human-paced interaction. AI breaks all three assumptions at once.

Becca Weng

March 10, 2026

Fintech is one of the most competitive and highly regulated industries in the world. Whether you’re a payment processor, digital-first bank, trading platform, or wallet provider, your infrastructure is directly tied to customer trust. In this environment, outages aren’t just technical incidents; a single missed transaction, delayed authorization, or moment of downtime can erode customer confidence instantly.

Becca Weng

February 25, 2026

In betting and gaming, growth is rarely gradual. Traffic spikes around major sporting events. Millions of real-time transactions hit your platform at once, and every one of them has to be correct. When the database falters, the consequences aren’t abstract. Revenue stops. Players lose trust. Regulators start asking questions.

Becca Weng

February 24, 2026

Every year at RoachFest, we hear directly from the teams running some of the most demanding data workloads in production. RoachFest 2025 was no different—except this year, a clear theme emerged across customer sessions: primary data and metadata are often mission-critical.

Becca Weng

February 18, 2026

83% of technology leaders believe their infrastructure will fail under AI pressure within two years. That number is not meant to provoke alarm. It’s simply a fact that reflects the forward-looking judgment of 1,125 global engineering and technology leaders who are already seeing stress where their systems were never designed to carry it.

Becca Weng

February 17, 2026

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