2025: Benchmarking for reality and building systems that last

In 2025, the tech landscape was marked by significant developments, including the implementation of DORA regulations, the rise of AI adoption, and notable infrastructure outages affecting major platforms like AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare. Cockroach Labs navigated this shifting environment by focusing on resilience and innovation, celebrating milestones such as their 10-year anniversary, introducing new leadership with CFO Sailesh Munagala, and expanding their database conference, RoachFest, globally. The company launched a novel database benchmark, "Performance under Adversity," to evaluate resilience against various failure scenarios, showcasing CockroachDB's superior performance and resilience compared to competitors like Oracle GDD. Significant product advancements included a 50% performance boost, reduced downtime, and the introduction of C-SPANN, a vector indexing solution optimized for AI applications. Partnerships with industry leaders like IBM and ISVs further reinforced CockroachDB's role as a foundational database for scalable, resilient architectures. As the era of agentic AI approaches, CockroachDB is positioned as a strategic enabler for organizations needing databases that can handle the demands of autonomous agents and scale effectively in a rapidly evolving digital world.

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