RoachFest 2025 brought together a global community of architects, engineers, and innovators across London, Bengaluru, and Las Vegas to explore future-proofing database infrastructure with CockroachDB, focusing on scale, agility, and performance. The event featured technical sessions, customer stories, and product announcements, including the releases of CockroachDB 25.2 and 25.3, which highlighted advancements in performance, reliability, and security. Notable innovations included vector indexing for AI workloads and new tools for Oracle migrations. The event also introduced a new benchmarking methodology, "Performance under Adversity," which tests the resilience and high performance of distributed databases under real-world operational stressors. RoachFest emphasized the importance of reducing operational burdens and infrastructure costs, showcasing customer success stories from various industries and underlining modernization as a competitive advantage. Additionally, the event fostered community collaboration and insights into how distributed architectures are reshaping the enterprise database landscape, reinforcing CockroachDB's position as a foundation for next-generation applications.