This article discusses the importance of data durability and availability in various industries, including financial services and streaming media. Data durability refers to the process of safeguarding data from loss or corruption in the event of an outage or failure, while data availability means that the data is operational and can be accessed when requested. The article highlights the consequences of vulnerable or slow data, citing examples such as a 73-hour outage at Roblox that resulted in an estimated $25 million in lost bookings, and how data durability and availability work together to create a perfect equation: uncompromised data plus uptime and accessibility. The article also touches on the importance of persistence configuration, database type, and other factors in measuring a database's resiliency against corruption from bit decay or loss.