Dipti Joshi
Staff Product ManagerDipti Joshi is a Staff Product Manager at Cockroach Labs, where she drives the resilience and scalability roadmap for CockroachDB and its storage engine. A veteran of the database industry, she has successfully brought advanced database proxy and real-time analytics solutions to market — most notably guiding MariaDB’s MaxScale from initial concept to industry adoption and leading streaming analytics product strategy at Kinetica. Before moving into product management, Dipti spent a decade as a software engineer and architect.
Scale & Resilience
Ideal Isn't Real, But Improvement Is: CockroachDB's Resilience Enhanced in 25.2
Real-world database resilience is not about surviving under ideal conditions – it's about thriving when adversity strikes.
Dipti Joshi
July 22, 2025
Database Modernization
Scale & Resilience
Engineering
Ideal isn’t real: Stress testing CockroachDB’s resilience
In today’s always-on, global applications, raw speed is no longer enough. Modern enterprises demand not only blistering transaction rates but also unwavering stability when the unexpected strikes; whether that’s a network hiccup, a failing disk, or an entire data center going dark. With organizations averaging 86 outages a year, failures are the norm today. But traditional benchmarks like TPC-C only tell you how fast a database runs in perfect conditions, or sunny days. They leave out the more important story of what happens when things go wrong.
Dipti Joshi
June 11, 2025